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Quote from David B. Kopel,

"[T]he drug prohibition laws have led to wholesale destruction of civil liberties. The War on Drugs has now become a War on the Constitution, and the American people have become, in the eyes of their government, a society of suspects."



By:

David B. Kopel (more quotes by David B. Kopel or books by/about David B. Kopel)


American author, attorney, political science researcher. contributing editor to several publications

Source:

Crime and Punishment Symposium: A System in Collapse: Peril or Protection? The Risks and Benefits of Handgun Prohibition, 12 ST. LOUIS U. PUB. L. REV. 285, 319 (1993).

Categories:

Constitution, Drugs, Liberty, Oppression, Prohibition, War

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