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2006 August 11
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"The goal of legalizing drugs is to bring them under effective legal control. If it were legal to produce and distribute drugs, legitimate businessmen would enter the business. There would be less need for violence and corruption since the industry would have access to the courts. And, instead of absorbing tax dollars as targets of expensive enforcement efforts, the drug sellers might begin to pay taxes. So, legalization might well solve the organized crime aspects of the drug trafficking problem. On average, drug use under legalization might not be as destructive to users and to society as under the current prohibition, because drugs would be less expensive, purer, and more conveniently available." |
"The victim to too severe a law
is considered as a martyr
rather than a criminal." |
"Everything is destroyed by its own particular vice: the destructive power resides within. Rust destroys iron, moths destroy clothes, the worm eats away the wood; but greatest of all evils is envy, impious habitant of corrupt souls, which ever was, is, and shall be a consuming disease." |
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2006 August 10
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"One topic that has only recently begun to attract attention is the Nazi anti-tobacco movement. Germany had the world's strongest antismoking movement in the 1930s and early 1940s, supported by Nazi medical and military leaders worried that tobacco might prove a hazard to the race. Many Nazi leaders were vocal opponents of smoking. Anti-tobacco activists pointed out that whereas Churchill, Stalin, and Roosevelt were all fond of tobacco, the three major fascist leaders of Europe -- Hitler, Mussolini, and Franco -- were all non-smokers." |
"The German woman does not smoke!" |
"When choosing between two evils
I always like to take the one
I've never tried before." |
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2006 August 09
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"Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." |
"If you are young and you drink a great deal
it will spoil your health, slow your mind,
make you fat -- in other words,
turn you into an adult." |
"Many politicians... are in the habit of laying it down as
a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till
they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool...
who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim." |
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2006 August 08
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"Marijuana never kicks down your door in the middle of the night.
Marijuana never locks up sick and dying people,
does not suppress medical research,
does not peek in bedroom windows.
Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation
of the prohibitionists at face value,
marijuana prohibition has done far more harm
to far more people than marijuana ever could." |
"The basic test of freedom is perhaps less
in what we are free to do than in
what we are free not to do." |
"The voice of the majority is no proof of justice." |
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2006 August 07
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"After fifty years as a Prohibitionist, I am more convinced than ever that we need a good party, not just good men and good women. Most public officials are united in the war against terrorism. They, like we, are outraged at the deaths of some 3,000 Americans on September 11. Yet, most are willing to give unqualified support to the traffic in liquor and tobacco in exchange for campaign cash. Those products jointly claim at least 600,000 American lives each year. Two hundred die each year from use of alcohol and tobacco for every one who died in the September 11 attacks. Need another reason for being a Prohibitionist?" |
"The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the Prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this country is closely connected with this." |
"You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline --
it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons,
but at the very least you need a beer." |
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