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2008 April 25
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"In Europe, when tobacco was first introduced,
it was immediately banned. In Turkey, if you
got caught with tobacco, you had your nose slit.
China and Russia imposed the death penalty
for possession of tobacco." |
"Whenever the offence inspires
less horror than the punishment,
the rigour of penal law is obliged
to give way to the common feelings
of mankind." |
"Government should allow persons to engage in whatever conduct they want
to, no matter how deviant or abnormal it may be, so long as
(a) they know what they are doing,
(b) they consent to it, and
(c) no one -- at least no one other than the participants -- is harmed
by it." |
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2008 April 24
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"While the collateral consequences of drugs such as cocaine
are indisputably severe, they are not unlike those
which flow from the misuse of other, legal, substances." |
"The prohibition law,
written for weaklings and derelicts,
has divided the nation,
like Gaul, into three parts --
wets, drys, and hypocrites." |
"The whole principle is wrong. It's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't eat steak." |
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2008 April 23
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"Should we believe self-serving, ever-growing drug enforcement/drug
treatment bureaucrats, whose pay and advancement depends on finding more
and more people to arrest and 'treat'? More Americans die in just one
day in prisons, penitentiaries, jails and stockades than have ever died
from marijuana throughout history. Who are they protecting? From what?" |
"What we have to remember is that not everything is under our control. If people are free in any meaningful sense of the word, that means they are at liberty to foul up their lives as much as make something grand of them. That's a gamble we all take. That's the risk of liberty. Nobody wants others to screw up their lives, but each must be free to do so for themselves." |
"We Americans have no commission from God to police the world." |
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2008 April 22
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"Marihuana is a more dangerous drug than heroin or cocaine. I am surprised to learn that certain police officers have been inclined to minimize the effects of the use of marihuana. They would, I am sure, be convinced that the drug is adhering to its Old World traditions of murder, assault, rape, physical demoralization, and mental breakdown. A study of the effects of marihuana shows clearly that it is a dangerous drug, and Bureau records prove that its use is associated with insanity and crime." |
"Marijuana leads to homosexuality ... and therefore to AIDS." |
"There are 100,000 total marijuana smokers in the US,
and most are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos and entertainers.
Their Satanic music, jazz and swing, result from marijuana usage.
This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations
with Negroes, entertainers and any others." |
"Marihuana influences Negroes to look at white people in the eye,
step on white men's shadows and look at a white woman twice." |
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2008 April 21
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"One of the problems that the marijuana reform movement consistently faces is that everyone wants to talk about what marijuana does, but no one ever wants to look at what marijuana prohibition does. 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." |
"A prohibition law strikes a blow
at the very principles upon which
our government was founded." |
"If the words 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn't worth the hemp it was written on." |
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