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2014 June 20
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"As a first-time drug law offender,
I was sentenced to
27 non-parolable years in prison.
The amount of time was based on
liquid waste found in the garage
and unprocessed chemicals.
There were no drugs." |
"Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime
than any of those committed by its victims." |
"[The prison guards are] capable of committing daily atrocities
and obscenities, smiling the smile of the angels all the while." |
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2014 June 19
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"People crushed by law have no hope but from power.
If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws;
and those who have much to hope and nothing to lose
will always be dangerous..." |
"I agree that marijuana laws are overdue for an overhaul. I also favor the medical use of marijuana -- if it's prescribed by a physician. I cannot understand why the federal government should interfere with the doctor-patient relationship, nor why it would ignore the will of a majority of voters who have legally approved such legislation." |
"Far from a simple attempt to rid the nation of crime and drugs,
our policy against narcotics -- like any public policy --
comes with strings attached. And increasingly these strings
are constricting around the necks of Americans' lives and liberties." |
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2014 June 18
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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." |
"You can only protect your liberties in this world
by protecting the other man's freedom.
You can only be free if I am free." |
"Attack another’s rights and you destroy your own." |
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2014 June 17
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"Of course drugs were fun. And that's what's so stupid about
anti-drug campaigns: they don't admit that. I can't say I feel
particularly scarred or lessened by my experimentation with drugs.
They've gotten a very bad name." |
"I believe that if people would learn to use LSD's vision-inducing
capability more wisely, under suitable conditions, in medical practice
and in conjunction with meditation, then in the future this
problem-child could become a wonderchild." |
"In questions of science the authority of a thousand
is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual." |
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2014 June 16
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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." |
"It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need
to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more
baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more
alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts. " |
"It is bad to be oppressed by a minority,
but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority." |
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