Quote by Milton Friedman
If even a small fraction of the money we now spend on trying to en

If even a small fraction of the money we now spend on trying to enforce drug prohibition were devoted to treatment and drug rehabilitation, in an atmosphere of compassion not punishment, the reduction in drug usage and in the harm done to users could be dramatic. – Milton Friedman

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A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. – Milton Friedman

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There seems to be no stopping drug frenzy once it takes hold of a nation. What starts with an innocuous HUGS, NOT DRUGS bumper sticker soon leads to wild talk of shooting dealers and making urine tests a condition for employment — anywhere. – Barbara Ehrenreich

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It is difficult to live without opium after having known it because it is difficult, after knowing opium, to take earth seriously. And unless one is a saint, it is difficult to live without taking earth seriously. – Jean Cocteau

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I tried marijuana once. I did not inhale. – William Jefferson Clinton

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Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh, just, subtle, and mighty opium! – Thomas De Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, Part II

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What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives? – E. M. Forster

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