James Toback Quotes

Too many whites are getting away with drug use...Too many whites are getting away with drug sales...The answer is to go out and find the ones who are getting away with it, convict them and send them up the river, too.

There's a big difference between somebody who does acid on weekends and somebody who takes downers every day.

I am fed up with a system which busts the pot smoker and lets the big dope racketeer go free.

Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system.

I just think it's shocking how many of these young people wind up in prison and they get turned into hardcore criminals because they had a possession of a very small amount of controlled substance.

Should someone go to jail for just doing drugs? I believe the time has come for that to end.

My relationship in the past with alcohol has been both good fun and unhealthy.

If you're a drug addict, often you're stealing - I've gotten done for shoplifting a few times.

If you're a drug addict, then you've always got drugs, so you're a criminal. So you're gonna get into problems.

We're already going down that path with illegal drug use and incarceration. I can't imagine it getting any worse.

I was covering up for the fact that I was doing drugs. It was a very weird lifestyle.

I had a lot of it in my day, but I don't like it. It's a dumb drug. Your whole concentration goes on getting the next fix. I find caffeine easier to deal with.

We have to do more about addiction, not only drugs, but also alcohol.

He thought that in the history of the world it might even be that there was more punishment than crime but he took small comfort from it.

I hear heroin is a very popular drug these days.

Have you ever tried sugar or PCP?

Smoking crack is a way for people who couldn't afford college to study the works of Charles Darwin.

I need not pause to explain that crime is not a disease. It is criminology that is a disease.

I've been a practicing alcoholic and drug addict for most of my life.

All people make mistakes. All of us are sinners. All of us are criminals. All of us violate the law at some point in our lives. In fact, if the worst thing you have ever done is speed ten miles over the speed limit on the freeway, you have put yourself and others at more risk of harm than someone smoking marijuana in the privacy of his or her living room. Yet there are people in the United States serving life sentences for first-time drug offenses, something virtually unheard of anywhere else in the world.

Why do we put people who are on drugs in jail? They're sick, they're not criminals. Sick people don't get healed in prison. You see? It makes no sense.

It's cool because you get to see that some of these women are there because they should be. They're actually not good people to be in society. And then, other people are there because they just made a really retarded mistake.

I've been doing a lot of drugs in the last few weeks and drinking less, and I feel much better.

Pot is to narcotics what herpes is to social diseases; it doesn't count cos it's not really dangerous and it's too easy to get.

I've had my fills of cocaine and pills.