Drug Education Quotes

Yes, cannabis is dangerous, but no more than other perfectly legal drugs. It's time for a rethink

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

I wasn't understanding enough about drug addition. No one seemed to know much about drug addiction. Things like LSD were all new. No one knew the harm. People thought cocaine was good for you.

What I support is a whole different approach with regard to drug use, and that is spending less money on the prosecution and incarceration side and more money on prevention and education, which I know works.

Anyone who advocates pill testing is giving the green light to drugs. That is absolutely unacceptable.

The use of methamphetamines has become pervasive in our country, and especially in rural areas.

Under the leadership of President Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the Department of Justice is delivering results. Many federal, state, and local agencies are working with us to combat opioid addiction.

We need to repeal the whole war on drugs. It isn’t working. We have already spent over $400 billion since the early 1970s, and it is wasted money

Major League Baseball is doing everything to make the game as clean as possible.

Officers can't use drugs. The citizens of this city must have a feel—knowledge—that their police officers are drug free.

While we must ensure that these dangerous new drugs and precursors do not get in the hands of children or others who would use them improperly, we must also be aware that these same drugs have legitimate uses.

Like I said in my election manifesto - why don't they legalise the whole thing and let people like me work?

I have smoked marijuana, but I no longer do. I went to art school in the 1960s so you can imagine what was going on. Yet my friends were the ones who said, "No, no, no, David, don't take those drugs." I was pretty lucky.

And in fact, one of the central reasons why I never got involved with any drugs or anything is that I remember talking to people in maybe 1975 who saw Hendrix but couldn't remember it. I was like, 'How could that be?'

… in light of the president's newfound boldness in speaking out about the unfairness of marijuana prohibition enforcement, he should take the opportunity to significantly reform federal marijuana policy and rearrange the agencies that have mismanaged it for so long.

In short: just say NO TO DRUGS, and maybe you won't end up like the Hurd people.

We cannot conceive of a society that is worth building ... on the basis of a drug culture.

Drug education is the only vaccine we have against the danger of drug abuse of our children.

Up with hope, down with dope

It is designed to place the entire interstate traffic in the habit forming drugs under the administration of the Treasury Department. It is the opinion of the American Opium Commission that it would bring this whole traffic and the use of these drugs into the light of day and thereby create a public opinion against the use of them that would be more important, perhaps, than the Act itself.

There's so much talk about the drug generation and songs about drugs. That's stupid. They aren't songs about drugs; they're about life.

We are never going to lick this problem of the drug traffic until we get the addicts off the streets of this country. They have got to be taken off the streets

Drugs have taught an entire generation of kids the metric system

Teen drug use went up dramatically in the 1990s.

I don't do drugs. I don't like drugs.