There's a sense that the drug war has proven its failure. Five or six years ago, people would say, "Well, we haven't really tried it." It's hard to say that with credibility any more. People tend to get bored with old ideas. and the war on drugs is becoming an old idea. There's a kind of natural pendulum or circularity, where people begin to think that change is inevitable. And that's going to happen in the drug area.


Mind Alteration, an article published in Reason Magazine in July 1994. - The War on Drugs

Ethan Nadelmann Quotes

There's a sense that the drug war has proven its failure. Five or six years ago, people would say, Well, we haven't really tried it. It's hard to say ...

There's a sense that the drug war has proven its failure. Five or six years ago, people would say, Well, we haven't really tried it. It's hard to say ...

There's a sense that the drug war has proven its failure. Five or six years ago, people would say, Well, we haven't really tried it. It's hard to say ...

There's a sense that the drug war has proven its failure. Five or six years ago, people would say, Well, we haven't really tried it. It's hard to say ...