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Quotes from The War On Drugs Is Lost — William F. Buckley Jr.

1925–2008 United States

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More people die every year as a result of the war against drugs than die from what we call, generically, overdosing.

The War On Drugs Is Lost (1995)

We can see that at free-market rates, $20 per week would provide the addict with the cocaine which, in this wartime drug situation, requires of him $1,000.

The War On Drugs Is Lost (1995)

The cost of the drug war is many times more painful, in all its manifestations, than would be the licensing of drugs combined with intensive education of non-users and intensive education designed to warn those who experiment with drugs.

The War On Drugs Is Lost (1995)

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