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The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.

— Gary Johnson

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✓Similar Perspectives

By bringing about a rational drug policy, we'd be freeing up a lot of resources for real crime. Drug disputes would get played out with courts rather than with guns. So it would make this country a much better place overnight.

— Gary Johnson

You wanna get rid of drug crime in this country? Fine, let's just get rid of all the drug laws.

— Ron Paul

Instead of saying we need to outlaw certain types of weapons, we need to find better ways to enforce current law.

— Gene Green

I know why we can't have a frank discussion with our policymakers - if you're in the government or in law enforcement you cannot acknowledge that drugs are anything but inherently evil and morally wrong.

— Steven Soderbergh

It has become much more difficult to smuggle dangerous substances across our borders over the past three years, and this is creating real problems for drug traffickers.

— John Walters

Although our war on drugs must be fortified with the best laws, enforcement efforts and resources, we would not be successful without your individual commitment to this cause.

— Mel Carnahan

Laws against things like drugs are inhumane, and create an inhumane society and inhumane law enforcement. I know what's causing violence in America - the damn drug laws.

— Michael Moriarty

Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.

— Ronald Reagan

Casual drug users should be taken out and shot.

— Daryl Gates

✗Opposing Perspectives

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.

— Larry Elder