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“In a legal market, drug suppliers would be pressured to supply quality products and would face economic and legal consequences if they did not.”

— Dr. Benjamin Powell, Economist

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February 9, 2026 at 5:14 PM
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“If the goal is to bankrupt the underground market and get people to stop using contaminated drugs, legal access has to be viable and competitive with the underground market.”

— Christina Dent, End It For Good

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February 4, 2026 at 7:28 PM
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“When #government coercion is used to promote virtue, there cannot be #liberty.”

— Dr. Walter E. Williams, Economist

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January 27, 2026 at 7:45 PM
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January 23, 2026 at 7:37 PM
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“When national Alcohol #Prohibition ended, many localities passed their own bans on liquor. Bootleggers sometimes financed the campaigns to ban liquor. Their profits depended on liquor being illegal.”

— Dr. Thomas Sowell, Economist

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January 21, 2026 at 6:30 PM
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“#Truth is the first casualty of #war, and the #warondrugs is no different. Every day both the print and broadcast media bombard the public with a perspective and narrative which has proved to be devastating.”

— Dominic Milton Trott

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January 14, 2026 at 6:42 PM
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“People #overdose because under #Prohibition they don't know if the heroin is 1 percent or 40 percent. Just imagine if every time you took an aspirin, you didn't know if it was 5 milligrams or 500 milligrams.”

— Ethan Nadelmann

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January 12, 2026 at 7:33 PM
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“Thanks to the #WaronDrugs, most #police departments in America now possess weapons systems that an infantry battalion would not employ in an enemy city with civilians present.”

— Dr. Michael Hicks, Economist

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January 7, 2026 at 4:58 PM
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“Death, disease, crime, addiction, broken families, devastated lives. Prohibition causes or incentivizes all of these, but it has gone on for so many decades that it feels like the natural state of things.”

— Christina Dent, End It For Good

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January 5, 2026 at 4:59 PM
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“Now is the time for ministers of Parliament to start writing rules for the new legal market, so we can finally take back control from the #criminal #gangs.”

— Nick Clegg, former UK Deputy Prime Minister

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December 30, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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“Penal reformers have long claimed that ‘#prisons don’t work.’ This is only partly true: for drug #cartels, #prison works brilliantly. #Jails provide a place to hire and train new members.”

— Tom Wainwright

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December 29, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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“#Cartels looking to find potential employees could hardly come up with a more perfect solution than a #prison: a place full of #criminals, with nothing much to do and no job lined up for after their release.”

— Tom Wainwright

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December 22, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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“The statistics are clear: this is a #war on the #poor and #minorities.”

— Noam Chomsky

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December 17, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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“#Druguse, legal and illegal, is principally a #health problem which is best dealt with not by driving it underground with #prohibition tactics, but by having it out in the open to allow for #treatment and #education.”

— United States Court of Appeals Judge Juan Torruella

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December 15, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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“I have estimated statistically that the #prohibition of #drugs produces 10,000 #homicides a year. It’s a moral problem that the #government is going around killing 10,000 people a year.”

—Dr. Milton Friedman, Nobel Laureate in Economics

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December 10, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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“It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of #crime in this country is closely connected with #Prohibition.”

—Albert Einstein

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December 9, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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December 8, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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“Drug consumption rooms have the potential to offer information about #harmreduction and #treatment, to decrease #overdose [and #disease], and reduce the negative impact on neighborhoods.”

—Dr. Matthew Frei and Dr. Alex Wodak

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December 2, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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“Instead of being shielded, our children are being recruited into a lifestyle of drug selling and drug usage by the current system.”

—*Judge James P. Gray, Why Our Drug Laws Have Failed*, p. 2.

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November 24, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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November 21, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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November 20, 2025 at 9:30 PM