Nadelmann Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nobody tells the history of marijuana and its prohibition like Russ Belville does. He has a special talent for presenting scholarship in a remarkably engaging way. That's why I turned to Russ when I needed someone to present on the subject to the annual staff retreat of the Drug Policy Alliance. And it's why I repeatedly recommend him for speaking and media opportunities. He's good! — Ethan Nadelmann

In claiming that prohibition, not the drugs themselves, is the problem, Nadelmann and many others - even policemen - have said that "the war on drugs is lost." But to demand a yes or no answer to the question "Is the war against drugs being won?" is like demanding a yes or no answer to the question "Have you stopped beating your wife yet?" Never can an unimaginative and fundamentally stupid metaphor have exerted a more baleful effect upon proper thought. — Theodore Dalrymple

I'm not fighting for the Marlboro-ization of marijuana. — Ethan Nadelmann

Ethan Nadelmann, one of the leading drug reformers in the United States, had explained: People overdose because [under prohibition] they don't know if the heroin is 1 percent or 40 percent ... Just imagine if every time you picked up a bottle of wine, you didn't know whether it was 8 percent alcohol or 80 percent alcohol [or] if every time you took an aspirin, you didn't know if it was 5 milligrams or 500 milligrams. — Johann Hari

The worst prohibition, it must be said, is a prohibition on thinking - and that, sadly, is what the U.S. government is guilty of today. — Ethan Nadelmann

We won't win until the average parent believes drug reform protects kids better than the war on drugs. — Ethan Nadelmann

If the principal smokers of cocaine were affluent older white men and the principal users of Viagra were young black men, using Viagra would land you time behind bars. — Ethan Nadelmann