"Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500,000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users."

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Source : "Nader Endorses Legal Marijuana". Associated Press, www.nytimes.com. September 09, 2000.

Ralph Nader

#Country Quotes #Jail Quotes #People Quotes

“Doing voice-over work is something that I love to do, and it is a lot of fun at the same time.”
“That's why so much of the music today sounds so much alike, because there's no in-between. So it's kind of nice to still turn some buttons every now and then.”
“One of the reasons I don't do social media is that I like the feeling that if somebody asks me for a picture on the street, I don't have to say yes.”
“Subject becoming less relevant, each painting having a life of its own, each stroke leading to the next. It is more about the connection of body and spirit to canvas, over mind to canvas.”
“The Titanic will protect itself.”
“I could care less about ever having a No. 1 single. I would just like to be able to play and have people who grow old with you, and you stay with them through their life. We've got a few sentences, maybe, to say what life's about. Hopefully, we'll get a chapter later.”
“I am not clear what the U.S. means when they use the term "entity." For us here in Taiwan, we believe that we are a country, a democratic country.”
“Choose a career you love and you will never have to go to work.”

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