"We cannot eradicate global drug markets, but we can certainly regulate them as we have done with alcohol and tobacco markets. Drug abuse, alcoholism and tobacco should be treated as public health problems, not criminal justice issues."

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Source : "We have to find new solutions to Latin America's drugs nightmare" by Otto Pérez Molina, www.theguardian.com. April 7, 2012.

Otto Perez Molina

#Issues Quotes #Justice Quotes #Alcohol Quotes

“Clothes are designed for the media, because it's a great show.”
“The world we live in is a world of mingled good and evil. Whether it is chiefly good or chiefly bad depends on how we take it. To look at the world in such a way as to emphasize the evil is the art of pessimism. To look at it in such a way as to bring out the good, and throw the evil into the background, is the art of optimism. The facts are the same in either case. It is simply a question of perspective and emphasis.”
“There is no excuse for waste, fraud, and abuse in the Defense Department budget.”
“It is the brushwork of the right value and color which should produce the drawing.”
“In Paris they have special wheelchairs that go through every doorway. They don't change the doorways, they change the wheelchairs. To hell with the people! If someone weighs a couple more pounds, that's it!”
“The greatest grand challenge for any scientist is discovering how to prevent the spread of HIV and finding the cure or an effective vaccine for AIDS.”
“War is a dead end, literally. And, what is more, we simply can't afford it. Not morally, and not financially. How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the same one they were living in until it was foreclosed?”
“habits are happiness of a sort...”

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