When you have a war, there's going to be casualties, and there's going to be collateral damage. ... None of this would be happening if we ended the prohibition on drugs the way we ended the prohibition on alcohol.

Since 1970, we've spent more than a trillion dollars on this war and all we have to show for it each year is we arrest another 1.6 million people in this country for nonviolent drug offenses. Fully half are marijuana arrests.

The war on drugs has been too long and too disgustingly failed and far too destructive.

The war on drugs is not only a dismal failure, but it's a terribly destructive policy.

This thing is an enormous fiasco, ... really undermines its legitimacy, and this result guarantees the guerrilla war will go on.

If you're in a war, instead of throwing a hand grenade at the enemy, throw one of those small pumpkins. Maybe it'll make everyone think how stupid war is, and while they are thinking, you can throw a real grenade at them.