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“The so called War on Drugs has not succeeded in making significant reductions in drug use, drug arrests or violence. We are pouring huge amounts of our public resources into this current effort that are bleeding our public treasury and unnecessarily undermining human potential [...] We should be investing dollars in programs and strategies that work not just to lower crime but work to empower lives.”

—Mayor Cory Booker lashes out against the failed drug war.

“What most of us don't think about, because it doesn't effect us directly, is all the things that putting someone in jail for drugs does to that person, to that family, to the community they come from. It's shattering. They have a problem, they're involved in drug abuse. So they're hurting themselves, they're self-medicating, because they're poor or in pain or some other reason. So we come to them and say "I understand your pain and I'm going to give you a lot more pain now. I'm gonna put you in jail. I'm going to make the rest of your life a slippery slope that you can't get out of. And then let's see how you pull yourself up by your bootstraps and show us some personal responsibility.”

—Eugene Jarecki, director of “The House I Live In” 
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