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Drug prohibition is unwise social policy for many reasons, most obviously because forbidden fruit tastes sweeter: that is, because one of the easiest ways for a person (especially a young person) to assert his autonomy is by defying authority (especially arbitrary and hypocritical authority). (Thomas Szasz)

The Soviet government censors the press; hence, the Russians have a samizdat (underground) press--which American presidents interpret as proof of the spiritual invincibility of the free market. The American government censors "substances" (drugs); hence, the Americans have a samizdat (underground) pharmacopoeia--which American presidents interpret as proof of the subversion of the free market by greedy "drug lords" and hostile foreign governments. (Thomas Szasz)

Psychedelic drugs cause paranoia, confusion, and total loss of reality in politicians who've never taken them. (Anonymous)

Вот еще:

To prohibit what one cannot enforce is to degrade both authority and obedience, thus undermining respect for both law and decency. To prohibit suicide is thus the ultimate folly, and the ultimate indecency. (Thomas Szasz)

Все это, вероятно, взято из книги The Untamed Tongue: A Dissenting Dictionary.

И еще:

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them. (Thomas Jefferson)

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. (Thomas Jefferson)

Это все такие утилитарные аргументы против запрета коммунистов (или нацистов) с их газетами. Не знаю, что еще тут можно добавить.

ДОБАВЛЕНИЕ. Еще одну цитату можно добавить.

Our children are taught false information about drugs and addiction. They are the targets of scare tactics by anti-drug fundamentalists. We know that many children discount anything adults tell them about the dangers of drug use. That's because children know that much of what they're taught is false. [...] In other words, by teaching certain myths about drugs in often coercive ways, e.g., that drugs are universally-addicting substances and that drug users are sick, anti-drug propagandists succeed in teaching children something completely different from what they originally intended to teach them, i.e., that people cannot hurt themselves with drugs. (Jeffrey Schaler)