John Kaplan quotes
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“Drug offenses ... may be regarded as the prototypes of non-victim crimes today. The private nature of the sale and use of these drugs has led the police to resort to methods of detection and surveillance that intrude upon our privacy, including illegal search, eavesdropping, and entrapment. Indeed, the successful prosecution of such cases often requires police infringement of the constitutional protections that safeguard the privacy of individuals.”
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“We simply do not catch a high enough percentage of users to make the law a real threat, although we do catch enough to seriously overburden our legal system.”
-- John Kaplan
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“Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.”
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Source : "Uncommon Law". Book by A. P. Herbert. Chapter "Is It a Free Country?", 1935.
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“In keeping people straight, principle is not as powerful as a policeman.”
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Source : "Angela Davis: 'There is an unbroken line of police violence in the US that takes us all the way back to the days of slavery" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. December 14, 2014.
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Source : Aaron T. Beck, Fred D. Wright, Cory F. Newman, Bruce S. Liese (2011). “Cognitive Therapy of Substance Abuse”, p.47, Guilford Press
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“Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.”
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