“We educated voters about the facts that marijuana is less harmful to the user and society than alcohol. To prohibit adults from making the rational, safer choice to use marijuana is bad public policy.”
Mason Tvert
“Instead of warning pregnant women not to drink, I think female alcoholics should be told not to fuck”
George Carlin
“No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.”
P. J. O'Rourke
“Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts.”
Finley Peter Dunne
“Underage and pathological drinkers are the alcohol industry's most valuable customers. It is reckless for our society to rely on an industry with such an enormous interest in alcohol consumption by children, teens, alcoholics and alcohol abusers to curb such drinking.”
Joseph Califano
“You can see the damage that alcohol is doing to our society. People get pissed up and go out looking for a fight. You get nice and stoned, you go out looking for Mars bars.”
Nick Craston
“To reduce alcohol consumption by pregnant women, there needs to be a government-society approach to the issue, rather than simply regarding it as a health problem.”
Lucy Burns