"Very few ever leave. Their drug heaven is too cozy.”
-"How can you let these people kill themselves under the guise of government?”
“As I have tried to indicate before, we are not here to judge how they want to use their freedom except that we insist that it be done responsibly. When a person chooses a drugged life we don't think it's very responsible but as long as they are not interfering with other people's lifes' choices we accept it. And as I keep reminding you, we are all going to die. If someone wants to die earlier from a cocaine overdose that is their choice. Of course you would say it is not a rational choice, and I would agree with you. But so far in human history we have not been able to keep a whole society drug-free, consequently to reduce the impact on the psychologically healthy population we allow drug users an easy path to pleasure.
“A number of years ago we heard about drug clinics in Vancouver, San Francisco and a number of other cities in the world that allowed drug addicts to inject heroin, cocaine or other drugs under the supervision of nurses. They did this to cut the number of drug overdoses and to reduce the amount of Hepatitis C and HIV transferred. We just did it to get them off the street. Eight countries already have such facilities. But I don't really care whether the addicts live or die. They certainly aren’t living responsible lives.”
-" I saw that the RAND Corporation said that legalizing marijuana would cut the street price. And the former president of Mexico, Vicente Fox, now advocates legalizing drugs because he thinks drug use is better than the murdering has been going on in Mexico. So maybe there is a solution that our country can use somewhere. We certainly haven’t found one so far.”
-"How would you handle drinking, Tyler? You probably heard that Russia has about 40,000 alcohol poisoning deaths a year and that the average man's lifespan is only about 60 years. It seems that there are several countries in East Europe that are as high as the Russians, consuming 16 to 18 liters of pure alcohol per person per year. While the US is high, it is a little more than half of the Russian rate.”
"Like I said, if they are problems to other people, such as driving drunk, we can take them into our drug houses. If they won't do that, we put them in prison. They're free to drink, but they can't harm others because of their drinking. That includes traffic accidents, spousal or child abuse, a poor safety record at work, or any other socially negative actions. If they drink from the time they get home until midnight, then wake up sober and do a good job at work, there is no problem.”
THE BEST FORM OF GOVERNMENT?
-"Well Tyler, you have seen a little bit of the world, what do you think is the best form of government?