The War on Drugs is the perfect substitute for the Cold War. We can continue to pursue policies that don’t work on the cheerful assumption that if we just do more of what doesn’t work, it will solve the problem.

Molly Ivins (1944-2007) American writer, political columnist [Mary Tyler Ivins]

Essay (1990-02), “The Czar is Hooked,” The Progressive
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Collected in Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She? (1991).