Reefer Madness Quotes

“A public outcry usually masks a private obsession.”
― Eric Schlosser, Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market

“The current demand for marijuana and pornography is deeply revealing. Here are two commodities that Americans publicly abhor, privately adore, and buy in astonishing amounts.”
― Eric Schlosser, Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market

“Americans not only smoke more marijuana but also imprison more people for marijuana than any other western industrialized nation.”
― Eric Schlosser, Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market

“Today approximately three-quarters of all $100 bills circulate outside the United States.”
― Eric Schlosser, Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market

“To know a country you must see it whole.”
― Eric Schlosser, Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market

“Public lotteries are essentially regressive taxes imposed on the poor.”
― Eric Schlosser, Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market