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 – Inside the Underground Economy: Tycoons, Technology, and Power

“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 – Inside the Underground Economy: Tycoons, Technology, and Power

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