"Narcotics have been systematically scapegoated and demonized. The idea that anyone can use drugs and escape a horrible fate is an … anathema to these idiots. I predict that in the near future, right wingers will use drug hysteria as a pretext to set up an international police apparatus."
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Gus Van Sant, in Hooked: Drug War Films in Britain, Canada, and the U.S., p. 198
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