Bruce Mirken Quotations

People are going to jail who are not harming anybody. The city is potentially clogging up local courts and jails with no reason to believe it will accomplish anything but waste tax dollars.

The approach we've taken in Nevada is that what we need is a system of regulation, not the Wild West, which is what we have now under prohibition. The message is to treat it the same as we treat alcohol.

Year after year they roll out ad campaigns that attempt to demonize marijuana. They consider it the number one drug threat in America. That always struck us as bizarre.

Unlike occasional marijuana use, binge drinking can actually kill you.

With so many having tried marijuana, it would be bizarre not to expect that reality wouldn't be depicted in films and on TV.

Prohibition doesn't work, and again, they've put the evidence right there showing that responsible regulation has hugely reduced cigarette use.

For anybody who would underestimate SAFER, I would say a lot of people underestimated them in Denver.