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Of course drugs were fun.
-Anjelica Huston
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Which is better: to have fun with fungi or to have Idiocy with ideology, to have wars because of words, to have tomorrow's misdeeds out of yesterday's miscreeds?
-Aldous Huxley
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If we could sniff or swallow something that would, for five or six hours each day, abolish our solitude as individuals, atone us with our fellows in a glowing exaltation of affection and make life in all its aspects seem not only worth living, but divinely beautiful and significant, and if this heavenly, world-transfiguring drug were of such a kind that we could wake up next morning with a clear head and an undamaged constitution -- then, it seems to me, all our problems (and not merely the one small problem of discovering a novel pleasure) would be wholly solved and earth would become paradise.
-Aldous Huxley
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Science and art are only too often a superior kind of dope, possessing this advantage over booze and morphia: that they can be indulged in with a good conscience and with the conviction that, in the process of indulging, one is leading the higher life
-Aldous Huxley
Ends and Means, ch. 14 (1937)
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To punish drug takers is like a drunk striking the bleary face it sees in the mirror. Drugs will not be brought under control until society itself changes, enabling men to use them as primitive man did: welcoming the visions they provided not as fantasies, but as intimations of a different, and important, level of reality.
-Brian Inglis
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Drugs are reality's legal loopholes.
-Jeremy P. Johnson
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Experimenting with drugs is like target practice where your head is the bull
-Michael Josephson
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If you can remember anything about the sixties, you weren't really there.
-Paul Kantner
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Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
-Rudyard Kipling
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Pharma industry is the art of making billions from milligrams.
-Gerhard Kocher
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The real question is why are millions of people so unhappy, so bored, so unfulfilled, that they are willing to drink, snort, inject or inhale any substance that might blot out reality and give them a bit of temporary relief.
-Ann Landers
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I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
-Fran Lebowitz
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The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?
-John Lennon
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The worst drugs are as bad as anybody's told you. It's just a dumb trip, which I can't condemn people if they get into it, because one gets into it for one's own personal, social, emotional reasons. It's something to be avoided if one can help it.
-John Lennon
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Did you know that the White House drug test is multiple choice?
-Rush Limbaugh
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One's condition on marijuana is always existential. One can feel the importance of each moment and how it is changing one. One feels one's being, one becomes aware of the enormous apparatus of nothingness -- the hum of a hi-fi set, the emptiness of a pointless interruption, one becomes aware of the war between each of us, how the nothingness in each of us seeks to attack the being of others, how our being in turn is attacked by the nothingness in others.
-Norman Mailer
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I learned why they're called wonder drugs -- you wonder what they'll do to you.
-Harlan Miller
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Is marijuana addictive? Yes, in the sense that most of the really pleasant things in life are worth endlessly repeating.
-Richard Neville
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Marijuana is self-punishing. It makes you acutely sensitive, and in this world, what worse punishment could there be?
-P. J. O'Rourke
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No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the sources of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
-P. J. O'Rourke
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Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
-P. J. O'Rourke
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The addictive experience is the totality of effect produced by an involvement; it stems from pharmacological and physiological sources, but takes its ultimate form from cultural and individual constructions of experience.
-Stanton Peele
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Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh just, subtle, and mighty opium!
-Thomas De Quincey
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Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.
-Ronald Reagan
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I tried to give up drugs by drinking.
-Lou Reed
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