“The drug culture has shaped at least one major change since the Sixties; It became the basis for overloading our prisons.” CultureDrugMajorsBasesPrisonSixtyMajor ChangeDrug Culture Author:Jimmy Carter
“Mood reflects the biology of the brain. How you feel is affected by the chemicals in the brain, and these are the same chemicals that form the basis of mood-altering drugs. You may use yoga, meditation, cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) or exercise to alter your mood, or revert to healthy eating, regular exercise and getting enough sleep.” FeelsMayEnoughUseFormSleepBrainMeditationExerciseHealthyDrugEatingYogaBasesMoodTherapyBiologyAffectedChemicalsBehaviourHow You FeelCognitiveHealthy EatingYoga MeditationEnough SleepRegular Exercise Author:Liz Miller
“Marcel Eliade took the position that hallucinogenic shamanism was decadent, and Gordon Wasson, very rightly I believe, contravened this view and held that actually it was very probably the presence of the hallucinogenic drug experience in the life of early man that lay the very basis for the idea of the spirit.” MenBelieveIdeasSpiritI BelieveViewsPositionDrugBasesLaysShamanismHallucinogenic Drugs Author:Terence McKenna
“By more than two to one Americans do not consider what Kevorkian did, injecting a terminally ill patient with legal drugs at the patient's request, to be the same as murder. You may want to note that laws are not supposed to be enforced on the basis of public opinion polls.” WantMayTwoLawOpinionDrugBasesMurderNotesPatientIllSupposed To BePublic OpinionPollsRequestOpinion PollsTerminally Ill Author:Dan Rather
“I certainly wouldn't advocate anyone using drugs on a regular or habitual basis.” DrugBasesHabitual Author:William S. Burroughs
“I know that sounds really extreme, but if you just look at the history, you will find Harry Anslinger [first U.S. commissioner of the Bureau of Narcotics] going on about satanic swing and how reefer will make black people think they're as good as white people - which to him, obviously, was a very horrible outcome. This is the basis of our drug laws.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsFirstsLooksLawSoundBlackWhiteDrugBasesExtremesHorribleOutcomesBlack PeopleSwingsSatanicNarcoticsCommissionersDrug Laws Author:Maia Szalavitz
“For those who say that the war on drugs and the system of mass incarceration really isn't about race, I say there is no way we would allow the majority of young white men to be swept into the criminal justice system for minor drug offenses, branded criminals and felons, and then stripped of their basis civil and human rights while young black men who are engaged in the same activity trot off to college. That would never be accepted as the norm.” MenWayHumansWarYoungBlackJusticeWhiteRaceRightsCollegeDrugActivityMassBasesMajorityHuman RightsCriminalsAcceptedEngagedMinorsOffenseWhite ManNormJustice SystemWar On DrugsCriminal JusticeIncarcerationCriminal Justice SystemBrandedMass IncarcerationFelonsOff To College Author:Michelle Alexander