“Taking drugs on a recreation level is one thing. But taking them while you're working on a stage is, I don't think it was that great. It's the control factor. And the thing about being on stage, you really want to feel that you're sort of in control a lot. It's not a place where you want to be out of control.” ThinkingWantFeelsLevelsOne ThingStageDrugFactorsRecreation Author:Mick Jagger
“Love and intimacy are at the roots of what makes us sick and what makes us well, what causes sadness and what brings happiness, what makes us suffer and what leads to healing...I am not aware of any other factor in medicine- not diet, not smoking, not exercise, not stress, not genetics, not drugs, not surgery- that has a greater impact on our quality of life, incidence of illness and premature death from all causes.” WellsSufferingCausesHealingQualityGreaterSadnessExerciseDrugRootsSickStressImpactMedicineIllnessFactorsIntimacyDietsSmokingSurgeryQuality Of LifeGeneticsPrematureIncidencePremature Death Author:Dean Ornish
“Transformation of language through psychedelic drugs is a central factor of the evolution of the social matrix of the rest of the century.” LanguageSocialCenturyEvolutionDrugTransformationFactorsPsychedelicPsychedelic Drugs Author:Terence McKenna
“If we want to think about racism and how it might play out in drug policy, we have to think about the trial of George Zimmerman. We think about the prosecution, when they said "race is not a factor." It's so dishonest.” IfsThinkingWantSaidPlayMightRacePolicyDrugRacismTrialsFactorsThey SaidProsecutionDrug PolicyZimmerman Author:Carl Hart
“I'm a believer in biochemistry. But I tell people to try only one thing at a time to see if it works. And if you do give a powerful drug to a kid, it better have a big wow factor.” PeopleIfsGivingTryingBigsKidsPowerfulOne ThingDrugBelieverFactorsWowOne Thing At A TimeBiochemistry Author:Temple Grandin
“Science is, rightly, searching for drugs to arrest ageing or to slow the advance of dementia. But the evidence suggests that many of the most powerful factors determining how you age come from what you do, and what you do with others: whether you work, whether you play music, whether you have regular visitors.” PlayAgePowerfulDrugEvidenceFactorsMost PowerfulAgeingVisitorsDementia Author:Geoff Mulgan