“I awoke from The Sickness at the age of forty-five, calm and sane, and in reasonably good health except for a weakened liver and the look of borrowed flesh common to all who survive The Sickness... When I speak of drug addiction I do not refer to keif, marijuana or any preparation of hashish, mescaline, Banisteriopsis caapi, LSD6, Sacred Mushrooms or any other drugs of the hallucinogen group... There is no evidence that the use of any hallucinogen results in physical dependence.” LooksUseAgeSpeakResultsCommonFiveGroupsDrugEvidenceSacredAddictionCalmFleshPreparationSicknessFortyMarijuanaSaneDependenceBorrowedGood HealthLiverDrug AddictionMushroomsDrug AddictHallucinogensHashish Author:William S. Burroughs
“It's just human nature - isn't it? - to be more attracted to something that's taboo. If someone tells you not to smoke, you wanna smoke. If they say, 'Don't do drugs,' you wanna do drugs. That's why I've always thought that the best way to stop people taking drugs is to legalise the fucking things. It would take people about five seconds to realise that being an addict is a terribly unattractive and pathetic way to be, whereas at the moment it still has that kind of rebel cool vibe to it, y'know?” PeopleIfsKnowsWayHumansKindStillsMomentsFiveHuman NatureKingsDrugBest WaySmokeRealisingSecondsRebelAddictPatheticTabooUnattractive Author:Ozzy Osbourne
“During my eleven years as a New York City public school teacher, I saw firsthand the impact that poverty has on the classroom. In low-income neighborhoods like Sunset Park, where I taught, students as young as five years old enter school affected by the stresses often created by poverty: domestic violence, drug abuse, gang activity.” YearsSchoolYoungCitiesPovertyFiveSawsTeacherViolenceNew YorkStudentsTaughtDrugActivityLowsAbuseStressImpactIncomeParksFive YearsSunsetNeighborhoodAffectedNew York CityClassroomDomestic ViolenceGangPublic SchoolElevenFive Year OldsSchool TeachersDrug AbuseLow Income Author:Sal Albanese
“A "snapshot" feature in USA Today listed the five greatest concerns parents and teachers had about children in the '50s: talking out of turn, chewing gum in class, doing homework, stepping out of line, cleaning their rooms. Then it listed the five top concerns of parents today: drug addiction, teenage pregnancy, suicide and homicide, gang violence, anorexia and bulimia. We can also add AIDS, poverty, and homelessness. . . . Between my own childhood and the advent of my motherhood--one short generation--the culture had gone completely mad.” ChildrenTodayTurnsCultureParentLinesMy OwnRoomsTalkingClassPovertyGoneFiveTeacherViolenceGenerationsChildhoodDrugConcernSuicideMadAddAddictionMotherhoodAidsFeaturesUsaPregnancyTeenageCleaningGangHomelessnessHomeworkAnorexiaDrug AddictionDrug AddictAdventGumChewingBulimiaSnapshotsHomicideParents And TeachersChewing GumTeenage PregnancyGang ViolenceAnorexia And Bulimia Author:Mary Blakely
“In four days, I experienced five seasons. It was thirty, it was sixty, it was ninety, then it was twelve! And on the last day, there was thunder, lightning, and snow - together! And I hadn't done drugs.” DoneTogetherLastsFiveFourDrugSeasonsSnowThirtyTwelveSixtyLightningThunderNinetyLast Day Author:Lewis Black
“The war on drugs has gone on for about forty-five, fifty years - and it's been a complete failure. If you had a business that was failing so badly, you would change course. And it's just incredible that governments continue along the same course.” IfsYearsWarGovernmentCoursesGoneFiveFailingDrugIncrediblesFiftyFortyWar On Drugs Author:Richard Branson
“Caesar [from the Rise of the Planet of the Apes] was brought up with human beings and because of the drug he had pretty much grown up with his whole life, he felt like an outsider, he felt trapped in an ape's body but he didn't really feel like an ape and that was my way into the character. So he's always had this duality playing him from an infant all the way to now as a fifty-five year old ape.” WayFeelsYearsHumansWholeCharacterBodyFeltHuman BeingsFivePlanetsDrugWhole LifeMy WayFive YearsFiftyTrappedOutsidersInfantApesDualityFive Year Olds Author:Andy Serkis
“I don't think we should be putting first-time drug offenders in jail for five years. It's a waste of resources.” ThinkingShouldYearsFirstsFiveDrugWasteResourcesFirst TimeFive YearsJailOffenders Author:Charles Schumer
“I support the death penalty for the kingpin, the guy at the top, but I don't think you should throw a drug offender in jail for five years, and let a mugger out after a year.” ThinkingShouldYearsGuySupportFiveDrugFive YearsJailPenaltiesDeath PenaltyOffendersMuggers Author:Charles Schumer
“Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, and devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad.” IfsThinkingMenWorldYearsArtStillsRealHardFiveStreetsCrimeCircumstancesDrugTenDiseaseMy FamilyTwentiesMovedChinaRevengeMartial ArtsDevotedDealerTwenty FiveMonasteriesDrug DealersBeing BadWiping Out Author:Neal Stephenson
“What kills a person at twenty-five? Leukemia. An accident. But George knows the better odds are that someone who passes at that age dies of unhappiness. Drug overdose. Suicide. Reckless behavior.” KnowsPersonsAgeDiesFiveDrugBehaviorTwentiesSuicideAccidentsUnhappinessOddsRecklessTwenty FiveOverdoseLeukemia Book:Limitations Source: Limitations
“We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers... and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can.” TwoWholeHalfCasesFiveSeriousNeededDrugTendenciesGrassCollectionsBagsDozenSaltLockedSheetsSeventiesGalaxyAcidVegasLas VegasCocaineLoathingPintsGonzoHalf FullFear And LoathingRumTequilaShakersDownersBudweiser Book:The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time Source: The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time