“Why are drugs so profitable? Essentially, many argue, it’s because they are illegal. By making drugs a criminal enterprise, it creates an enormous black market economy where drugs fetch far greater prices than they would if legal.” IfsBlackEconomyGreaterDrugCriminalsArguingEnormousEnterpriseIllegalProfitableMarket EconomyFetch Author:James Morcan
“In experimental art, men are given the exact specifications of coming violence to their own psyches from their own counter-irritant or technology... But the counter-irritant usually proves a greater plague than the initial irritant, like a drug habit.” MenArtGivenTechnologyGreaterViolenceHabitDrugProveExperimentsPlagueInitialsPsychSpecificationsIrritants Book:Understanding media: the extensions of man Source: Understanding media: the extensions of man
“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
“We may agree, for example, that our societies must provide greater security for the individual; yet if all we succeed in producing is a providing increased anonymity and ever increasing boredom, then we should not wonder if ingenious man turns to such amusements as drugs, housebreaking, vandalism, mayhem, riots, or - at the most harmless - strange haircuts, costumes, standards of cleanliness, and sexual experiments.” IfsMenShouldMayTurnsIndividualWonderGreaterSecurityExampleStrangeDrugSucceedStandardsAgreeExperimentsBoredomOur SocietyProvidingCostumesAmusementRiotCleanlinessIngeniousAnonymityHaircutsMayhemVandalism Author:Robert Ardrey
“I would just never want to have someone come out for the greater good who was a celebrity and then find them slipping into like Lohanville with alcohol or drugs or something else just because they couldn't cope.” WantGreaterDrugAlcoholSlippingGreater Good Author:John Amaechi
“There is probably a high percentage of Native Americans as well as non-Indians who feel that participating in this greater American economy that you mentioned is and has become a recipe for disaster in the long term, because the response to social and environmental problems has been responded to with a drug mentality, which is to say, anything for the quick fix. And it has trained the public to always believe they are one purchase away from happiness.” FeelsBelieveWellsLongHas BeensProblemSocialTermEconomyGreaterDrugResponseEnvironmentalDisasterLong TermNativeMentalityNative AmericanSay AnythingRecipesPercentagesAlways BelieveParticipatingAmerican EconomyEnvironmental ProblemsQuick Fixes Author:Leonard Peltier
“Drunk driving contains a far greater risk of violent death than the use or sale of illegal drugs, the societal response to drunk drivers has generally emphasized keeping the person functional and in society, while attempting to respond to the dangerous behavior through treatment and counseling.” PersonsUseGreaterRiskDangerousDrugBehaviorResponseDrivingViolentDrunkTreatmentIllegalDriversAttemptingCounselingIllegal DrugsViolent DeathDrunk Driving Author:Michelle Alexander
“For you must know, gentlemen, that when the mariner is dosed, he likes to know that he has been dosed: with fifteen grains or even less of this valuable substance scenting him and the very air about him there can be no doubt of the matter; and such is the nature of the human mind that he experiences a far greater real benefit than the drug itself would provide, were it deprived of its stench.” KnowsMindHumansHas BeensRealMatterDoubtGreaterAirDrugBenefitsValuableLikesSubstanceGentlemanNo DoubtHuman MindGrainFifteenDeprivedMariners Author:Patrick O'Brian