“The entire American media apparatus bought into the drug war - which is an enormously damaging and costly undertaking for this country - and there wasn't enough critical reporting about it and that's why it's gotten out of hand.” WarCountryEnoughHandsLiteratureMediaDrugCriticalUndertakingsWar On DrugsAmerican Media Author:David Talbot
“If you support the war on drugs in its present form, then you're only paying lip-service to the defense of freedom, and you don't really grasp the concept of the sovereign individual human being.” IfsHumansWarFormLiteratureIndividualHuman BeingsSupportDrugConceptsLipsDefenseSovereignWar On DrugsLip Service Author:Neal Boortz
“To endure the pain of living, we all drug ourselves more or less with gin, with literature, with superstitions, with romance, with idealism, political, sentimental, and moral, with every possible preparation of that universal hashish: imagination.” PainRomancePoliticalLiteratureImaginationMoralDrugUniversalEndurePreparationSuperstitionsIdealismSentimentalGinHashish Author:George Bernard Shaw
“India went through a dramatic revolution after the '90s when our economy started opening up for the first time and Indians were now experiencing the Western life, if you will. Drugs and sex and a lot of those influences came in as the economy stabilized, and we were growing up and experiencing that. The Indian writing market was very small at that time. Our literature was very attuned to what Western audiences were interested in, so everybody was writing about the slums in India and magic realism or stories about Hindus and Muslims and partition.” IfsWritingFirstsStoriesLiteratureSexAudienceEconomyGrowing UpGrowingMagicInfluenceRevolutionDrugFirst TimeIndiaWesternOpeningIndianDramaticRealismOpening UpSlumsPartitionMagic Realism Author:Karan Bajaj
“My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.” WellsMeanUseFoundLiteratureForceLonelinessDrugAlcoholCheatingCheatPeersCompanionshipDrugs And AlcoholDrinking AlcoholIntoxicationSociable Author:Franz Kafka
“I was asked by the National Institute of Health to be their scientific discussant on the effects of these drug [Ritalin] at a big conference they held. Beforehand, I reviewed all of the important literature on the issue. Even with experiments on animals. When they're given these drugs they stop playing; they stop being curious; they stop socializing; they stop trying to escape. We make good caged animals with these drugs. And we make good caged kids by knocking their spontaneity out of them. And, Michael, the other thing is that these drugs enforce obsessive behavior.” TryingImportantBigsKidsLiteratureGivenAnimalIssuesEffectsDrugBehaviorExperimentsCuriousConferencesSpontaneityInstituteKnockingObsessiveStop TryingCagedSocializingCaged AnimalRitalinExperiments On Animals Author:Peter Breggin
“We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.” SometimesHandsAbleLiteratureMemoriesChanceDangerousDrugPoisonChemicalsLaboratoryOur MemoriesSteersSoothing Author:Marcel Proust