“Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison.” MatterDrugNo Matter WhatThis LifeComparison Author:Jerry Garcia
“The experiences which drugs induce are as far removed from Reality as is a mirage, from water. No matter how much you pursue the mirage, you will never quench your thirst, and the search for Truth through drugs must end in disillusionment.” EndsMatterRealityWaterDrugPursueThirstDisillusionmentSearch For TruthMiragesQuench Author:Meher Baba
“In the specific case of abortion, the matter is particularly easy in that no woman wants a late abortion. Once abortion was made legal, the age of the aborted fetus went down. The slope slipped in the other direction. If we legalize RU-486 and other similar new drugs, the age will fall to one week or less and start approaching zero. The slippery slope will slide in the other direction. The only reason we have late abortions is because we make early abortion difficult.” IfsWantMadeMatterReasonAgeFallEasyDifficultCasesWeekAtheismDrugLateAbortionZeroSlidesWomen WantSlipperySlopesFetusSlippery Slope Author:Garrett Hardin
“I'd always thought that if I could get sober and stay sober, I would be able to have a career making music. My drug and alcohol addiction was the one thing holding me back. I had finally gotten the tools to stay sober, and it was just a matter of writing the songs.” IfsWritingMatterWould BeAbleSongCareersOne ThingDrugToolsAddictionAlcoholIf I CouldSoberDrugs And AlcoholAlcohol Addiction Author:Macklemore
“If you're white and you're rich in the USA, if you get busted for drugs, you get a good attorney, and you in all likelihood serve no time. But if you're poor, black, Hispanic, or poor and white for that matter, you can get put in jail.” IfsMatterBlackWhitePoorRichDrugUsaJailAttorneyHispanicLikelihoodBusted Author:Rand Paul
“Insects leave (Madagascar periwinkle) Catharanthus roseus out of their diets. So, for that matter, do deer. The reason is that the plants are loaded with alkaloids so potent that they are the source of vincristine and vinblastine. These are drugs important in routines of chemotherapy for treating Hodgkin's disease and certain forms of leukemia.” ImportantMatterReasonFormCertainSourceDrugDiseasePlantDietsInsectsLoadedDeerChemotherapyLeukemiaMadagascarPeriwinkle Author:Allen Lacy
“No matter what federal program one selects - Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, the drug war, the income tax and the IRS, education, foreign interventions and wars - they are all a giant mess.” WarMatterSocialSecurityDrugTaxesProgramNo Matter WhatIncomeMessGiantsSocial SecurityInterventionIncome TaxMedicareWar On DrugsIrsMedicaid Author:Jacob G. Hornberger
“Individual freedom and drug laws contradict each other. In a genuinely free society, people are free to ingest whatever they want to ingest, no matter how harmful or destructive. What people ingest is none of the government's business. If drug users or drug addicts wish to get help, a free society provides the means to do so.” PeopleIfsWantMeanMatterHelpingGovernmentLawIndividualWishDrugDestructiveUsersAddictFree SocietyDrug AddictIndividual FreedomDrug Laws Author:Jacob G. Hornberger
“If you decide you want to change your life around, it doesn't matter where you came from, what you did, if you were incarcerated or you are from the projects, if you are an uppity kid who came from a really wealthy family - and all of them do drugs and are into that life - it doesn't matter; come as you are, and God does his work.” IfsWantDoeMatterKidsDrugProjectsWealthyChanging Your Life Author:Adrienne Bailon
“People want to catch a buzz. That is why drugs are illegal, yet people still try to get their hands on them no matter what the consequence. Drugs make us happy, they may not be healthy.” PeopleWantTryingMayStillsMatterHandsHealthyDrugConsequenceNo Matter WhatIllegalBuzz Author:Benjamin Franklin
“In enforcement, you always have to have both a focus on the really worst actors - you know, gang bangers, in this case, drug dealers, that sort of thing - but also routine enforcement because think about, for instance, the IRS. They don't say, OK, well, if you're not a money launderer, it doesn't matter whether you fill your tax return out right or not. They have both. They go after the really bad actors and they have a kind of general, routine enforcement.” IfsThinkingKnowsWellsKindMatterActorsCasesFocusWorstReturnDrugTaxesInstanceRoutineEnforcementGangDealerIrsDrug DealersTax Returns Author:Mark Krikorian
“If I begin a poem, "I am a donkey," reason kicks in and says, "She is taking on the persona of a donkey." But if I write, "I have taken so many drugs I can't see my feet," the tendency is to take that as a confession on the part of the poet. Maybe that doesn't matter. I'd almost prefer for it to be the other way round.” IfsWayWritingI CanMatterReasonTakenFeetPoetDrugRoundsTendenciesKicksConfessionPersonaDonkey Author:Matthea Harvey
“We take drugs because we want to feel a sense of connection, and we seek God for the same reason. The search, no matter where it's directed - divine union or cocaine - begins with pain that comes from believing you're separate from love. The key is using spiritual practice to turn inward, toward awareness, which is what we actually are.” WantFeelsBelieveMatterReasonPainSpiritualTurnsPracticeAwarenessDivineKeysDrugConnectionsUnionsInwardCocaineSpiritual Practice Author:Angel Grant
“The subject matter itself lends itself to the black side because the kids are drug dealers and kids that are getting shot by police and getting shot by themselves. People automatically associate that with blackness because of the news.” PeopleMatterKidsSidesBlackSubjectsDrugNewsShotsPoliceAssociatesSubject MatterDealerBlacknessDrug Dealers Author:Steven Caple Jr.
“It might be a little rough on some people for a while, but I think it's the only way to deal with drugs. Look at Prohibition: all it did was make a lot of criminals rich. Should be legalized for a matter of sanity.” PeopleThinkingWayShouldLooksLittlesMatterMightDealsRichDrugCriminalsRoughSanityProhibition Author:Hunter S. Thompson
“To make matters worse, federal drug forfeiture laws allow state and local law enforcement agencies to keep, for their own use, up to 80 percent of the cash, cars, and homes seized from suspected drug offenders. You don't even have to be convicted of a drug offense; if you're just suspected of a drug offense, law enforcement has the right to keep the cash they find on you or in your home, or seize your car if drugs are allegedly found in it or "suspected" of being transported in the vehicle.” IfsMatterStatesUseHomeLawFoundCarDrugPercentLocalsAgencyCashVehicleOffenseLaw EnforcementEnforcementOffenders Author:Michelle Alexander
“Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Here's Tom with the Weather.” MenMatterPhilosophyDreamHumorTodayFunnyYoungLife IsUniverseEnergyImaginationConsciousnessComedyMediaHumourDrugWittyWeatherYoung ManLife And DeathTomsVibrationsAcidPsychedelicLife DeathLsdPsychedelic ExperienceStream Of ConsciousnessHallucinogensWeathermenMatter And EnergyTrippy Author:Bill Hicks
“Ignore that nightmare in the bathroom. Just another ugly refugee from the Love Generation, some doom-struck gimp who couldn't handle the pressure. My attorney has never been able to accept the notion - often espoused by reformed drug abusers and especially popular among those on probation - that you can get a lot higher without drugs than with them. And neither have I, for that matter.” MatterAbleFunnyAcceptingGenerationsHigherDrugPressureNotionUglyHandleNightmareRefugeeBathroomDoomAttorneyAbusersDrug AbuseProbation Book:The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time Source: The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time
“I haven't found a drug yet that can get you anywhere near as high as a sitting at a desk writing, trying to imagine a story no matter how bizarre it is, [or] going out and getting into the weirdness of reality and doing a little time on the Proud Highway.” WritingTryingLittlesMatterStoriesRealityFoundImagineHavensProudDrugSittingGoing OutDesksBizarreHighwaysLittle TimeWeirdness Book:Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson Source: Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson
“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
“I was thinking how amazing it was that the world contained so many lives. Out in these streets people were embroiled in a thousand different matters, money problems, love problems, school problems. People were falling in love, getting married, going to drug rehab, learning how to ice-skate, getting bifocals, studying for exams, trying on clothes, getting their hair-cut and getting born. And in some houses people were getting old and sick and were dying, leaving others to grieve. It was happening all the time, unnoticed, and it was the thing that really mattered.” PeopleThinkingWorldTryingDifferentMatterProblemSchoolFallHouseBornStudyCuttingStreetsDyingHairDrugThousandMarriedClothesHappeningsSickFalling In LoveLeavingIceGrievingGetting OldGetting MarriedExamUnnoticedRehabSkatesHair CutMoney ProblemThese StreetsBifocalsProblems Love Author:Jeffrey Eugenides