“I think a person who is disabled should be disabled by no act of their own. If you become disabled because of alcoholism, drugs, or things of that nature, I do not think those conditions qualify someone to be called disabled. I think those conditions result from personal decisions.” IfsThinkingShouldPersonsDecisionResultsConditionsDrugAlcoholismDisabledPersonal Decisions Author:Jesse Ventura
“Sometimes maybe you need an experience. The experience can be a person or it can be a drug. The experience opens a door that was there all the time but you never saw it. Or maybe it blasts you into outer space...All that negative stuff. All the pain...It just floted away from me, I just floated away from it...up and away.” NeedsPersonsSometimesPainStuffSpaceSawsDoorsDrugNegativeBlastOuter Space Author:Melvin Burgess
“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
“To demand that a person pee in a cup whenever you wish him to, without a documented reason to suspect that he has been using an illegal drug, is intolerable in our republic. You are saying to him, "I wonder if you are not behaving in a way that I approve of. Convince me that you indeed are. Outrageous. Intolerable.” IfsWayPersonsHas BeensReasonWishWonderDrugDemandCupsConvinceIllegalSuspectsRepublicOutrageousIllegal Drugs Book:Pihkal: A Chemical Love Story Source: Pihkal: A Chemical Love Story