“Colombia is in a risky position. They've got a peace process that's going nowhere, and a drug production problem that's skyrocketing.” ProblemProcessPositionDrugProductionsColombia Author:Barry McCaffrey
“When I was younger I never drank. I never drank, I never did any weed or drugs or anything because I felt it would compromise my position. I was an orphan, and I had a feeling like if I ever hit the ground I may never get back up.” IfsMayFeelingsFeltPositionDrugCompromiseGet BackWeedDrankOrphan Author:Ice T
“Ayahuasca, unlike mushrooms and all these other things is only as good as the person who made it. . . . The ayahuasca is a combinatory drug, and so it brings the human interaction and the lore of it into a much more central position.” HumansPersonsMadePositionDrugMade ItInteractionMushroomsAyahuasca Author:Terence McKenna
“Marcel Eliade took the position that hallucinogenic shamanism was decadent, and Gordon Wasson, very rightly I believe, contravened this view and held that actually it was very probably the presence of the hallucinogenic drug experience in the life of early man that lay the very basis for the idea of the spirit.” MenBelieveIdeasSpiritI BelieveViewsPositionDrugBasesLaysShamanismHallucinogenic Drugs Author:Terence McKenna
“'Drugs' and psychedelics are not two members of a family, they are antithetically opposed to each other. The pro-psychedelic position is an anti-drug position.” TwoPositionDrugMembersPsychedelic Author:Terence McKenna
“The minute you use the drugs, and you do something that interferes with the life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness of the guy next door, you're a criminal, and you ought to be punished for that especially if you're in a position where your actions could affect large numbers of people. Being a doctor, a legislator, a judge, an airline pilot, where somebody's life depends on you.” PeopleIfsUseActionGuyNextNumbersLibertyDoorsMinutesPositionJudgingDependsOughtDrugDoctorsCriminalsPursuitPilotsInterferePursuit Of HappinessAirlineLarge NumbersLegislatorsLife Liberty And The Pursuit Of HappinessAirline Pilots Author:Frank Zappa
“If you sit in a position where decisions that you take would have a serious effect on people, you can't ignore a lot of experience around the world which says this drug has these negative effects.” PeopleIfsWorldDecisionEffectsPositionSeriousDrugNegativeAround The World Author:Thabo Mbeki
“Your house, being the place in which you read, can tell us the position books occupy in your life, if they are a defense you set up to keep the outside world at a distance, if they area dream into which you sink as if into a drug, or bridges you cast toward the outside, toward the world that interests you so much that you want to multiply and extend its dimensions through books.” IfsWorldWantBookDreamHouseInterestPositionDrugAreasDistanceCastsDefenseBridgesDimensionsOutside World Author:Italo Calvino