“All people make mistakes. All of us are sinners. All of us are criminals. All of us violate the law at some point in our lives. In fact, if the worst thing you have ever done is speed ten miles over the speed limit on the freeway, you have put yourself and others at more risk of harm than someone smoking marijuana in the privacy of his or her living room. Yet there are people in the United States serving life sentences for first-time drug offenses, something virtually unheard of anywhere else in the world.” PeopleIfsWorldFirstsStatesDoneFactsLawUnitedRoomsMistakeUnited StatesOur LivesRiskWorstDrugTenLimitsFirst TimeSentencesSpeedHarmCriminalsMilesSmokingPrivacyMaking MistakesSinnerServingMarijuanaOffenseWorst ThingsLiving RoomUnheardFreewaysSpeed LimitsPeople Make Mistakes Book:The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Source: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
“I experimented with drugs and I experimented with everything that little boys do - vandalism, throwing eggs at cars, breaking and entering schools and destroying a room. But I finally got to a point where I looked around and said, "This is not getting me anywhere. I'm stagnating with these guys." They were getting drunk and high every weekend. I got out.” LittlesSaidSchoolGuyRoomsBoysCarDrugAlcoholDrunkEggsThrowingDestroyingWeekendEnteringLittle BoysGetting DrunkVandalismBreaking And Entering Author:Johnny Depp
“Back at the Rash [a Florida nightclub], a waif in a lime latex body tube went into the rest room to snort the newest designer drug, XGB5, which gave people the uncanny sensation of throwing money away while chewing their own lips off. It was hard to come by and everyone had to have it.” PeopleHardBodyRoomsDrugLipsDesignerSensationsThrowingFloridaTubesChewingNightclubsUncannyLimesLatex Author:Tim Dorsey
“People used to make records, as in the record of an event, the event of people playing music in a room, and now everything's cross-marketing, its about sunglasses and shoes, or guns and drugs that you choose.” PeopleUsedRoomsRecordsEventsDrugGunCrossesShoesMarketingYou ChoosePlaying MusicSunglasses Author:Ani DiFranco
“When you hear someone use the word 'meds' instead of the word 'medicine,' chances are they're no stranger to massive doses of mind-altering psychotropic drugs. Back out of the room slowly.” MindUseChanceRoomsDrugMedicineStrangerMassiveChances AreDoseMeds Author:Amy Sedaris
“I'd like to have every gentleman and lady in this room commit themselves to get our government to legalize drugs. So they have to get it through a doctor, not just some gangsters who sell it under the table. Let's legalize drugs like they did in Amsterdam. No one's hiding or sneaking around corners to get it. They go to a doctor to get it.” GovernmentRoomsDrugDoctorsTablesSellsCornersCommitGentlemanHidingGangstersAround The CornerAmsterdamSneaking Around Author:Tony Bennett
“My stay in Camp Betty was the longest I'd been without drink or drugs in my adult life. [...] At first, they put me in a room with a guy who owned a bowling alley, but he snored like an asthmatic horse, so I moved and ended up with a depressive mortician. [...] The mortician snored even louder than the bowling alley guy - he was like a moose with a tracheotomy.” FirstsGuyRoomsDrinkDrugAdultsHorseMovedCampsAlleysBowlingDepressiveMooseBowling AlleysMorticians Author:Ozzy Osbourne
“The talk shows are stuffed full of sufferers who have regained their health--congressmen who suffered through a serious spell of boozing and skirt-chasing, White House aides who were stricken cruelly with overweening ambition, movie stars and baseball players who came down with acute cases of wanting to trash hotel rooms while under the influence of recreational drugs. Most of them have found God, or at least a publisher.” ShowsFoundHouseStarsWhiteRoomsCasesPlayerInfluenceSeriousDrugAmbitionBaseballHotelWhite HouseSpellsPublishersChasingMovie StarTrashSkirtsBaseball PlayerCongressmanTalk ShowsHotel RoomsSufferersRecreational Drugs Author:Calvin Trillin
“A "snapshot" feature in USA Today listed the five greatest concerns parents and teachers had about children in the '50s: talking out of turn, chewing gum in class, doing homework, stepping out of line, cleaning their rooms. Then it listed the five top concerns of parents today: drug addiction, teenage pregnancy, suicide and homicide, gang violence, anorexia and bulimia. We can also add AIDS, poverty, and homelessness. . . . Between my own childhood and the advent of my motherhood--one short generation--the culture had gone completely mad.” ChildrenTodayTurnsCultureParentLinesMy OwnRoomsTalkingClassPovertyGoneFiveTeacherViolenceGenerationsChildhoodDrugConcernSuicideMadAddAddictionMotherhoodAidsFeaturesUsaPregnancyTeenageCleaningGangHomelessnessHomeworkAnorexiaDrug AddictionDrug AddictAdventGumChewingBulimiaSnapshotsHomicideParents And TeachersChewing GumTeenage PregnancyGang ViolenceAnorexia And Bulimia Author:Mary Blakely
“Why do people go to the cinema? What takes them into a darkened room where, for two hours, they watch the play of shadows on a sheet? The search for entertainment? The need for a kind of drug? ..I think that what a person normally goes to the cinema for is time: for time lost or spent or not yet had. He goes there for living experience; for cinema, like no other art, widens, enhances and concentrates a person’s experience-and not only enhances it but makes it longer, significantly longer. That is the power of cinema: ‘stars’, story-lines and entertainment have nothing to do with it.” PeopleThinkingNeedsKindPersonsArtTwoPlayStoriesLostStarsHoursLinesRoomsWatchesDrugShadowEntertainmentCinemaSheets Author:Andrei Tarkovsky
“I saw this anti-drug commercial that showed a kid smoking pot in his dad`s room with his friend. This kid finds a gun, the gun accidentally goes off and kills his friend. Only in America is the villain in this commercial not guns or bad parenting, but pot.” KidsAmericaRoomsSawsDadDrugGunAdvertisingSmokingPotVillainOnly In AmericaSmoking PotBad Parenting Author:Bill Maher
“We're all self-destructive when we're young. We all rebel. If we don't, there's something wrong. But when a Chicano kid's in a rebellious state, he has nowhere to go but to put himself in jeopardy with the police. When a kid who has some class privilege rebels, he's in a beautiful room and he can buy these horrible CDs and drugs. He's buffered from being a criminal.” IfsSelfStatesKidsBeautifulYoungRoomsClassDrugPolicePrivilegeCriminalsHorribleDestructiveRebelRebelliousCdsSelf DestructiveJeopardyNowhere To GoClass Privilege Author:Jimmy Santiago Baca
“I wasn't accepted because I didn't accept the drug culture that most of my peers were involved in. Now it's like a locked room.” CultureRoomsAcceptingInvolvedDrugAcceptedLockedPeersDrug Culture Author:Nancy Sinatra
“I had gone to jail, but I wasn't gettin' locked up for drugs then. I was gettin' locked up for guns. My moms kept finding guns and stuff in my room and she was gettin' more scared.” StuffRoomsGoneMomDrugFindingsGunScaredMy MomJailLockedLocked Up Author:The Notorious B.I.G.
“If one can create a purposeful, meaningful life then there's no room for drugs or alcohol. It's not on the list anymore.” IfsRoomsDrugAlcoholListsMeaningfulMeaningful Life Author:Mackenzie Phillips
“[The doctor] peeked into the trauma room and saw the situation: the clerk - that is, me - standing next to the orderly, Georgie, both of us on drugs, looking down at a patient with a knife sticking up out of his face. 'What seems to be the trouble?' he asked.” SeemsFacesNextRoomsSituationSawsTroubleDrugStandingDoctorsPatientTraumaKnivesOrderlyClerksLooking Down Book:Jesus' Son: Stories Source: Jesus' Son: Stories