“Nobody tells the history of marijuana and its prohibition like Russ Belville does. He has a special talent for presenting scholarship in a remarkably engaging way. That’s why I turned to Russ when I needed someone to present on the subject to the annual staff retreat of the Drug Policy Alliance. And it’s why I repeatedly recommend him for speaking and media opportunities. He’s good!” WayDoeOpportunitySpecialSubjectsTalentMediaPolicyNeededDrugMarijuanaStaffRetreatEngagingAlliancesScholarshipProhibitionPresentingAnnualsSpecial TalentsNeeded SomeoneDrug Policy Author:Ethan Nadelmann
“Now some people when they sit down to write and nothing special comes, no good ideas, are so frightened that they drink a lot of strong coffee to hurry them up, or smoke packages of cigarettes, or take drugs or get drunk. They do not know that ideas come slowly, and that the more clear, tranquil and unstimulated you are, the slower the ideas come, but the better they are.” PeopleKnowsWritingIdeasStrongClearSpecialDrinkDrugCoffeeDrunkSmokeFrightenedGood IdeasCigarettePackagesTranquil Book:If You Want to Write Source: If You Want to Write
“I'll smoke weed occasionally, on special occasions like a movie night or something. I like to drink beer but whenever it comes to hard drugs, I really believe that they hurt your body, deplete your energy.” BelieveHardBodyNightEnergyHurtSpecialDrinkDrugYour BodySmokeOccasionsBeerWeedSmoke WeedSpecial Occasion Author:Christofer Drew
“This is a revolution of the mind, get your mind together and get away from drugs.” MindTogetherPeaceInterestSpecialRevolutionDrugActivismGet AwaySpecial Interests Author:James Brown
“I began to study marijuana in 1967... I had not yet learned that there is something very special about illicit drugs. If they don't always make the drug user behave irrationally, they certainly cause many non-users to behave that way.” IfsWayCausesStudySpecialDrugBehaveMarijuanaUsers Author:Lester Grinspoon
“I think about my cocaine use. I liked it. I thought it was a great drug. But I knew that if I was doing that almost exclusively, I wouldn't be able to continue to also have significant others and a wide range of other things. And I wasn't special. A number of people, including the people I was doing cocaine with, also behaved the same way.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayUseAbleNumbersSpecialDrugIncludingWideSignificantRangeCocaineSignificant Other Author:Carl Hart
“Looking at the data and at my drug use and evaluating it carefully just let me see that I wasn't special, but my drug use challenged what I thought about cocaine. Because I would accept when I would say, "What happened to that person?" and someone would say, "They started using cocaine...they went downhill..." I would just accept that, even though I had a different experience and all these other people had a different experience. But I would throw that out because I thought my experience was an aberration.” PeoplePersonsDifferentUseAcceptingHappenedSpecialDrugLet MeDataCocaineAberrationDifferent ExperiencesDrug Use Author:Carl Hart
“I think we are making progress, but we have long way to go. People also have got to understand the agenda that we are fighting for. This is a senator who has taken on every powerful special interest, whether it's Wall Street, whether it's drug companies who are ripping off the American people, the military industrial complex.” PeopleThinkingWayLongFightingInterestPowerfulCompanyTakenProgressStreetsSpecialMilitaryWallDrugComplexesAgendasSenatorsLong WayVery PowerfulSpecial InterestsMilitary Industrial ComplexLong Way To GoDrug Companies Author:Bernie Sanders
“Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use of any other drug with special horror.” UseSpecialHorrorDrugRegardAlcoholDrugs And AlcoholFunny Sarcastic Author:William S. Burroughs