“Certain drugs provide brief excursions into altered states of consciousness. The problem is that the perceptions and understandings that come from these experiences don't tend to last.” StatesProblemLastsCertainUnderstandingConsciousnessBuddhismBalanceDrugPerceptionAlteredStates Of ConsciousnessExcursionsAltered StatesAltered States Of Consciousness Author:Frederick Lenz
“By banning psychedelic research we have not only given up the study of an interesting drug or group of substances, but also abandoned one of the most promising approaches to the understanding of the human mind and consciousness.” MindHumansGivenUnderstandingInterestingConsciousnessStudyGroupsDrugApproachResearchSubstanceHuman MindAbandonedGiven UpPsychedelic Author:Stanislav Grof
“I wasn't understanding enough about drug addition. No one seemed to know much about drug addiction. Things like LSD were all new. No one knew the harm. People thought cocaine was good for you.” PeopleKnowsEnoughUnderstandingDrugAddictionHarmCocaineDrug AddictionDrug AddictLsd Author:Mick Jagger
“It is not only the juror's right, but his duty to find the verdict according to his own best understanding, judgment and conscience, though in direct opposition to the instruction of the court.” WarUnderstandingDutyDrugJudgmentConscienceDirectCourtOppositionInstructionUsersJuryVerdictJurorsJury DutyNullificationJudge And Jury Author:John Adams
“I think with the work we do with these drugs we are the earliest pioneers in what over the next 100 years will lead to an understanding of consciousness almost as a thing apart from the monkey body and brain.” ThinkingYearsBodyNextUnderstandingBrainConsciousnessDrugMonkeysPioneers Author:Terence McKenna
“I really think we were charting a course to having a more sane response to mass incarceration, to drug use, and to understanding that the war on drugs has resulted only in the empowerment of vast criminal enterprises and the destruction of democracies around the world. And all that is coming to a miserable, horrific halt.” ThinkingWorldWarUseCoursesUnderstandingDemocracyDrugMassEmpowermentDestructionResponseCriminalsAround The WorldMiserableEnterpriseSaneHaltWar On DrugsHorrificIncarcerationDrug UseMass IncarcerationCharting Author:Ayelet Waldman
“When you've got Jews and Christians, Muslims, Sikhs and Hindus removing graffiti from buildings, or getting drug dealers off the street, that's side by side. When you do that, you take it from the very elevated level of interfaith dialogue to the street level of neighbors. You get them working side by side, and they become friends. Friendship sometimes counts for more than interfaith agreement or understanding. Friendship is deeply human.” SometimesChristianUnderstandingBuildingDrugJewNeighborDialogueDealerGraffiti Author:Jonathan Sacks
“Barack Obama's understanding of what the drug war had cost the country was meaningful. And very quietly in his second term, he and Eric Holder did make some adjustments in terms of the use of the Department of Justice, on the federal level. You saw ratcheting back of drug prohibition, and mass incarceration. You also saw, on the part of some certain states, a realization that they followed the war on drugs to a useless place, that they were only doing damage to communities, and bankrupting budgets with prison construction.” WarCountryUnderstandingTermCommunityJusticeDrugPrisonMeaningfulRealizationBarackConstructionProhibitionWar On DrugsIncarceration Author:David Simon
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.” PeopleMenWisdomGovernmentPoliticalReligionEnergyDifficultUnderstandingCommunityEnvironmentSocietyDependsDrugDifficultyClimate ChangeIntelligenceDependentGovernorsDependenceSalaryMiscellaneousInconvenientNever UnderestimateBest InvestmentDrug ProhibitionInconvenient TruthStupidity And IntelligenceLacking Something Author:Upton Sinclair
“Understanding capitalism is in some ways simple. At its best, capitalism rewards creators, makers and providers: the people and firms that create valuable things for others, like imaginative technologies and good food, cars and drugs.” PeopleWayUnderstandingSimpleTechnologyCarDrugCapitalismRewardsCreatorValuableFirmMakersImaginativeGood FoodProvidersValuable Things Author:Geoff Mulgan
“Use them with care, and use them with respect as to the transformations they can achieve, and you have an extraordinary research tool. Go banging about with a psychedelic drug for a Saturday night turn-on, and you can get into a really bad place, psychologically. Know what you're using, decide just why you're using it, and you can have a rich experience. They're not addictive, and they're certainly not escapist, either, but they're exceptionally valuable tools for understanding the human mind, and how it works.” KnowsMindHumansUseCareNightTurnsUnderstandingRichAchieveDrugResearchToolsTransformationExtraordinaryValuableHuman MindSaturdayTurn-onPsychedelicSaturday NightBangingEscapistsPsychedelic Drugs Author:Alexander Shulgin