“I couldn't imagine living the way I used to live. Now people come up to me from the drug days and go, 'Hi, remember me?' And I'm going, 'No, did I have sex with you? Did I take a dump in your tool box?'” PeopleWayRememberUsedSexImagineDrugToolsCome UpBoxesDumpRemember MeTool Boxes Author:Robin Williams
“Once you've produced the scientific data that's necessary to make a drug into a medicine, you've gone a long way towards mainstreaming the acceptance of these drugs as having beneficial properties. And then the step to legalization is not that far behind that.” WayLongBehindsStepsGoneAcceptanceDrugMedicinePropertyDataLong WayBeneficial Author:Rick Doblin
“One of my first jobs was in Italy and that's where I saw cocaine for the first time. There was a murder in our group that weekend. I decided then and there that I would never do drugs. I have anxiety attacks, so there's no way I could do them.” WayFirstsJobsSawsGroupsDrugAnxietyFirst TimeDecidedMurderWeekendCocaineAnxiety Attacks Author:Linda Evangelista
“If I can paraphrase Teilhard de Chardin for a moment, he said, or I will paraphrase in this way, 'When the human race understands the potential of the hallucinogenic drug experience, it will have discovered fire for the second time.'” IfsWayHumansSaidI CanMomentsRaceFireDrugHuman RaceParaphraseHallucinogenic Drugs Author:Terence McKenna
“One way of assessing the toxicity of a drug is how do you feel the next day?” WayFeelsNextDrugOne WayNext DayToxicityAssessing Author:Terence McKenna
“There is one-and only one-way to end the violence in Latin America. There is one-and only one-way to terminate the drug gangs. That way is by legalizing drugs. Legalizing drugs today would put an immediate end to the drug gangs and the drug-war violence.” WayWarEndsTodayAmericaViolenceDrugOne WayLatinGangLatin AmericaWar On DrugsLegalizing Drugs Author:Jacob G. Hornberger
“There is a safe, nontoxic drug called naloxone that can instantly reverse opioid overdose and prevent most of these deaths. But the drug war interferes with saving overdose victims in two ways: first, because witnesses to overdose fear prosecution, they often don't call for help until it's too late. Second, because the drug war supports the belief that making naloxone available over-the-counter or with opioid prescriptions would encourage drug use, the antidote is available only through harm reduction programs like needle exchanges or in some state programs aimed at drug users.” WayFirstsTwoWarStatesHelpingUseBeliefSupportDrugSafeLateProgramVictimAvailableHarmSavingWitnessToo LateUsersReverseInterfereAntidoteTwo WaysNeedlesReductionPrescriptionsWar On DrugsProsecutionDrug UseOverdoseOpioids Author:Maia Szalavitz
“Kylie Minogue - she's so great. You'd love her if you met her. Everyone would. In a way I wish everyone could, to see what a person she is. She's so sweet and no bull and really funny, man, really funny. The Rolling Stones are like a weight around your neck. All that..'you're not meant to rock after you're 30...you've got to die in a car crash or of a drug overdose.” IfsMenWayPersonsDiesWishRocksCarSweetMetsDrugStonesWeightNecksCrashRollingBullsRolling StonesOverdoseCar CrashFunny Men Author:Michael Hutchence
“Going to America increased the build up on me, especially as the war was going on there. In a way we'd turned out to be a Trojan horse. The 'Fab Four' moved right to the top and then sang about drugs and sex and then I got into more and more heavy stuff and that's when they started dropping us.” WayWarAmericaSexStuffFourDrugHorseMovedHeavyDroppingTrojansTrojan Horse Author:John Lennon
“[A 2005 response to doping allegations] Unfortunately, the witch hunt continues and tomorrow's article is nothing short of tabloid journalism. The paper even admits in its own article that the science in question here is faulty and that I have no way to defend myself. They state: 'There will therefore be no counter-exam nor regulatory prosecutions, in a strict sense, since defendant's rights cannot be respected.' I will simply restate what I have said many times: I have never taken performance enhancing drugs.” WaySaidStatesTakenRightsTomorrowDrugPaperPerformancesResponseJournalismWitchArticlesStrictHuntsExamTabloidsProsecutionAllegationsWitch HuntDopingPerformance Enhancing Drugs Author:Lance Armstrong
“I believe that God left certain drugs growing naturally upon our planet to help speed up and facilitate our evolution. OK, not the most popular idea ever expressed. Either that or you're all real high and agreeing with me in the only way you can right now. (Starts blinking)” WayBelieveIdeasRealHelpingCertainLeftI BelieveGrowingPlanetsEvolutionRight NowDrugSpeedOur PlanetFacilitate Author:Bill Hicks
“My mother would say, before I left the house, 'Remember Art, hugs are better than drugs.' And I believed my mother, I believed everything she said - until the first time I got high at a party. I leaned back, and I went, 'God, this is way better than when my Uncle Perry hugs me. What else has my mother been lying to me about?” WayFirstsArtSaidRememberLyingMotherHouseLeftPartyDrugFirst TimeHugUnclesLie To MeHug Me Author:Artie Lange
“Hugs are great, but - better than drugs? Come on. Let me put it to you this way: I never drove to Harlem at 4 a.m. to get somebody to hug me.” WayDrugLet MeHugHarlemHug Me Author:Artie Lange
“Prescription drugs and heroin act in very similar ways on the brain. And, unfortunately, heroin, because of its widespread availability is a lot cheaper.” WayBrainDrugCheaperPrescriptionsHeroinAvailabilityPrescription Drugs Author:Michael Botticelli
“The way that these girls keep themselves skinny is awful, isn't it? By vomiting or using hard drugs - which I can't afford.” WayI CanHardGirlDrugAwfulSkinnyVomiting Author:Amy Schumer
“There are certain jokes that indicate how mainstream a comic is. If you're talking about how the side effects of drugs that they advertise on TV are worse than the actual illness they're supposed to prevent, that's like the hackiest joke out there now. If you're still doing that joke, that usually is an indicator of being mainstream, in a bad way.” IfsWayStillsCertainSidesTalkingEffectsTvsDrugJokesIllnessComicMainstreamSide EffectsIndicators Author:Gary Gulman
“But sports carried me away from being in a gang, or being associated with drugs. Sports was my way out.” WaySportsDrugMy WayGang Author:LeBron James
“Basically, I wanted redemption for the way I lived my life beforehand, and that was the drugs, the drink, the loose sex, whatever.” WayWantedSexDrinkDrugRedemption Author:Elton John
“There's lots of ways people can be dependent, on another person, or drugs.” PeopleWayPersonsDrugDependent Author:Elliott Smith
“People say what distinguishes us from the animals is that we think. Well, then why the hell don't we extend some compassion to those under tremendous duress? There's this whole idea that you work really hard so you can deaden your soul to the universe and enjoy yourself only in ways the Sierra Club will let you. But what about enjoying yourself by getting into the whole melee of poverty and racism and violence and murder and drug addiction? Get in there, roll up your sleeves, and do something! Nobody does it.” PeopleThinkingWayWellsDoeIdeasSoulHardWholeUniverseEnjoyAnimalCompassionPovertyHellViolenceDrugRacismMurderAddictionClubsYour SoulSleevesDrug AddictionDrug AddictSierraEnjoy YourselfDuress Author:Jimmy Santiago Baca
“You're not going to have the police force representing the black and brown community, if they've spent the last 30 years busting every son and daughter and father and mother for every piddling drug offense that they've ever done, thus creating a mistrust in the community. But at the same time, you should be able to talk about abuses of power, and you should be able to talk about police brutality and what, in some cases, is as far as I'm concerned, outright murder and outright loss of justice without the police organization targeting you in the way that they have done me.” IfsWayShouldYearsDoneAbleLastsMotherFatherForceBlackCommunityJusticeLossCasesSonDrugCreatingDaughterConcernedOrganizationAbuseMurderPoliceBrownOffensePolice BrutalityBrutalityRepresentingMistrustAbuse Of PowerSon And DaughterPolice ForceBusting Author:Quentin Tarantino
“I write compulsively. I've got so many ideas, and I love to do it so much, I can't not do it. I write the way some people do drugs.” PeopleWayWritingI CanIdeasDrug Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“I think a lot of us who had these oddly shaped childhoods, in some ways we're hyper-capable. We're able to take care of ourselves in a lot of ways but it's like we're missing a piece. When everyone went to school to learn how to be a regular person we were sick that day. We compensate other ways. Alcohol and drugs is one of those ways. Instead of learning how to cope with our problems and deal with hardship and deal with anger, we just decide to get drunk and not care.” ThinkingWayPersonsProblemCareAbleSchoolDealsPiecesChildhoodMissingDrugCapableSickTake CareAlcoholDrunkHardshipHyper Author:Bucky Sinister
“In our childhoods we either get all the social and emotional and ethical skills we need to be well adjusted adults, or we don't. Some of us don't know how to tell someone we like them. A lot of us get depressed and get wasted. Why don't we do something that makes us feel better? Because we don't know any other way. When I didn't have enough skills I compensated with drugs and alcohol. It's like there was a hole in the wall and I put a poster over it.” KnowsWayNeedsFeelsWellsEnoughSocialKnow HowChildhoodEmotionalWallDrugSkillsAdultsOur ChildrenAlcoholHolesOver ItEthicalFeel BetterPostersDrugs And Alcohol Author:Bucky Sinister
“I guess the drinking and the drugs are interesting to me because the way we use them and our society uses them, we kind of manufacture highs and lows.” WayKindUseInterestingDrugLowsDrinkingOur SocietyHighs And Lows Author:Craig Finn
“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
“My father was raised by a violent alcoholic. There was alcoholism in my mother's family. I'm half-adopted, and my birth father was a drug addict and alcoholic. So, I think they very consciously made decisions and parented me in a way that was aimed to help save me from that. So, I knew it would be particularly painful and it was, especially for my father.” ThinkingWayMadeHelpingWould BeMotherFatherDecisionHalfBirthDrugRaisedPainfulViolentAddictAdoptedAlcoholismAlcoholicsDrug AddictSave Me Author:Melissa Febos
“The only way to shut out the voice of god and the angels is to act out addictively whether it’s alcohol or food or drugs, or behaviors...” WayVoiceDrugBehaviorAngelAlcoholVoice Of God Author:Doreen Virtue
“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
“At some point, that risk-taking private capital can take over, and have patents and trade secrets and things that let them lead the way, which happened with the steam engine and some other things, although with energy, the time of adoption is a lot longer than it is with, say, IT products or even medical advances, like drugs and vaccines.” WayEnergySecretRiskHappenedProductsDrugTradeMedicalEnginesAdoptionSteamVaccinesPatentsRisk-takingSteam EnginesMedical Advances Author:Bill Gates
“I'm not the kind of person who could join AA or have rules for myself or on Thursday take this vitamin pill. So, basically, I learned the hard way. I learned by trial and error, and tried to get drugs out of my work. That took about a year. If I was going to work, it was best that I be straight. And I was surprised at what came out.” IfsWayYearsKindPersonsHardDrugErrorsTrialsWorking ItGoing To WorkPillsVitaminsThursdayHard WayTrial And Error Author:Iggy Pop
“I was into punk, but I didn't go whole-hog. A lot of kids who grew up in small towns that were into punk music went the "safe" way - not doing drugs, being straight edge.” WayWholeKidsGrewDrugSafeGrew UpTownsEdgesPunkSmall TownHogStraight EdgePunk Music Author:Daughn Gibson
“When I was writing the book, I thought "Who wants to hear another story about some actor who lost his way?" But my story is a little unique in that I realized when I was 14 years old that I was different. I think a lot of gay people use drugs and alcohol to quell that fear and shame - especially people of my age.” PeopleThinkingWayWantWritingYearsLittlesBookDifferentStoriesUseAgeActorsLostGayDrugUniqueShameAlcoholI RealizedGay PeopleDrugs And Alcohol Author:Leslie Jordan
“Sometimes I wonder what will be the air conditioning of my dying days. What thing will they add that will make it impossible to be uncomfortable? Because I do assume that as an old person, I will be very comfortable. There will be something - a drug or some way to impact the air around me - that when I relax, I'm gonna feel great. So I do look forward to that.” WayFeelsLooksPersonsSometimesWonderImpossibleAirDyingDrugComfortableImpactAddAssumingUncomfortableRelaxConditioningSometimes I WonderAir ConditioningOld Person Author:Chuck Klosterman
“Johnny Depp already seen how alcohol and drugs can get in the way of a career. And you have to remember one thing: Johnny was a guitar player and a rock-and-roller way before he was an actor. When he came to Los Angeles, he came with his band.” WayRememberActorsCareersPlayerOne ThingRocksDrugBandGuitarAlcoholLos AngelesGuitar Player Author:Alice Cooper
“If I begin a poem, "I am a donkey," reason kicks in and says, "She is taking on the persona of a donkey." But if I write, "I have taken so many drugs I can't see my feet," the tendency is to take that as a confession on the part of the poet. Maybe that doesn't matter. I'd almost prefer for it to be the other way round.” IfsWayWritingI CanMatterReasonTakenFeetPoetDrugRoundsTendenciesKicksConfessionPersonaDonkey Author:Matthea Harvey
“My dad struggled with cocaine addiction, and we actually went to rehab with him too. I remember having extensive talks with him about how I was wired a certain way, how I wouldn't be able to drink and do drugs the same way my friends got to.” WayAbleRememberCertainDadDrinkDrugMy FriendsAddictionMy DadCocaineRehab Author:Ryan Montgomery
“I think a lot of people who were addicts are actually people who had that strong innate need to experience non-ordinary states of consciousness. But because our society has turned into this destructive culture of these horrible drugs that nullify you, they have that experience in a negative way. And then they lose that capacity forever, to have it in a positive way.” PeopleThinkingWayNeedsStatesCultureStrongLosesConsciousnessForeverDrugOrdinaryCapacityNegativeHorribleDestructiveOur SocietyAddictInnateStates Of Consciousness Author:Daniel Pinchbeck
“The romance of circumvention is one of the most destructive forces at work in our society. The American Idol freeway to greatness, Instagramming one's way into popular consciousness with selfies of our ass folds beneath short shorts, human growth hormone and performance-enhancing drugs for athletes, Adderall for the idle mind, reality television that sacrifices our dignity for fifteen lousy minutes.” WayMindHumansRealityRomanceForceGrowthConsciousnessSacrificeMinutesGreatnessTelevisionDrugDignityPerformancesAthleteAssDestructiveOur SocietyIdolsFifteenIdleFoldsHormonesShortsAmerican IdolFreewaysReality TelevisionPerformance Enhancing DrugsGrowth HormonesShort ShortsAdderall Author:Daniel Gillies
“We live in a society running from pain through alcohol, through too much exercise, through sugar, through drugs - as opposed to realizing that these things come up because they are lessons. It's a way to wake you up.” WayRunningPainRealizingToo MuchExerciseLessonsDrugCome UpAlcoholSugarWakes You Author:Mariel Hemingway
“The war on drugs causes other supplemental crimes to take place because of the original illegality of it. But then again, that's the other reason that they're fighting it is the corporate prisons they have now. Because they've privatized all our prisons, corporations have to make money, and the only way they can make money is, I believe, the prisons have to be at least 80-90 percent full. That's why the United States - which is home of the brave, land of the free - we have more people in prison than any other country in the world.” PeopleWorldWayBelieveWarCountryStatesReasonHomeFightingI BelieveCausesUnitedUnited StatesLandCrimeDrugPercentOriginalsPrisonBraveMaking MoneyCorporateCorporationsOther CountriesWar On DrugsLand Of The Free Author:Jesse Ventura
“I rebelled during my high school years really bad. I started messing around with drugs and having relationships with girls and partying. And I used to tell God, "Hey God, after college I'm going to serve You because I know that's what I want to do with my life. I know that's the best way. I know that's why I was created. But right now I want to sin because I love it. I want to have a lot of fun."” KnowsWayWantYearsSchoolUsedGirlFunSinPartyCollegeRight NowDrugHigh SchoolBest WayHeySchool Years Author:Dominic Balli
“Caesar [from the Rise of the Planet of the Apes] was brought up with human beings and because of the drug he had pretty much grown up with his whole life, he felt like an outsider, he felt trapped in an ape's body but he didn't really feel like an ape and that was my way into the character. So he's always had this duality playing him from an infant all the way to now as a fifty-five year old ape.” WayFeelsYearsHumansWholeCharacterBodyFeltHuman BeingsFivePlanetsDrugWhole LifeMy WayFive YearsFiftyTrappedOutsidersInfantApesDualityFive Year Olds Author:Andy Serkis
“People who have health insurance are benefiting in all sorts of ways that they may not be aware of, everything from no longer having lifetime limits on the claims that they can make to seniors getting prescription drug discounts under Medicare to free mammograms.” PeopleWayMayDrugLimitsClaimsLifetimeSeniorPrescriptionsMedicareDiscountsPrescription DrugsMammograms Author:Barack Obama
“You know, if a drug has anything going for it at all, it should be self-limiting. It should tell you when you've had enough. Acid and peyote were that way for me.” IfsKnowsWayShouldSelfEnoughDrugAcidHad EnoughGoing For ItPeyote Author:George Carlin
“It might be a little rough on some people for a while, but I think it's the only way to deal with drugs. Look at Prohibition: all it did was make a lot of criminals rich. Should be legalized for a matter of sanity.” PeopleThinkingWayShouldLooksLittlesMatterMightDealsRichDrugCriminalsRoughSanityProhibition Author:Hunter S. Thompson
“I mean, you take a look at this, it's one way. [Mexicans] get the jobs, they get the factories, they get the cash, and all we get - we get illegal immigration and we get drugs.” WayLooksMeanJobsDrugImmigrationOne WayIllegalCashFactoriesIllegal Immigration Author:Donald Trump
“There are many ways of communicating. Some hold the theory that new forms of communication between people can be obtained through hallucinogenic drugs.” PeopleWayFormTheoryCommunicationDrugCommunicateHallucinogenic Drugs Author:Michelangelo Antonioni
“The wave of punitiveness that washed over the United States with the rise of the drug war and the get tough movement really flooded our schools. Schools, caught up in this maelstrom, began viewing children as criminals or suspects, rather than as young people with an enormous amount of potential struggling in their own ways and their own difficult context to make it and hopefully thrive. We began viewing the youth in schools as potential violators rather than as children needing our guidance.” PeopleWayChildrenWarStatesSchoolYoungDifficultUnitedUnited StatesStruggleMovementYouthAmountDrugToughWaveCaughtCriminalsEnormousHopefullyGuidanceThriveSuspectsCaught UpWar On DrugsMaelstrom Author:Michelle Alexander
“The bigger picture is that over the last 30 years, we have spent $1 trillion waging a drug war that has failed in any meaningful way to reduce drug addiction or abuse, and yet has siphoned an enormous amount of resources away from other public services, especially education.” WayYearsWarLastsAmountDrugResourcesAbuseBiggerAddictionMeaningfulEnormousPublic ServiceDrug AddictionWar On DrugsDrug AddictBigger Picture Author:Michelle Alexander