“Shortly before my arrest, my girlfriend at the time, who's now my wife of ten years, told me she was quitting drugs and going to church. I went with her once but that was it. After the arrest, I didn't know what I was going to do. She told me to trust in God but I mean, I was looking at ten years and was like, "God? I'm not dying, I need a lawyer. I need bail."” KnowsNeedsYearsMeanChurchWifeDyingDrugTenMy WifeLawyerQuittingGirlfriendTrust In GodMy GirlfriendBailGoing To Church Author:Christian Hosoi
“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
“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
“I believe that at birth everyone gets the capacity for a certain amount of drugs and alcohol, everyone the same, you can do it all between 15 and 19 like I did, or you can stretch it out over 70 years.” YearsBelieveCertainI BelieveCan DoAmountBirthDrugCapacityAlcoholYou Can Do ItDrugs And Alcohol Author:Fran Lebowitz
“My primary reason for bringing my son on was to have a voice on the show [Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll] that would bring a 25 or 26 year old point of view to it, and my son is very capable of writing that stuff.” WritingYearsReasonShowsSexStuffVoiceViewsRocksSonDrugCapablePoint Of ViewPrimariesMy SonSex Drugs Author:Denis Leary
“In 1970, there were approximately 330,000 prisoners in the US. Today there are 2.3 million behind bars - more than any country in the history of the world. In 2009 alone there were 1.6 million drug-related arrests in the U.S. 1.3 million of these were for possession of drugs alone. Over half were related to marijuana. The forty-year war on drugs has cost $2.5 trillion.” WorldYearsWarCountryTodayBehindsHalfMillionsCostDrugPossessionBarsRelatedFortyPrisonerMarijuanaWorld HistoryWar On Drugs Author:Sam Branson
“Most of the so-called illegal drugs have vastly increased in use, despite billions of dollars spent suppressing them. I believe 750,000 Americans are arrested every year for possession of cannabis. I mean that's 750, 000 lives damaged by that arrest process. It's a crazy, crazy system. It's playing into the system that the hallucinogens are grouped together with addictive drugs, which they are not. But addictive or not it's our responsibility as adults to make decisions and it's not the states' right to do that, in my opinion.” YearsBelieveMeanStatesUseTogetherI BelieveProcessDecisionResponsibilityOpinionCrazyDrugAdultsDollarsPossessionBillionsDespiteIllegalArrestedCannabisSuppressingIllegal DrugsHallucinogens Author:Graham Hancock
“The war on drugs has gone on for about forty-five, fifty years - and it's been a complete failure. If you had a business that was failing so badly, you would change course. And it's just incredible that governments continue along the same course.” IfsYearsWarGovernmentCoursesGoneFiveFailingDrugIncrediblesFiftyFortyWar On Drugs Author:Richard Branson
“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
“I used to do drugs in high school. I've been living in L.A. for almost 10 years, and shortly after I arrived I cleaned up pretty much. Stuff goes on on the set, stuff goes on at parties.” YearsSchoolUsedStuffPartyGoes OnDrugHigh School Author:Michelle Pfeiffer
“For many years, they said the drug lords in Colombia were unbeatable, but all the same, we've eliminated all the big capos (as the drug lords are called in Colombia). The homicide rate is as low as it was 40 years ago and the kidnapping rate has dropped to the level of 1964. Now we'll be able to bring down the street criminals specializing in extortion and robbery.” YearsSaidBigsAbleLevelsLordStreetsDrugLowsYears AgoRateCriminalsThey SaidColombiaRobberyKidnappingHomicideUnbeatableExtortion Author:Juan Manuel Santos
“What does have a chance of becoming law is a process that begins with securing the border. Currently the border is not secure and not just immigrants are coming across, but also drugs, weapons a whole series of problems. And I think that if you can prove to the American people that illegal immigration is under control, I think that the American people are willing to do something very reasonable about people who have been here for many years, who are not criminals, who are going to pay a fine, who are going to pay taxes, who are working.” PeopleIfsThinkingYearsDoeHas BeensWholeProblemLawProcessChancePayWillingFineBecomingDrugProveTaxesWeaponsSeriesCriminalsImmigrationSecureBordersReasonableImmigrantsIllegalIllegal Immigration Author:Marco Rubio
“I cracked a child prostitution ring - I'd worked with three vice cops every day for months, out on the street, in the cold, trying to track down the pervs and the young girls being prostituted.We finally got the convictions.Six or seven months later, I was working, and I glanced up at the TV, and it was a report on a federal case.It was all three of them, in federal court, in handcuffs. Every time they busted a drug lord or a doper, they'd take all their money and their jewelry and flat screens before sending them to jail. They had been stealing from dopers for years!” TryingYearsChildrenYoungGirlThreeLordCasesStreetsTvsMonthsColdDrugSixCourtSevenTrackVicesConvictionScreensRingsStealingReportsFlatsJailCopProstitutionJewelryCrackedBustedHandcuffsSeven MonthsPervs Author:Nancy Grace
“What a pleasure to hear Michael Savage backtalk to Hillary [Clinton]. You know, there is such hypocrisy with her. I didn't start out as a Clinton basher; I started out hopeful years ago. What she's doing here is merely damage control because her drugs have come under criticism.” KnowsYearsPleasureDrugYears AgoCriticismClintonDamageHypocrisyHopefulSavagesBashersDamage Control Author:Peter Breggin
“[Hillary Clinton] is giving money to N.I.M.H. [National Institute for Mental Health] ultimately to conduct more experiments on two- to four-year-olds. What they're going to do is conduct a lot of clinical studies which actually drug two- to four-year-olds.” GivingYearsTwoStudyFourDrugMental HealthClintonExperimentsFour YearsInstituteClinicalsGiving Money Author:Peter Breggin
“Today, aid to Colombia is given under the pretext of a drug war. That's pretty hard to take seriously. Ten years ago, Amnesty International flatly called it a myth.” YearsWarHardTodayGivenDrugTenYears AgoInternationalMythAidsWar On DrugsPretextColombiaAmnestyAmnesty International Author:Noam Chomsky
“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
“Actually, social drug-taking went kind of low-key for a couple of years. Probably because of AIDS, people got very conscious of their health. But it seems to be making a comeback. Just the other night I was at a party where people kept disappearing into the bathroom every few minutes. I'm glad I did all that in my 20s and that I'm done with it. And that I wrote about it in Postcards from the Edge.” PeopleYearsKindDoneSeemsNightSocialPartyMinutesKeysCoupleDrugLowsConsciousEdgesDisappearAidsGladBathroomComebackPostcardsLow KeyDrug Taking Author:Carrie Fisher
“I'd never written nonfiction about the war on drugs, but I know a tremendous amount about it: I taught a class on it for seven years. I was putting into words the stuff I was teaching, and I was writing it up and thought, "Dude, you're writing a book."” KnowsWritingYearsBookWarStuffClassWrittenTeachingTaughtAmountDrugSevenNonfictionSeven YearsWriting A BookWar On Drugs Author:Ayelet Waldman
“I was a federal public defender during the most important years of the drug war. I saw people go to jail for nothing, and go to jail for a long time.” PeopleYearsLongImportantWarSawsDrugLong TimeJailDefendersWar On Drugs Author:Ayelet Waldman
“I don't think we should be putting first-time drug offenders in jail for five years. It's a waste of resources.” ThinkingShouldYearsFirstsFiveDrugWasteResourcesFirst TimeFive YearsJailOffenders Author:Charles Schumer
“I support the death penalty for the kingpin, the guy at the top, but I don't think you should throw a drug offender in jail for five years, and let a mugger out after a year.” ThinkingShouldYearsGuySupportFiveDrugFive YearsJailPenaltiesDeath PenaltyOffendersMuggers Author:Charles Schumer
“There are a very small number of doctors in France that use essential oils and herbs as well as conventional drugs in their treatments and sometimes they will use essential oils intensively, usually because they are treating people with cancer or chronic infections that patients have had for years, and ingested essential oils are a really a great choice for treating chronic infections if you're a doctor.” PeopleIfsYearsWellsSometimesUseChoicesNumbersDrugEssentialsDoctorsPatientCancerOilFranceTreatmentConventionalHerbsInfectionSmall NumbersPeople With CancerEssential Oils Author:Robert Tisserand
“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
“When people fall in love, there´s period of up to three years during which the zeal and infatuation ride at a peak. The internal signals in the body and breain are literally a love drug. And then it beginds to decline. From this perspective, we are preprogramed to lose interest in a sexual partner after the time required to raise a child has passed - which is, on average, about 4 years.” PeopleYearsChildrenBodyFallThreeInterestLosesPerspectivePeriodsDrugRaisesFalling In LoveAveragePartnersInternalsThree YearsDeclineSignalsInfatuationZeal Book:Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain Source: Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain
“Somebody said to me this morning, 'To what do you attribute your longevity?' I don't know. I mean, I couldn't have planned my life out better. By all accounts I should be dead! The abuse I put my body through: the drugs, the alcohol, the lifestyle I've lived the last 30 years!” KnowsShouldYearsMeanSaidBodyLastsMorningDrugAbuseAccountsAlcoholLifestyleAttributesLongevityGood Morning Author:Ozzy Osbourne
“For years the league has thought I've been on drugs. I would have burned out a long time ago if that was true.” IfsYearsLongDrugBasketballLong TimeLeagueBurnedLong Time AgoBurned Out Author:Dennis Rodman
“President Obama is closing the prescription drug doughnut hole. He strengthened Medicare! He extended the life of the program by eight years. And what Governor Romney and Congressman Ryan won’t admit is that their plan would require current seniors to pay, on average, $600 more each year for prescription drugs.” YearsPresidentPayPlansDrugProgramAverageCurrentsEightHolesPresident ObamaGovernorsSeniorClosingRomneyPrescriptionsMedicareCongressmanDoughnutPrescription DrugsGovernor Romney Author:Debbie Wasserman Schultz
“There were a lot of drugs. We kinda just passed the time that way. For a couple of years we were all doin' anything we could get our hands on.” WayYearsHandsCoupleDrug Author:Layne Staley
“Food during my early years was a very difficult issue for me. I grew up in an addictive family. My mother had serious problems with alcohol and prescription drugs. I was an overweight kid. I can remember back in those days there weren't the strategies that there are today to deal with those issues.” YearsI CanProblemKidsTodayRememberMotherDifficultDealsIssuesSeriousGrewDrugGrew UpStrategyAlcoholPrescriptionsOverweightPrescription Drugs Author:Tom Vilsack
“I have argued for years that we do not have a health care system in America. We have a disease-management system - one that depends on ruinously expensive drugs and surgeries that treat health conditions after they manifest rather than giving our citizens simple diet, lifestyle and therapeutic tools to keep them healthy.” GivingYearsCareAmericaSimpleConditionsHealthDependsCitizensHealthyDrugDiseaseToolsTreatsManagementLifestyleHealth CareTherapyDietsUsaExpensiveTreatmentManifestHealthcareHealthy LivingPhysiciansSurgeryHealthy LifestyleTherapeuticHealth Care SystemAlternative MedicineManagement Systems Author:Andrew Weil
“Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, and devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad.” IfsThinkingMenWorldYearsArtStillsRealHardFiveStreetsCrimeCircumstancesDrugTenDiseaseMy FamilyTwentiesMovedChinaRevengeMartial ArtsDevotedDealerTwenty FiveMonasteriesDrug DealersBeing BadWiping Out Author:Neal Stephenson
“I'm sick of the ignorance that lack of funding has generated, of the fathers who apporach me at dinner parties with their four-year-old girls clasped to their pant legs and say, "Yeah, but studies say kids can buy drugs more easily than they can buy alcohol." To which I always respond, "I guess that means you keep heroin in your liquor cabinet?” YearsMeanKidsGirlFatherPartyStudyFourIgnoranceDrugSickYeahLegsDinnerAlcoholFour YearsFundingLiquorCabinetsHeroinDinner Party Author:Koren Zailckas
“Where did this come from? Do you know what this is? Luca is going to sneak out of bed in the middle of the night and squirt it on his tongue. It's like drugs for ten-year-olds. Today it's Ice Magic. Tomorrow, heroin.” KnowsYearsTodayNightMagicMiddleTomorrowDrugBedTenTongueIceDo You KnowHeroinSneakMiddle Of The Night Book:Saving Francesca Source: Saving Francesca