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"Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few of the problems that disappear from public view when the human beings contending with them are relegated to cages."
"Rolling down the street, smoking indo, sippin' on gin and juice."
"We are a nation of many nationalities, many races, many religions-bound together by a single unity, the unity of freedom and equality. Whoever seeks to set one nationality against another, seeks to degrade all nationalities."
"First comes the cash, then comes the ass, then come big blunts with chunks of hash."
"I did a lot of drugs. I didn't do multiple drugs, but I overindulged in whatever drug of choice."
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"Although we take it for granted, sanitation is a physical measure that has probably done more to increase human life span than any kind of drug or surgery."
"I'm living everyday like a hustle. Another drug to juggle. Another day, another struggle."
"I do not take drugs. I am drugs."
"Wasting away again in Margaritaville, searching for my lost shaker of salt."
"Now they're calling taking drugs an epidemic - that's cos white folks are doing it."
"It's so easy for a kid to join a gang, to do drugs. We should make it that easy to be involved in football and academics."
"Drug companies are a bit like high school boyfriends - they're much more concerned with getting inside you than being effective once they're in there."
"Many kids can tell you about drugs but do not know what celery or courgettes taste like."
"Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all."
"Instead of war on poverty, they got a war on drugs so the police can bother me."
"Why is there such controversy about drug testing? I know plenty of guys who'd be willing to test any drug they can come up with."
"Everyone has favorite criminals. Mine are pimps. We can all rob a bank; we can all sell drugs. Being a pimp is a whole other thing."
"It's not a war on drugs, it's a war on personal freedom."
"Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I'm in a coma."
"When they took the Fourth Amendment, I was silent because I don't deal drugs. When they took the Sixth Amendment, I kept quiet because I know I'm innocent. When they took the Second Amendment, I said nothing because I don't own a gun. Now they've come for the First Amendment, and I can't say anything at all."
"Faster, Faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death."
"I get frustrated with people who say that a drug experience can have no spiritual validity. I'm here to tell you that all experience is a drug experience. We're all on drugs all the time, largely because we are MADE of drugs"
"Most of all, I love Manchester. The crumbling warehouses, the railway arches, the cheap abundant drugs. That's what did it in the end. Not the money, not the music, not even the guns. That is my heroic flaw: my excess of civic pride."
"An aggressive drug-testing program would cut down on certain abuses, but its never going to catch everyone - or even close to everyone."
"I'm on performance enhancing drugs, so I may cause drowsiness."
