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Dennis McKenna Ethnopharmacologist
Drug

"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"

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Tony Wilson Music Producer, Entrepreneur
Drug

"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."

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Malcolm Gladwell Journalist, Author
Drug

"An aggressive drug-testing program would cut down on certain abuses, but its never going to catch everyone - or even close to everyone."

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Elijah Cummings Politician
Drug

"By providing students in our Nation with such an education, we help save our children from the clutches of poverty, crime, drugs, and hopelessness, and we help safeguard our Nation's prosperity for generations yet unborn."

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Johnny Cash Musician, Singer-songwriter
Drug

"I have tried drugs and a little of everything else, and there is nothing in the world more soul-satisfying than having the kingdom of God building inside you and growing."

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Russell Pearce Politician
Drug

"You put me in charge of Medicaid, the first thing I'd do is get [female recipients] Norplant, birth-control implants, or tubal ligations. Then, we'll test recipients for drugs and alcohol, and if you want to [reproduce] or use drugs or alcohol, then get a job."

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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
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"The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people."

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Bill Hicks Comedian, Writer
Drug

"I believe that God left certain drugs growing naturally upon our planet to help speed up and facilitate our evolution."

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Mira Grant Author
Drug

"I've got no problem with octopuses. It's bugs and spiders that I don't like. Octopuses are cute, in their own 'nature did a lot of drugs' sort of way." - Becks"

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Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
Drug

"Television is by nature the dominator drug par excellence. Control of content, uniformity of content, repeatability of content make it inevitably a tool of coersion, brainwashing, and manipulation."

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Jean Cocteau Poet, Novelist, Playwright
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"Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death."

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