"I think drugs are part of the magical possibilities of youth and I wouldn't be here if I had continued with it."
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"In the ’70s it was skateboards, in the ’80s it was drugs, in the ’90s it was art, and now it’s my family."
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"Drugs didn't work out too well for me."
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"Marijuana... That's not a drug, that's a plant."
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"It's very difficult to have any faith in the sincerity of the SLORC about stamping out drug production if they find it so easy to forgive a drug baron whom at one time they said they would never, never forgive and would never, never regard as anything but a drug runner. The SLORC is far more aggressive in its attitude toward the National League for Democracy than against drug traffickers."
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"Modern medicine has created more co-dependents even than co-pays. We've learned to hold out for a magic bullet such as a new miracle drug, breakthrough surgical procedure or new organ transplant. What rubbish."
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"If you decide you want to change your life around, it doesn't matter where you came from, what you did, if you were incarcerated or you are from the projects, if you are an uppity kid who came from a really wealthy family - and all of them do drugs and are into that life - it doesn't matter; come as you are, and God does his work."
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"For instance, they [The Federal Narcotics Bureau ] give out that marijuana is a harmful and habit-forming drug, and it simply isn't. They claim that you can get addicted to opiates with one shot, and you can't. They over-estimate the physical bad effects, and so forth."
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"I certainly wouldn't advocate anyone using drugs on a regular or habitual basis."
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"Only yesterday mankind lived in fear of the scourges of smallpox, cholera and plague that once swept nations before them. Now our major concern is no longer with the disease organisms that once were omnipresent; sanitation, better living conditions, and new drugs have given us a high degree of control over infectious disease. Today we are concerned with a different kind of hazard that lurks in our environment-a hazard we ourselves have introduced into our world as our modern way of life has evolved."
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"Luckily we never injected because both of us were totally scared about needles. So that probably saved us. And the other thing that saved us was our connection was not very good."
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"Regarding drugs: just the existence of drugs seems troubling to me."
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"What is happening to human resources in Punjab. Seven out of 10 youth have the problem of drugs."
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"The terror of drugs is a terror of giving up control. This is what people are most alarmed about by psychedelics, is the giving up control."
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"The drug may not be toxic, but you may be self-toxic, and you may discover this in the drug experience."
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"I really think there is a very large distinction between synthetic and naturally occurring drugs. ... I think that these plants 'take people' as much as people take the plants. ... When you take one of these ancient, ancient hallucinogens you are locking in to the morphogenetic fields of all the people who ever took it."
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"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.'"
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"The sine qua non for obtaining a psychedelic experience is humbling yourself to the point where you admit that you must submit to the experience of the plant or the drug. This act of surrender is the major technical function you will be called upon to perform during the psychedelic trip."
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"The danger is [in using psychedelic drugs], just to put it out there, is madness."
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"Apparently, in the Avesta classical period no one would have dreamed of having a spiritual experience without resort to drugs."
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