"The psychedelic viewpoint is becoming more and more legitimate, but psychedelic drugs are not. That's the odd paradox of it."
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"I think with the work we do with these drugs we are the earliest pioneers in what over the next 100 years will lead to an understanding of consciousness almost as a thing apart from the monkey body and brain."
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"What we drug people have, that you don't, is repeatability."
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"I'm not an advocate of drugs. I'm an advocate of psychedelics."
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"I can't think of a society on Earth where people don't take drugs that any of us would want anything to do with."
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"What foods are, essentially, are idea-neutral drugs."
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"An interesting thing about drugs is often, when a new drug is discovered, it takes a long time to figure out how do you do it."
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"Television is, to my mind, the most insidious drug that the 20th Century has had to deal with."
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"Real children do not go hoppity skip unless they are on drugs."
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"The author isn't altogether certain that there is any such thing as exaggeration. Our brains permit us to use such a wee fraction of their resources that, in a sense, everything we experience is a reduction. We employ drugs, yoga techniques and poetics - and a thousand more clumsy methods - in an effort just to bring things back up to normal."
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"Ever since I was an itty bitty kitty, been drinking liquor out of Mama's titty."
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"Speeding is like drugs. It makes everything come at you fast, and when you go back to normal driving, safe driving, prudent driving, it seems boring. That's the danger of drugs. At first it's intoxicating, but then the rest of your life you're trying to find that very first time. It never is the same."
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"A drug for everything is madness. Legal or not, prescribed or not, over-counter under-counter bought for blood on street-corners-every pill separates us from knowing our own completion and from being taught by what's true."
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"I didn't even think I would make it that long. I thought I would drug overdose, like Jimi Hendrix. I thank God every day to even be here."
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"It's the music that pulls me in and makes me forget about my problems at home. Music is my drug, the one thing that makes me numb."
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"Black folks don't have a chance, so they are in the hood, dealing drugs, in a shoot-out. They do it again and one more time they are out."
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"I never understood why people take drugs. They're habit forming and they can kill you. I didn't need anything to pep me up or make me feel more creative, and I didn't need them to help me with women."
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"I think what everybody believes and agrees with, and to be frank myself, is that the current approach [to the drug trade] is not working, but it is not clear what we should do."
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"Well, I'm like a drug addict, I'm always saying I'm going to stop, and then I don't, what I've said consistently is that I hope I know when to stop: when it starts to get repetitive."
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"Roland could not understand why anyone would want cocaine or any other illegal drug, for that matter, in a world where such a powerful one as sugar was so plentiful and cheap."
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