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Robin Williams Actor, Comedian
Drug

"There's this thing called freebasing. It's not free, it costs you your home. It should be called 'homebasing'."

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Steve King Politician
Drug

"I've spent a fair amount of time down at the worlder. I've been down there and helped arrest people that are smuggling drugs in."

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Steve Martin Comedian, Actor, Writer
Drug

"I can understand the drug thing. So they feel that it's more important to take the drugs than to do a good show for the people."

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Steve Young American Football Player
Drug

"I was such a heavy drinker I was going to die at age 37. Not to mention the drugs. I'm glad to be sober, I haven't missed a thing. A lot of people never get the chance to come back."

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Rory Carroll Journalist
Drug

"Chávez inadvertently made the US drug war tactics look good. Quite a feat, given the disaster which is the drug war. After expelling the DEA (not necessarily a bad thing, given its record in Colombia and elsewhere), he failed to devise a credible strategy for Venezuela."

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Russell Brand Comedian, Actor
Drug

"When I first became famous in the United Kingdom it was helpful because it meant there wasn't a spite of 'this bloke's a drug addict,' 'this bloke f**ks all these women' because I was just making jokes about all those things already, so it made me some kind of incorruptible indefatigable, indestructible force."

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Russell Brand Comedian, Actor
Drug

"I'm a recovering drug addict, so it's not a subject that I take lightly, but I do agree that the criminalization of narcotics is the deliberate inhibition of human consciousness."

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Russell Simmons Entrepreneur, Music Producer
Drug

"If you talk about the prison-industrial complex, I've fought against the prison-industrial complex when I called for a repeal of the Rockefeller drug laws. The biggest impediment to get the laws changed was the lobbyists. Whether you're talking about healthcare, jobs going overseas, or tax reform, you're always coming up against lobbyists."

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Stephen King Author
Drug

"I don't ask myself, "Well, does God exist or does God not exist?" I choose to believe that God exists, and therefore I can say, "God, I can't do this by myself. Help me not to take a drink today. Help me not to take a drug today." And that works fine for me."

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Laura Huxley Author
Drug

"How can we speak about "drugs"? It is like speaking about the human race - each person is different, each drug is different!"

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Gary Murray Professional golfer
Drug

"It's sweeping through our society faster than crack. [Except] with crack you could say, 'These people over here are doing it, adn these people aren't.' You can't do that with Ecstacy now. Everyone's doing it."

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