"I stopped taking drugs when I was 19, and who wants to drive a cab around New York with drugs in their car?"
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"I've seen the needle and the damage done."
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"I watched the needle take another man."
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"When I first tried out some hash, smoked some then. And I'll do it again, if only I had some cash."
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"It's all very hazy to me now. I'm glad I made it through that stage. It got a little dicey. There were some drugs going on. I remember singing one song for about a day and a half."
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"Medical men do not know the drugs they use, nor their prices."
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"Revelations: A curious record of the visions of a drug addict."
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"Sherlock Holmes was a drug addict without a single amiable trait."
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"If a drug has anything going for it at all, it should be self-limiting. It should tell you when you've had enough."
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"There is no reason to think today's levels of [drug] addiction are anywhere near the levels that would be reached under legalization."
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"In fact, when drugs are legalized, use sometimes goes down, it's been claimed. Part of the reason is that teenage kids use illicit drugs because they are illicit. They are thumbing their noses at society. If they were legal, they might not."
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"It's not in doubt that tobacco is far more lethal than hard drugs."
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"Today, aid to Colombia is given under the pretext of a drug war. That's pretty hard to take seriously. Ten years ago, Amnesty International flatly called it a myth."
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"I looked into [Prozac]. I must say that it is certainly a wonder drug."
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"I touched emotions I've never tapped in my entire life. I've heard people say, 'I hope this movie doesn't glamorise drugs."
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"In four days, I experienced five seasons. It was thirty, it was sixty, it was ninety, then it was twelve! And on the last day, there was thunder, lightning, and snow - together! And I hadn't done drugs."
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"I don’t know how you look at the inside of your head — what metaphor you choose — but for those of us with endless yawning stretches of interior and nothing but nothing to stop us from getting lost in it, drugs can be wonderfully helpful."
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"If I were a doctor, I would prescribe that you addict yourself deeply and irrevocably to music and never, ever seek cure outside of more music. It really is the best drug available."
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"I just get things done instead of talking about getting them done. I don't go out and party. I don't smoke, drink or do drugs and I'm not married, that leaves a lot of time for my work."
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"The gentle sound of her words became the shushing of my blood in my head, and I listened, hovering on the edge of consciousness, bathed in the oblivion of whatever drug they had given me."
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