"I think hard drugs are disgusting. But I must say, I think marijuana is pretty lightweight."
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"I smoke marijuana every chance I get."
"Junk is the ideal product... the ultimate merchandise. No sales talk necessary. The client will crawl through a sewer and beg to buy."
"Music is fulfilling. The next day you feel better. Drugs, the next day you feel terrible -- unless you have more drugs."
"Cocaine eyes won't hide your face."
"The seven dwarfs were each on different little trips. Happy was into grass and grass alone. Happy, that's all he did. Sleepy was into reds. Grumpy, too much speed. Sneezy was a full blown coke freak. Doc was a connection. Dopey was into everything. Any old orifice will do for Dopey. He's always got his arm out and his leg up. And then, the one we always forget, because he was Bashful. Bashful didn't use drugs. He was paranoid on his own. Didn't need any help on that ladder."
"Helping other people is a drug so dangerous that there is no cure short of total abstention."
"I don't respond well to mellow, you know what I mean, I have a tendency to... if I get too mellow, I ripen and then rot."
"Admittedly or not, conscious or unconscious, the poetic state, a transcendent experience of life, is what the public is fundamentally seeking through love, crime, drugs, war, or insurrection."
"The pro-psychedelic plant position is clearly an antidrugs position. Drug dependencies are the result of habitual, unexamined, and obsessive behavior; these are precisely the tendencies in our psychological makup that the psychedelics mitigate. The plant hallucinogens dissolve habits and hold motivations up to inspection by a wider, less egocentric, and more grounded point of view within the individual."
"Sleep is like a drug. Take too much at a time and it makes you dopey. You lose time and opportunities."
"And as far as I'm concerned, it's like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem."
"Drugs are a bet with your mind."
"You never think you're on the verge of disaster while you're looking over the edge yourself. It's your friends and family who are trying to get you to stop destroying yourself and after a while it kind of sank in and I just cleaned up my act."
"The one who has the little need is the one who controls the whole relationship. You can see this dynamic so clearly because usually in every relationship there is one who loves the most and the other who doesn’t love, who only takes advantage of the one who gives his or her heart. You can see the way they manipulate each other, their actions and reactions, and they are just like the provider and the drug addict."
"I do a lot of things wrong. I lose my temper, and I hate waiting in line, but do I take drugs? No."
"I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota."
"I don't like people who take drugs... Customs men for example."
"I regarded drugs as somewhat like rattlesnakes - it's possible to pick one up without getting bit, but why bother?"
"Often young black people are looking towards the alternative economies. They are looking towards the drug economy.... the economies that are going to that apparently will produce some kind of material gain for them."