The reason we are fighting the war on drugs is because we lost the war on poverty.
Drugs Quotes
No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we’re looking for the sources of our troubles, we shouldn’t test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed, and love of power.
One pill makes you taller, And one pill makes you small. And the ones that mother gives you, Don’t do anything all.
Like many men of my generation, I had an opportunity to give war a chance, and I promptly chickened out. I went to my draft physical in 1970 with a doctor’s letter about my history of drug abuse. The letter was four and a half pages long with three and a half pages devoted to […]
If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a ‘fix’ of something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than cocaine.
(It’s said that hallucinogenic drugs give insight) But just what kind of insight are we talking about here? Are we talking about the Second Law of Thermodynamics? Or are we talking about “Oh wow, like, I finally realized that, deep down inside, I’m me.”?
That’s all drugs and alcohol do, they cut off your emotions in the end.
I go to this heart specialist, you know, give him a hundred dollars for the relief of my heart. He treats me, don’t do no good; my heart is still messed up. I go to this ulcer man, give him seventy-five dollars to cool my ulcers out; it don’t do no good. There’s a little […]
Some drugs have been appropriately called “wonder drugs,” inasmuch as one wonders what they will do next.
Razors pain you; – Rivers are damp; – Acids stain you; – And drugs cause cramp. – Guns aren’t lawful; – Nooses give; – Gas smells awful; – You might as well live.
