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Now here's somebody who wants to smoke a marijuana cigarette. If he's caught, he goes to jail. Now i...

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This plea comes from the bottom of my heart. Every friend of freedom, and I know you are one, must b...

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He was falling between glacial walls, he didn't know how anyone could fall so far away from everyone...

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Nelson AlgrenThe Man With the Golden Arm

Clockers" asks--almost in passing, and there's a lot more to it than this--a pretty interesting ques...

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Fame is the worst pain known to man. It’s stronger than heroin.

I think it is important for our society to wonder why it has lately become so ready to accept that h...

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Peter HitchensThe War We Never Fought: The British Establishment's Surrender to Drugs

Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving c...

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Spray a bug with a toxin and it dies; spray a man, spray his brain, and he becomes an insect that cl...

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This has been a novel about some people who were punished entirely too much for what they did. They ...

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We're all dreaming,” Arctor said. If the last to know he's an addict is the addict, then maybe the l...

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I used to condemn junkies, like they could get off the stuff if they really wanted to, and that is j...

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Philip K. DickPhilip K. Dick: The Last Interview and Other Conversations

I'm not an addictive personality, I just like getting high, that's all.

A lady that I know just came from Colombia. She laughed because I did not understand. She held out s...

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History, as taught by schools, has white washed the drunkenness out of the past. It has minimized th...

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Robert EvansA Brief History of Vice: How Bad Behavior Built Civilization

Cocaine is God's way of telling you you are making too much money.

You want to know the truth about drugs? You can only go one or two ways. You can go up, or you can g...

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RuPaulLettin it All Hang Out: An Autobiography

Even as a junkie I stayed true [to vegetarianism] - 'I shall have heroin, but I shan't have a hambur...

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Everyone should eat hashish, but only once.

The same as a cigarette?" asked Rita excitedly, as Mrs. Sin bent over her."The same, but very, very ...

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I was making frequent use of cocaine at that time ... I had been the first to recommend the use of c...

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Sigmund FreudThe Interpretation of Dreams

I had thought about cocaine in a kind of day-dream.

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Sigmund FreudThe Interpretation of Dreams

The problems of today's youth were no longer a Sunday supplement, or a news broadcast, or anything s...

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There'a a phrase, "the elephant in the living room", which purports to describe what it's like to li...

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The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-in...

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Stephen KingOn Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

I really, really wanted to be successful in my life just based on me and my mind alone…I didn’t ever...

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Ecstasy is a complex emotion containing elements of joy, fear, terror, triumph, surrender, and empat...

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I think of going to the Grave without having a Psychedelic Experience is like going to the Grave wit...

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No other drug can compete with cannabis for its ability to satisfy the innate yearnings for Archaic ...

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We can begin the restructuring of thought by declaring legitimate what we have denied for so long. L...

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Terence McKennaFood of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge

here was the secret of happiness, about which philosophers had disputed for so many ages, at once di...

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Thomas De QuinceyConfessions of an English Opium Eater

The Doper's DreamLast night I dreamed I was plugged right inTo a bubblin' hookah so high,When all of...

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The ceremonial differentiation of the dietary is best seen in the use of intoxicating beverages and ...

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Thorstein VeblenThe Theory of the Leisure Class

LSD is a psychedelic drug which occasionally causes psychotic behavior in people who have NOT taken ...

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If you want your tree to produce plenty o' fruit, you've got to cut it back from time to time. Same ...

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In ordinary perception, the senses send an overwhelming flood of information to the brain, which the...

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We're taking a ride down the Kashirksy Highway

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Victor PelevinThe Sacred Book of the Werewolf

Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is ...

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Perhaps the perusal of such works may, without injustice, be compared with the use of opiates, banef...

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People use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or dull. They hate ...

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Wendell BerryThe Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

The amount of money and of legal energy being given to prosecute hundreds of thousands of Americans ...

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To begin with, there is an almost compulsive promiscuity associated with homosexual behavior. 75% of...

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When you stop growing you start dying. An addict never stops growing. – A user is a continual state ...

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Whether you sniff it smoke it eat it or shove it up your ass the result is the same: addiction.

A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.

Junk turns the user into a plant. Plants do not feel pain since pain has no function in a stationary...

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Junk sickness is the reverse side of junk kick. The kick of junk is that you have to have it. Junkie...

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A junkie spends half his life waiting.

You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere.

I don’t spot junk neighbourhoods by the way they look, but by the feel, somewhat the same process by...

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In the City Market is the Meet Café. Followers of obsolete, unthinkable trades doodling in Etruscan,...

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LSD was an incredible experience. Not that I’m recommending it for anybody else; but for me it kind ...

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It wasn't so much all the sex that robbed me of my moral bearings, but all the narcotics. I must say...

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She shook her head. "It sounds suspiciously like Nirvana." "What's wrong with that?" "Pure Spirit, o...

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There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol....

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She it is, she, that found meIn the morphia honeymoon;With silk and steel she bound meIn her poisono...

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Aleister CrowleyDiary of a Drug Fiend

Stab your demoniac smile to my brain,Soak me in cognac, love, and cocaine

Until you've got your mouth full of cocaine, you don't know what kissing is. One kiss goes on from p...

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I would rather go mad, gone down the dark road to Mexico, heroin dripping in my veins, eyes and ears...

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In the old days, farmers would keep a little of their home-made opium for their families, to be used...

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My attraction to drugs is based on an immense desire to annihilate awareness.

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Anaïs NinHenry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin

I've wanted to feel pleasure to the point of insanity. They call it getting high, because it's wanti...

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She wasn't about to go down that road herself, which was a testament to her spiritual awakening and ...

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I didn't care if he was a genius or a fucking idiot, he was rotting away, and it wasn't fun to watch...

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Classifying depression as an illness serves the psychiatric community and pharmaceutical corporation...

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Nothing could exceed his energy when the working fit was upon him: but now and again a reaction woul...

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Arthur Conan DoyleA Study in Scarlet

You haven’t lived till you’ve played Scrabble in a psych ward.

Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade...

All laws which can be violated without doing any one any injury are laughed at. Nay, so far are they...

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The youth of Idaho falls should be encouraged to take drugs in order to cope up with the fact that t...

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Bill BrysonThe Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America

The idea of getting a, you know, syringe full of heroin and shooting it in the vein under my cock ri...

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I'm glad mushrooms are against the law, because I took them one time, and you know what happened to ...

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They lie about marijuana. Tell you pot-smoking makes you unmotivated. Lie! When you're high, you can...

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If you want to understand a society, take a good look at the drugs it uses. And what can this tell y...

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I loved when Bush came out and said, 'We are losing the war against drugs.' You know what that impli...

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New Rule: Stop putting psychedelic screensavers on computers. I sit down to check my e-mail, and the...

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Bill MaherThe New New Rules: A Funny Look At How Everybody But Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass

New Rule: Stop pretending your drugs are morally superior to my drugs because you get yours at a sto...

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Bill MaherThe New New Rules: A Funny Look At How Everybody But Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass

New Rule: If we want to find a place to cut government waste, we must start with the DEA rubber duck...

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Bill MaherThe New New Rules: A Funny Look At How Everybody But Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass

Faced with our addiction to oil, what does our leadership say? Get more o

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Bill MaherWhen You Ride Alone You Ride With Bin Laden: What the Government Should Be Telling Us to Help Fight the War on Terrorism

Dope never helped anybody sing better or play music better or do anything better. All dope can do fo...

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One of the characteristics of some drugs (such as cocaine) is that they make a person feel strong an...

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Thousands are killed and injured every year by teenagers driving too fast or under the influence of ...

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Some [young people] are taking pills called “heaven or hell” drugs, because you’re liable to experie...

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The Greek word used in the New Testament to designate a sorcerer or a person who practiced occult ma...

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Researchers have found that peer pressure exerted within a clique has caused every one of its member...

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Escapism seems to be the order of the day . . .Escape with drugs or alcohol, and the bitterness of l...

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This self-confident generation has produced more alcoholics, more drug addicts, more criminals, more...

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Some of the most heart-breaking letters I receive are from people who tell how alcohol or drugs have...

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When the headlines get black and foreboding, the sale of alcohol and barbiturates rises in the count...

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One of the characteristics of some drugs (such as cocaine) is that they make a person feel strong an...

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Thousands are killed and injured every year by teenagers driving too fast or under the influence of ...

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Some [young people] are taking pills called “heaven or hell” drugs, because you’re liable to experie...

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The Greek word used in the New Testament to designate a sorcerer or a person who practiced occult ma...

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Researchers have found that peer pressure exerted within a clique has caused every one of its member...

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Escapism seems to be the order of the day . . .Escape with drugs or alcohol, and the bitterness of l...

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This self-confident generation has produced more alcoholics, more drug addicts, more criminals, more...

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Some of the most heart-breaking letters I receive are from people who tell how alcohol or drugs have...

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When the headlines get black and foreboding, the sale of alcohol and barbiturates rises in the count...

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One of the characteristics of some drugs (such as cocaine) is that they make a person feel strong an...

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