Drug Quotes
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An herbal medicine made from a plant native to Asia is about to be banned in the U.S. It's known as either kratom or kratom, and forms of it are sold in shops and on the internet. In the next few weeks, kratom is set to be classified as a Schedule I drug. That puts it in the same category with marijuana and heroin.
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I love to think. I once considered taking drugs as an attempt to better understand an altered state of mind; however, I decided not to. I didn't want to chance ruining the machine.
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Drugs induce paranoia and psychosis in people who have never taken any.
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The United States is using its war on drugs as an excuse to expand its control over Latin America.
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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.
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I can't think of a society on Earth where people don't take drugs that any of us would want anything to do with.
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At 14, I was playing in clubs until 3 A.M. My dad was the district attorney of New Orleans and my mother was a judge, so I saw hookers and drugs but I never wanted that life.
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The state in the matter of drugs should not, any more than in the matter of sex, act as the secret agent for the agenda of the church.
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Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself...
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Rooting for the Red Sox is like rooting for the drug companies.
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Character grows in the soil of experience with the fertilization of example, the moisture of ambition, and the sunshine of satisfaction. Character cannot be purchased, bargained for, inherited, rented or imported from afar. It must be home-grown. Purely intellectual development without commensurate internal character development makes as much sense as putting a high-powered sports car in the hands of a teenager who is high on drugs. Yet all too often in the academic world, that's exactly what we do by not focusing on the character development of young people.
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Drugs made me feel more normal.
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Safety is really a concern of mine, and what I've been telling people recently is that until there's animal and human data on a drug it should probably be looked at very carefully.
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Why take drugs specifically designed to send you insane?
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I just put drugs down to luck. I persevere quite honestly, and I've got a fair amount of discipline that keeps me out of deep water.
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I started out in psychedelic drugs, and people said it was a flight from reality. It still is a flight from reality, but I think reality is now a bit more scary than the drugs we used to fly from it, so long ago.
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An interesting thing about drugs is often, when a new drug is discovered, it takes a long time to figure out how do you do it.
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I'm not an advocate of drugs. I'm an advocate of psychedelics.
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I am diagnosed with not having enough insanely-addictive drugs coursing through my body.
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What foods are, essentially, are idea-neutral drugs.
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What we drug people have, that you don't, is repeatability.
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I used to refer to my drug use as putting the monster in the box. I wanted to be less, so I took more - simple as that. Anyway, I eventually decided that the reason Dr. Stone had told me I was hypomanic was that he wanted to put me on medication instead of actually treating me. So I did the only rational thing I could do in the face of such as insult - I stopped talking to Stone, flew back to New York, and married Paul Simon a week later.