“But maybe there's a chance. Ooo-ooo! I know what I need to do! I know what I really need. Gotta stop doing things that are bad for me... I'm gonna do drugs right now, I wanna get fucked up, I don't care how, I wanna feel high right now. Cause there's an energy inside my brain makes me do things that…”— Colleen Green, open.spotify.com
“When I was on drugs so bad, I talked different. When I was smoking weed, a damn near pound of weed every day, I was congested. When I was drinking lean like crazy every day, I was out my mind. I was always sophisticated, but it ain’t even sophisticated now — it’s just a sober, a more conscious Gucci…”— Gucci Mane, billboard.com
“It was a maximum security prison and it was a lot of violence. People were dying every week. [But] I think it helped me to get to the point I’m at now, to drive me out from the drugs. It gave me time to reflect, it made a lot of relationships that were toxic in my life just fall away.”— Gucci Mane, billboard.com
“They tried closing their eyes and going to sleep, but they couldn't tell the difference between sleep and being awake. They seemed to be caught in some sort of trap, and they tossed and moaned and finally Marion bolted up in bed, gasping for breath and Harry put the light on, You alright?”— Hubert Selby Jr., amazon.com
“I like to O.D. I like to almost O.D. on drugs. Yeah. I like to go to the highest. Man, I loved it. I loved it. Wow. And I kept smoking, kept smoking. But I never got to get back to that high, that first high. That first high, yeah. I never got it.”— Anonymous, amazon.com
“I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.”— Hunter S. Thompson, twitter.com
“AmerisourceBergen, the nation’s third largest drug distributor, shipped 60.9 million hydrocodone pills and 26.6 million oxycodone tablets to West Virginia. That’s 33 hydrocodone pills and 15.5 oxycodone pills for every man, woman and child in West Virginia.”— Eric Eyre, wvgazettemail.com
“You don’t wake up one morning and decide to be a drug addict. It takes at least three months’ shooting twice a day to get any habit at all. And you don’t really know what junk sickness is until you have had several habits. It took me almost six months to get my first habit, and then the withdrawal s…”— William S. Burroughs, amazon.com
“You don’t wake up one morning and decide to be a drug addict. It takes at least three months’ shooting twice a day to get any habit at all. And you don’t really know what junk sickness is until you have had several habits. It took me almost six months to get my first habit, and then the withdrawal s…”— William S. Burroughs, amazon.com
“You don’t wake up one morning and decide to be a drug addict. It takes at least three months’ shooting twice a day to get any habit at all. And you don’t really know what junk sickness is until you have had several habits. It took me almost six months to get my first habit, and then the withdrawal s…”— William S. Burroughs, amazon.com
“You don’t wake up one morning and decide to be a drug addict. It takes at least three months’ shooting twice a day to get any habit at all. And you don’t really know what junk sickness is until you have had several habits. It took me almost six months to get my first habit, and then the withdrawal s…”— William S. Burroughs, amazon.com
“Debt and drugs: new balance of terror. Will the debt be balanced out, the drugs cleaned up? No way. Vicious circle of soft wars, viral forms of finance and morphine.”— Jean Baudrillard, amazon.com
“Substance abuse and drug addiction hurt our kids, friends, neighbors, and loved ones. We've got to solve this.”— Hillary Clinton, twitter.com
“Hailed by the whole, one can become healed through ecodelic practice precisely because the subject turns back on who they thought they were, becoming aware of the existence of a whole, a system in which everything 'really is' connected—the noösphere. Such a vision can be discouraging and even fright…”— Richard M. Doyle, amazon.com
“There is a myth about such highs: the user has an illusion of great insight, but it does not survive scrutiny in the morning. I am convinced that this is an error, and that the devastating insights achieved when high are real insights; the main problem is putting these insights in a form acceptable…”— Carl Sagan, marijuana-uses.com
“If we get really, really good at fine-tuning our shamanic alchemy and we can play the brain exactly as we want; cool, but... there is something that the mushrooms tell you that a synthetic, perfectly modulated chemical won't. The mushrooms are going tell you some stuff you may not want to really hea…”— Douglas Rushkoff, new.livestream.com