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Confucianism strongly condemned the use of drugs like opium. -- Robert Trout
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. -- Rudyard Kipling
Your denial is beneath you, and thanks to the use of hallucinogenic drugs, I see through you. -- Bill Hicks
According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the first use of alcohol typically begins at age 12. -- Xavier Becerra
To put someone in jail for using drugs in the privacy of his hotel room is just barbaric. -- Danny Sugerman
Drugs will have a huge effect on my work for the rest of my life, whether I'm using or not. -- Layne Staley
Roughly speaking, this hypothesis asks whether drug use causes some of the diseases officially associated with AIDS, such as immunodeficiency and Kaposi's sarcoma. -- Serge Lang
I believe that the war on drugs is a tragically misplaced use of resources - an immoral venture that produces far more suffering than it alleviates. -- David Harsanyi
Illegal drug use runs contrary to the image of health depicted by cycling. Distributors of these drugs must be prosecuted more harshly as they are ciminals. -- Bernard Hinault
Drugs shouldn't be used for recreation although they can be, but ultimately the point of psychedelics is to put you in touch with the powers of the universe. -- Ray Manzarek
The public properly relies upon FDA classification of drugs as nonprescription as a reflection of the agency's judgment regarding the safety and proper use of a drug without a doctor's prescription. -- Loretta Lynch
This was a result of a number of factors, but we do know that the messages kids get about the harms of drugs has a significant impact on their decision on whether or not to use. -- John Walters
The stated mission at the time was simply to use the influence of the entertainment industry to do an accurate portrayal of drug and alcohol abuse. We all admit that we're not trying to censor anybody. -- Gerald McRaney
Drones can be a highly effective way of dealing with high-priority targets, but they should not become the drug of choice for an administration that is afraid to use successful, legal and safe tactics of the past. -- Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr.
I rise in support of the separation of powers as established by our Founding Fathers in the Constitution. The Constitution clearly delegates the power to deal with criminal matters, like the use of drugs, to the States. -- Dana Rohrabacher
While we must ensure that these dangerous new drugs and precursors do not get in the hands of children or others who would use them improperly, we must also be aware that these same drugs have legitimate uses. -- Bobby Scott
The purpose of random testing is not to catch, punish, or expose students who use drugs, but to save their lives and discover abuse problems early so that students can grow up and learn in a drug-free environment. -- John Walters
There is actually quite a lot of crossover between the quacks and drug companies. They use the same tricks and tactics to bamboozle people into buying their pills, but drug firms can afford to use slightly more sophisticated versions. -- Ben Goldacre
In every country except - industrial country except the United States, the government uses its massive purchasing power to negotiate drug prices. That's one of the reasons prices are so much higher in the United States than in other countries. -- Noam Chomsky
We're now able to show that the words of comfort trigger biological reactions which are the very things that you want, and you can use drugs to get there, or you can use words of comfort to get there, which would make your drugs so much more effective. -- Abraham Verghese
Use new drugs quickly, while they still work. -- Armand Trousseau
I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough. -- M. C. Escher
I don't use recreational drugs, except for cocaine, hallucinogens, and nitrates. -- Robert Mapplethorpe
I've never been drunk in my life. I don't use recreational drugs. -- Paula Abdul
Medical men do not know the drugs they use, nor their prices. -- Francis Bacon
I, however, cannot force myself to use "meat drugs" to cheat on my loneliness. -- Franz Kafka
There are lasting consequences for using drugs. I'll still be paying for my prior use. -- Layne Staley
I love money, I love women, I like to work hard and I don't use drugs. -- Gene Simmons
The government doesn't want you to use YOUR drugs, they want you to use THEIR drugs. -- Chris Rock
There are no bad drugs. There's simply stupid people who don't know how to use them. -- Timothy Leary
I wanna die young and sell my soul, use up all your drugs and make me come. -- Marilyn Manson
The perception is that baseball's players' union is protecting players to use steroids and other illegal performance-enhancing drugs. -- Jim Bunning
My guess is many top athletes, distance runners included, use performance-enhancing drugs, enough so that the problem must be tackled. -- Bill Rodgers
On an everyday level, I use alcohol and drugs in general mostly to be in a happier mood, with the people around me. -- Gaspar Noe
I can't stand when people use drugs as an escape. It's like, everybody suffers. Deal with your issues, you'll feel so much better. -- Alyson Hannigan
I think I don't want to use drugs or medicine, so nothing. The only way is to go on stage and to hope. -- Andrea Bocelli
The problem with drugs is that most of the people that use the drugs, use it as a license to be an asshole. -- Frank Zappa
In the '70s, everybody was doing drugs, so long as you showed up and did your work, they'd use you until you died. -- Brion James
America's drug war is so stupid that if you pay close attention to just how stupid it is -- it'll drive you to use drugs. -- Jim Hightower
I knew Jimi (Hendrix) and I think that the best thing you could say about Jimi was: there was a person who shouldn't use drugs. -- Frank Zappa
The trick is to use the drugs once to get there, and maybe spend the next ten years trying to get back there without the drug. -- Maynard James Keenan
I'm sure drugs and alcohol perhaps would inspire new thoughts, but it's certainly not something that I use as a tool or a mechanism to create. -- Heath Ledger
I don't smoke, I don't drink, I don't use drugs. That may be boring for some people, but that's just me. That's how I live my life. -- CM Punk
I find it depressing that people think you have to be on drugs to watch [my stuff], that's a cop out, use your brain, use your imagination. -- Noel Fielding
I guess the drinking and the drugs are interesting to me because the way we use them and our society uses them, we kind of manufacture highs and lows. -- Craig Finn
My critique of how we deal with drugs in society is just that - that we use these anecdotes to apply to everyone and the anecdotes are not representative. -- Carl Hart
I might be in the basement. I'll go upstairs and check. We adore chaos because we love to produce order. I don't use drugs; my dreams are frightening enough. -- M. C. Escher
Addiction is a brain disease. This is not a moral failing. This is not about bad people who are choosing to continue to use drugs because they lack willpower. -- Michael Botticelli
There is no place in "our Army" for those who sexually harass or intimidate others, or whose use of alcohol or drugs degrades themselves and the soldiers around them. -- Glen E. Morrell
When people who believe themselves to be addicts or alcoholics come under great stress or trauma, they mentally give themselves permission to drink or use drugs as a remedy. -- Chris Prentiss
The use of psychoactive drugs - including both antidepressants and antipsychotics - has exploded...[yet] 'the tally of those who are disabled...increased nearly two and a half times. -- Marcia Angell
There is not a single person alive who could keep a straight face and say "Oh yeah it's healthy, the reason I use drugs and alcohol and booze is because it's healthy!" -- Gene Simmons
I am not proposing to replace war with peace. I propose to replace war with a smarter fight. A fight using other instruments, more intelligent instruments to convince people not to use drugs. -- Fernando Henrique Cardoso
Everybody deals with stress differently. Some people drink, some people use drugs, some people watch TV. I have always found that extreme athletics chills me out and leaves me in a very centered place. -- Frederick Lenz
Everybody deals with stress differently. Some people drink, some people use drugs, some people watch TV. I have always found that extreme athletics chills me out and leaves me in a very centered place. -- Frederick Lenz

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