25 Quotes by George Jung

The war on drugs was an ideology the government came up with, and there never really was a war on drugs. I mean, to stop the importation of drugs into the United States of America is an impossibility.

I was snorting a lot of cocaine and I had lost myself to a great degree. A lot of people, everybody was starting to realize what the coke was all about and they were all starting to get lost.

I suddenly began to realize that to become an entrepreneur in the marijuana business would make me fairly well off. And I also liked the lifestyle, my own working hours.

After a while, the cocaine – I didn’t have any friends. I was just alone and I didn’t even like myself.

I was the kid who would take the car out at night when he was 16 and see if he can redline it. And then there’s the kid who will be careful of it because it’s his dad’s car, or whatever, and drive it safely home and go to bed. And that’s how my whole life was.

People don’t grow up to become thrill junkies – they’re born like that.

I thought heroin was evil and morally, myself, I thought that pot was okay. That it wasn’t a bad thing and so therefore thought I wasn’t doing a bad thing. I knew I was breaking the law but I thought that the law was wrong also. So I morally justified what I was doing.

I’ve had so many great experiences in my life, of living total free will, that I wouldn’t change it for all the gold in the earth.

Basically I was no different than a rock star or a movie star. I was a coke star.