813 Quotes About Drugs

Drugs are nothing compared to the ecstasy of erudition.

The fact that war is the word we use for almost everything—on terrorism, drugs, even poverty—has certainly helped to desensitize us to its invocation; if we wage wars on everything, how bad can they be?

I can't even produce a metaphor for the drug world anymore. I don't even like the phrase the drug world since the phrase implies a different world.

Laughing from the inside is a medicine, which cannot be comparable by the available market drugs.

The level of crime is increasing every day in this country. People being hijacked, raped and killed every second. Abuse , theft and corruption is the order of the day.There are no police stopping it or any politicians speaking about it, because they are in it and this crimes are committed by them.

Crackheads were different. They’d smoke in hallways, on playgrounds, on subway station suitcases. They got no respect. They were former neighbors, ‘aunts’ and ‘uncles’, but once they started smoking, they were simply crackheads, the lowest on the food chain in the jungle, worse than prostitutes and almost as bad as snitches.

Life became colourful and wild as Ada danced through night and day. She danced so fiercely that she forgot what day it was or even her own name.

Clockers" asks--almost in passing, and there's a lot more to it than this--a pretty interesting question: if you choose to work for the minimum wage when everyone around you is pocketing thousands from drug deals, then what does that do to you, to your head and to your heart? (Hornby's thoughts after reading "Clockers" by Richard Price)

It is impossible to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in the drug or the addictive behaviour.