813 Quotes About Drugs

MDMA, it was beginning to be apparent, could be all things to all people.

There's not a drug on earth can make life meaningful

Crack had a social logic to it, a specific kind of reasoning that drew from a vast well of common experience for its symbolic resonance. Crack stood for pain and power, chaos and order, the truth behind the lie. Crack was a sociolegal logic grounded in blood.

take your best orgasm, multiply the feeling by twenty, and you're still fuckin miles off the pace

It was more comforting to believe that a white powder was the cause of black anger, and that getting rid of the white powder would render black Americans docile and on their knees once again.

In our time, the symbol of state intrusion into the private life is the mandatory urine test.

Every addict takes junk to escape something, the Muslim explains. He explains that most black junkies really are trying to narcotize themselves against being a black man in the white man's America. But, actually, the Muslim says, the black man taking dope is only helping the white man to "prove" that the black man is nothing.

I wobbled to the restroom and stood in line for ten minutes. It sucked, because most women were there to powder their noses, and that was precisely the thing I was afraid Alex was going to do when no one was looking.

It was ridiculous really. I had just won a major race despite not being in top form, yet I was going to dope.