In 1970, there were approximately 330,000 prisoners in the US. Today there are 2.3 million behind bars - more than any country… — Sam Branson Copy Share Image
Science is, rightly, searching for drugs to arrest ageing or to slow the advance of dementia. But the evidence suggests that many… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
Yes, you have cancer. Yes, your kids are on drugs. Yes, there is an elephant outside your tent. Now the question becomes,… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
The name of medicine is thought to have been given from 'moderation', modus, that is, from a due proportion, which advises that… — Isidore of Seville Copy Share Image
Nothing is more dangerous than to stop working. It is a habit that can soon be lost, one that is easily neglected… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I don’t know how you look at the inside of your head — what metaphor you choose — but for those of… — James St. James Copy Share Image
So I have probably 1,200 little bits of paper with notes, which when the Ambien really starts to kick in, don't really… — Chris Martin Copy Share Image
Understanding capitalism is in some ways simple. At its best, capitalism rewards creators, makers and providers: the people and firms that create… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
“Somewhere along the way companies grew to have no respect for the people whose lives their products perhaps intended to improve, refusing… — Nick Reding Copy Share Image
People use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or dull. They hate their work and find no rest… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Let's remember the children who come from broken homes, surrounded by crime, drugs, temptation, their peers having babies out of wedlock, but… — Armstrong Williams Copy Share Image
Don't let these tattoos fool you. I'm straight edge. I'm a man of great discipline; I don't drink, I don't smoke, I… — CM Punk Copy Share Image
Back in the 1980s, when the internet was only available to a small number of pioneers, I was often confronted by people… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
Every American has got to recognize, we are the only major country on Earth not to guarantee health care to all people.… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
I have had the occasion of coming into money and spending some recklessly, like on a purse. At this point, shopping and… — Michelle Tea Copy Share Image
I think that the war on drugs is domestic Vietnam. And didn't we learn from Vietnam that, at a certain point in… — Kurt Schmoke Copy Share Image
The fact that people of all colors have been ensnared by the drug war helps to preserve the system as a whole… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Remember, FDA employees are serious about fear. We pay these people to panic about an iota of rodent hair in our chili,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I was on drugs when I wrote some of my songs. It was a rough time for me, but I'm lucky enough… — Billie Joe Armstrong Copy Share Image
Too much of my family has messed with drugs. Addiction might be in my genes, so I ain't never tryin' it. It's… — Edgerrin James Copy Share Image
Research is subordinated (not to a long-term social benefit) but to an immediate commercial profit. Currently, disease (not health) is one of… — Pierre Bosquet Copy Share Image
Ann Sjoerdsma has successfully blended the fascinating story of her illustrious father's scientific achievements [in wide-ranging] drug research, with an enjoyable historic… — Arvid Carlsson Copy Share Image
These pharmaceutical company executives are dope dealers and they should be treated worse, and more roughly than dope dealers. When you're talking… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I simply don't like the culture of drugs. I never liked the hippies for it. I think it was a mistake to… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
My history of moving away from drugs is not the kind you hear from most people. Certainly not from celebrities, especially those… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
The minute you use the drugs, and you do something that interferes with the life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness of… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
The cultural integration of psychedelics won't happen overnight, and the question of young people is perhaps the most difficult involved. The first… — Rick Doblin Copy Share Image
One of the things that has happened is that our drug laws have been institutionalized now. If you want to say that… — Carl Hart Copy Share Image
I quickly decided my zombies weren't really zombies. It was instead something you called people who were on this club drug, who… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
I don't know many rules to live by,' he'd said. 'But here's one. It's simple. Don't put anything unnecessary into yourself. No… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
An herbal medicine made from a plant native to Asia is about to be banned in the U.S. It's known as either… — Audie Cornish Copy Share Image
Military intervention to maintain the global status quo will become a constant feature of international relations, whether this is justified in terms… — Walden Bello Copy Share Image
To quote Homer Simpson, alcohol is the cause and solution to all of life's problems. I don't think there's anything wrong with… — Moby Copy Share Image
The man Hillary [Clinton] introduced at the meeting goes so far as to say that no amount of trauma to children -… — Peter Breggin Copy Share Image
I notice a lot of people think they can solve their problems with antidepressants. That, I noticed, being like a bigger issue,… — Gerard Way Copy Share Image
The important thing is that while heroin and cocaine and tobacco and every drug and junk food cause dopamine release, there are… — Neal Barnard Copy Share Image
No wonder psychedelics are threatening to an authoritarian religious hierarchy. You don’t need faith to benefit from a psychedelic experience, let alone… — Dennis McKenna Copy Share Image
I also had my own addiction to cocaine and heroin in my 20s. I knew that it was driven not by the… — Maia Szalavitz Copy Share Image
He was prepared to die for it, as one of Baudelaire's dandies might have been prepared to kill himself in order to… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image