Wine Quotes by Ayelet Waldman

8 Wine quotes by Ayelet Waldman

Waldman’s writing often blends curiosity with clarity, and her brief wine reflections follow suit. In eight succinct observations she offers a reflective, modern take on the ritual of sipping.

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I smoked pot when I was a teenager because other kids were doing it, but I didn't enjoy it that much.

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When you consider America, there are hundreds of millions of people who have smoked marijuana illegally.

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I've never really been interested in recreational drug use.

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I really think we were charting a course to having a more sane response to mass incarceration, to drug use, and to…

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States began to realize how much money they were spending on incarceration and how much money they were spending fighting this ludicrous…

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I really hate alcohol. I hate it because it's linked so closely to sexual assault in our culture.

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I've only ever been interested in drugs as therapeutic tools.

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The legalization of drugs, a proliferation of a public health approach to drug use and drug addition, a compassionate mental health system.…

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