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Drug Quotes by Terence McKenna
- Drugs induce paranoia and psychosis in people who have never taken any.
- I think the real test of psychedelics is what you do with them when you're not on them, what kind of culture you build, what…
- LSD burst over the dreary domain of the constipated bourgeoisie like the angelic herald of a new psychedelic millennium. We have never been the same…
- The war on drugs was never meant to be won. Instead, it will be prolonged as long as possible in order to allow various intelligence…
- The pro-psychedelic plant position is clearly an antidrugs position. Drug dependencies are the result of habitual, unexamined, and obsessive behavior; these are precisely the tendencies…
- The state in the matter of drugs should not, any more than in the matter of sex, act as the secret agent for the agenda…
- Drugs are about dulling perception, about addiction and about behavioral repetition...What *psychedelics* are about is pattern- dissolving experiences of an extraordinarily high or different awareness.…
- Television is by nature the dominator drug par excellence. Control of content, uniformity of content, repeatability of content make it inevitably a tool of coersion,…
- Ecstasy is a complex emotion containing elements of joy, fear, terror, triumph, surrender, and empathy. What has replaced our prehistoric understanding of this complex of…
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- I've stopped drinking, but only while I'm asleep. — George Best
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- By crying on my bed, drinking quite a lot and feeling tempted by drugs. Well, just not reading it to be perfectly… — Jo Brand
- 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
- I found that I was getting a warm reception for my message of freeing you from the income tax, releasing you from… — Harry Browne
- Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use any other drug with special horror. — William S. Burroughs
- I've seen firsthand the terrible consequences of drug abuse. My heart is with all who suffer from addiction and the terrible consequences… — Columba Bush