[Smoking] was a comfort, an occupation, a drug, a casual habit, a distraction, a way to not eat, a way to not pay attention, a way to not feel.
The Caterpillar cannot understand the butterfly
The money paid at consumption is paid by everybody, including illegals, prostitutes, pimps, drug dealers.
Families fighting childhood cancer should not have to worry about where they're going to get the next dose of the drug they need to save their child's life.
It's the new slavery. It came out of the drug laws and it really is something we're going to have to confront, but I don't see enough people up in arms about that. We need to be.
In modern pharmacology it's so clear that even if you have a fixed dose of a drug, the individuals respond very differently to one and the same dose.
America didn't have a drug problem before it passed drug laws. While drugs were consumed by large numbers of people — the number of women habituated to the opium found in laudanum was, no pun intended, staggering — they were, for the most part, easily able to live their lives, do their jobs, and raise their families pretty much the way we do today.
There is a nationwide shortage of drugs for Attention Deficit Disorder. The FDA says they're not sure how it happened. I guess somebody wasn't paying attention.
If you've got bad news, you want to kick them blues, cocaine.
We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.
I am glad that people are trying to have a rational conversation about drugs.
Not to employ prayer with my patients was the equivalent of deliberately withholding a potent drug or surgical procedure.
If technology is a drug – and it does feel like a drug – then what, precisely, are the side-effects?
I sit here in this chair, I pour myself some whiskey, and watch my troubles vanish into the air.
The Philippines is very important to me strategically and militarily. And I've had numerous conversations with the leader of the Philippines and - and he's got a big problem. He's got a massive drug problem. He's been very, very tough on that drug problem, but he has a massive drug problem.
If you're an alcoholic or a drug addict or something, we flirt with death. We pull ourselves to the brink of destruction and if we're lucky we pull ourselves back. We all have that in us.
I definitely believe in legalizing drugs. It does take the mystery away. It takes the money away, so suddenly there are no drug wars. If you're a junkie, you can get help easier.
But, also, before I even go on the Medicare prescription drug debate, I always tell the folks in rural Illinois, and I represent 30 counties south of Springfield down to Indiana and Kentucky, that in this bill is the best rural package for hospitals ever passed.
The United States and Mexico are trapped - economically, culturally, politically and because of drug crime - in the same continent.
By the time kids are 15, they're drunks and they're drug addicts and they're getting chicks pregnant. The parents wonder, "What did I do wrong?" What you did wrong was, you were never there. You had the kid as a status symbol, that's what went wrong. And you're paying the price for it.