Woe to you, my Princess, when I come. I will kiss you quite red and feed you till you are plump. And if you are froward, you shall see who is the stronger, a gentle little girl who doesn't eat enough, or a big wild man who has cocaine in his body.
Letter from Sigmund Freud to his fiancee
The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands." - See more at: http://quotationsbook.com/quotes/tag/ecology/#sthash.Zgz3KQEA.dpuf
The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands." - See more at: http://quotationsbook.com/quotes/tag/ecology/#sthash.Zgz3KQEA.dpuf
I've often thought that there isn't any "I" at all; that we are simply the means of expression of something else; that when we think we are ourselves, we are simply the victims of a delusion.
Aleister Crowley, Diary of a Drug Fiend
It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts.
Shirley Chisholm
The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.
Havelock Ellis
Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
Carl Sagan, The Varieties of Scientific Experience
The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands." - See more at: http://quotationsbook.com/quotes/tag/ecology/#sthash.Zgz3KQEA.dpuf
The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands." - See more at: http://quotationsbook.com/quotes/tag/ecology/#sthash.Zgz3KQEA.dpuf
2 comments:
"As the heroin supply became more difficult to intercept, DEA officials focused on heavy users of cocaine and hashish, who for a number of reasons more easily identified and arrested. Cocaine and hashish, however, had not been connected in the public mind with causing crime or even being highly addictive, and public interest in the activities of the new agency waned - at least as it was measured in the media."
In 1975, President Gerald Ford’s Domestic Council Drug Abuse Task Force issued a White Paper addressing drug abuse in America. The White Paper stated: “Cocaine…usually does not result in serious social consequences such as crime, hospital emergency room admissions, or death.” Thus, the Task Force recommended de-emphasizing cocaine (and marijuana) investigations and giving higher priority to heroin cases.
From Agency of Fear, by Edward Jay Epstein, a great book about where Nixon, drugs, and deep state intersect.
"Later, President Jimmy Carter’s drug advisor, Dr. Peter Bourne, was quoted as saying: “Cocaine is probably the most benign of illicit drugs currently in widespread use. At least as strong a case could be made for legalizing as for legalizing marijuana.”"
http://www.celebratehiltonhead.com/article/1668/dea-part-ii-the-colombian-cocaine-cartels
Also: LeRoi Jones, c. 1962-ish:
Houdini
Poured, white powder
on the back of a book
took out my plastic funnel
and honked the powder
up.
Then sit down, to write
before consciousness
drained away. Feeling
the change, the bag-like quality
of ease.
This will be
the last sense I make
for hours.
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