1. Drugs and alcohol are the cruel engine of many an artists’ creativity.-Nathan Hartzenberg
2. I love drugs, but I hate hangovers, and the hatred of the hangover wins by a landslide every time.-Margaret Cho
3. The drug culture has shaped at least one major change since the Sixties; It became the basis for overloading our prisons.-Jimmy Carter
4. I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.-Fran Lebowitz
5. Everything is a drug. Family, art, causes, new shoes… We’re all just tweaking our chem to avoid the void.-Joss Whedon
6. Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with your self esteem.-Kurt Cobain
7. I don’t do drugs. I am drugs.-Salvador Dali
8. Don’t waste good drugs on killing yourself. Share them with friends and have a party. Or send them to me.-Chuck Palahniuk
9. Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is.-Norman Cousins
10. I was more addicted to self destruction then to the drugs themselves … something very romantic about it-Gerard Way
11. Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error of judgment.-Philip K. Dick
12. Reality is a crutch for people who can’t cope with drugs.-Lily Tomlin
13. I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.-Hunter S. Thompson
14. I learned why they’re called wonder drugs — you wonder what they’ll do to you.-Harlan Miller
15. You can turn back on a person, but you can never turn your back on a drug, especially when it’s waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye.-Hunter S. Thompson
16. It’s not a war on drugs, it’s a war on personal freedom.-Bill Hicks
17. There is only one reason why men become addicted to drugs—they are weak men. Only strong men are cured, and they cure themselves.-Martin H. Fischer
21. The person who takes medicine must recover twice, once from the disease and once from the medicine.-William Osler, M.D.
22. Drugs are a bet with the mind.-Jim Morrison
23. Drugs are reality’s legal loopholes.-Jeremy P. Johnson
24. Marijuana is self-punishing. It makes you acutely sensitive, and in this world, what worse punishment could there be?-P. J. O’Rourke
25. Addiction begins with the hope that something ‘out there’ can instantly fill up the emptiness inside.-Jean Kilbourne
26. I don’t need drugs to make my life tragic.-Eddie Vedder
27. The experiences which drugs induce are as far removed from Reality as is a mirage, from water. No matter how much you pursue the mirage, you will never quench your thirst, and the search for Truth through drugs must end in disillusionment.-Meher Baba
28. Experimenting with drugs is like target practice where your head is the bull.-Michael Josephson
29. You should just say no to drugs. That will drive the prices down.-Geechy Guy
29. Don’t do drugs because if you do drugs you’ll go to prison, and drugs are really expensive in prison.-John Hardwick
30. Drugs have taught an entire generation of American kids the metric system.-P.J. O’Rourke
31. I don’t use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.-M C Escher