P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

I meant that people will take anything that gives them a lift, whether it's alcohol or cocaine or the consciousness-expanding drugs or opiates. In Iran, until recently, they sold opium in shops legally, and they had 3,000,000 addicts in a population of 15,000,000. I don't believe that all those people were escaping from "complexes" or anything of the sort. They were simply exposed to it.

I love drugs, but I hate hangovers, and the hatred of the hangover wins by a landslide every time.

Yes, there was nothing else to do to get you high. I mean, there was, but white kids didn't hear about it.

During the 60's, drug use was in fashion in the U.S.

There were a lot of drugs. We kinda just passed the time that way. For a couple of years we were all doin' anything we could get our hands on.

I think I did every drug known to mankind, smoked crack, boozed, dropped acid, you name it.

The consumption of drugs could be legalized, not penalized.

Now they're calling taking drugs an epidemic - that's cos white folks are doing it.

We get high on all types of drugs when, all you really need is Love

They say drugs are not the answer, but really, what is the question?

Drugs are a tragedy for addicts. But criminalizing their use converts that tragedy into a disaster for society, for users and non-users alike. Our experience with the prohibition of drugs is a replay of our experience with the prohibition of alcoholic beverages.

I can't think of a society on Earth where people don't take drugs that any of us would want anything to do with.

There is no reason to think today's levels of [drug] addiction are anywhere near the levels that would be reached under legalization.

We won't dispassionately investigate or rationally debate which drugs do what damage and whether or how much of that damage is the result of criminalization. We'd rather work ourselves into a screaming fit of puritanism and then go home and take a pill.

Pretty much any drug you can name, I've done it.

A lot of my friends were fooling around with drugs then.

I took drugs because we all took drugs.

And in fact, one of the central reasons why I never got involved with any drugs or anything is that I remember talking to people in maybe 1975 who saw Hendrix but couldn't remember it. I was like, 'How could that be?'

But the drugs are kind of like taboo, at least among me and my friends and the people I've worked with.

I didn't do drugs, I never did do drugs. Never. I don't have any story of drugs, you know, to speak of. Never did drugs, never was interested in drugs and then I wasn't interested in the people around the drugs.

I was a straight arrow, a control freak. I didn't do drugs or drink, and this was the '70s. I didn't like the loss of control. Which isn't exactly right, because I didn't know what happened when you did drugs.

I think drug movies free the director to make intense films.

I don't know if people really want to know how I feel about drugs. I'm not such a stickler. I believe you can choose to live your life any way you want.

I don't intend for this to take on a political tone. I'm just here for the drugs.

The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too reckless, and too irresponsible to decide whether and under what conditions to consume drugs. The war on drugs is morally bankrupt.