Ruben Blades Quotes

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've never done drugs in my life.

I don't do drugs. I don't like drugs.

Yes, but personally I was never a big acid head.

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

Personally I have never found the practice of recreational drug use appealing. In fact, I have always found the lifestyle and the people who surround it to be abhorrent.

I don't smoke pot. I never liked it.

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

I really have a problem with any kind of drug, I always have.

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

Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use any other drug with special horror.

I smoked some pot as a kid, but I just never did drugs.

For me from a pretty young age up until about 21 years old hallucinogenics had a huge place in my life.

We cannot conceive of a society that is worth building ... on the basis of a drug culture.

Agitating the community and increasingly forcing itself upon our attention is the narcotic drug evil. I am convinced that part of the agitation on this subject is due to the sensationalism of certain types of newspapers and magazines. Lurid, sensational articles, intended to inflame the imagination of young people and to make the whole subject mysteriously and morbidly attractive, have led to the prevalence of a belief that the use of narcotic drugs is much more general than it really is.

Our nation needs to say clearly once again that using drugs will destroy your life.

I've never done drugs. That's because I saw this stuff literally every day when I was 3 or 4 years old.

I've never been into artists promoting drugs.

Drugs is like getting up and having a cup of tea in the morning.

I'm very fond of drugs.

If you've never tried drugs, don't. And if you have, pray.

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?'

I don't really drink very much, although I have abused alcohol in the past.

I still don't know anything about drugs, or who takes them, or what happens.