Rick Larsen Quotes

There are lasting consequences for using drugs. I'll still be paying for my prior use.

I've never had a problem with drugs. I've had problems with the police.

Methamphetamine is a hideous drug. Meth makes a person become paranoid, violent, and aggressive - making them a serious threat to society and law enforcement. And maybe more importantly, meth users are a threat to their own children and families.

Drugs ruin peoples lives, break up families and have disastrous effects on our communities.

I have heard repeated stories of meth users leaving their children unattended for days as they cook, use and then sleep off the intense effects of methamphetamine.

Alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceutical drugs are legal, but they can hurt a lot of people.

Our communities face many challenges, from keeping our kids safe in public, to the war on terrorism. But few have such immediate consequences as we face from methamphetamine.

Drugs are destroying more people than poverty ever did.

Uncle Sam is the Worst Drug Fiend in the World Of all the nations of the world the United States consumes most habit-forming drugs per capita. Opium, the most pernicious drug known to humanity, is surrounded, in this country, with far fewer safeguards than any other nation.

Drugs have ruined Punjab.

Every other day there's something - I'm dealing drugs, I'm starving people. I have never done a drug in my life.

I'm very fond of drugs.

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.

There are many drugs that have many serious side effects and that are harmful to people. Marijuana is no different than that. And especially we should try to discourage young people from using marijuana.

I had always turned it down-to me, smoking pot was absolutely the worst thing in the world. I thought of it as an addiction, and all my friends who smoked it, I felt they really needed help.

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

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

Drugs are in every walk of life - doctors, lawyers, preachers, the guy who works for IBM, teenagers on the street, teenagers in school.

If the Southeast represents the new battlefield in the war on meth, then Tennessee clearly is at ground zero.

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

Marijuana. Boy, I thought that was just terrible. How could this great man do this to his life?

One day I woke up with an atrocious hangover, and it hurt so badly that I told myself, 'It's time to stop. I can't do it anymore. It's not good. It hurts too much.'

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

In recent years, the choice of drugs on these reservations and throughout my district has been methamphetamines. It has destroyed the rule of law among the reservation people. It is killing our tribal youth in this country.

In fact, street gangs are the primary distributor of illegal drugs in the United States.