Michael Manley Quotes

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 intend for this to take on a political tone. I'm just here for the drugs.

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.

For all our policing, we understand that law enforcement is not the solution to the problem of drugs in our society.

Wherever there's money, there's drugs, so to say drugs don't exist in the NBA would be stupid.

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

Having smoked a marijuana joint in 1968 is no big deal.

The Batoka of these parts are very degraded in their appearance, and are not likely to improve, either physically or mentally, while so much addicted to smoking the mutokwane ('Cannabis sativa'). They like its narcotic effects

There are 8,000 addicts in New York City. With legitimate supplies of drugs cut off, this small army would be likely to break out violently when the narcotic hunger becomes stronger. If the victims are permitted to roam about without the drugs they become dangerous.

We are never going to lick this problem of the drug traffic until we get the addicts off the streets of this country. They have got to be taken off the streets

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.

All of you who are into drugs, you sons-of-bitches, I will really kill you.

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

Drug culture is extremely prevalent and probably most people know somebody whose life has been affected by drugs, if it's not their own or in their own family, they have friends. It's a never-ending process.

I'm very fond of drugs.

I sit on the Drug Policy Subcommittee of the United States Congress. I'm on the speaker's task force. This is something people would rather turn away from and not face, but in fact it is possibly the greatest threat we face.

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.

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

I've used drugs that I do consider to be dangerous, drugs that are potentially detrimental to kids and society at large.

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

All drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with your self-esteem. They’re no good at all. But I’m not going to go around preaching against them.

The Drug War has arguably been the single most devastating, dysfunctional social policy since slavery.

Until we do something about demand, Latin America will never be able to solve the drug problem on its own.

Drugs are wrong. They burn out your brain and they sear your soul.