Tommy Rettig Quotes

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?'

Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid.

Some of these pro-drug messages come from popular culture.

I took drugs because we all took drugs.

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

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

There's so much talk about the drug generation and songs about drugs. That's stupid. They aren't songs about drugs; they're about life.

Teen drug use went up dramatically in the 1990s.

I don't think that my parents even imagined that I would be exposed to drugs. In those days, for some reason, it was not talked about, just like sex was not talked about.

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.

In some of our public schools drugs are easier to obtain than text books.

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.

I would never do crack... I would never do a drug named after a part of my own ass, okay?

Every generation finds the drug it needs.

Drugs are horrible; I say no to drugs. I've never done drugs in my life.

In my neighborhood - West 121st Street in New York, "white Harlem" - there were only two drugs: smack and marijuana. By the time I was 13, some friends and I were using marijuana fairly regularly. The Reefer Madness myth was still very strong then, but I'd been into jazz and those lyrics included so many casual references to pot that it was completely demystified for me.

I think we've come a long way since then. The big thing that changed was when ecstasy came along in Britain.

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.

We have not yet concluded that needle-exchange programs do not encourage drug use.

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

So at the end of the day, our number 1 goal, our top priority, is to motivate American youngsters to reject the abuse of illegal drugs, tobacco and alcohol. All three of them are illegal behaviors.

We know that if we can prevent kids from trying drugs in their teenage years, we dramatically reduce the likelihood that they will go on to have problems later in life.

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

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