Hunter S. Thompson Quotes

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

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

Cocaine isn't habit forming. I should know - I've been using it for years.

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

I was once a shameless, full-time dope fiend.

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

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.

It's one of the reasons I don't do drugs. One sniff and I'd go all the way.

This was a result of a number of factors, but we do know that the messages kids get about the harms of drugs has a significant impact on their decision on whether or not to use.

I certainly wouldn't advocate anyone using drugs on a regular or habitual basis.

Whether you sniff it smoke it eat it or shove it up your ass the result is the same: addiction.

The seven dwarfs were each on different little trips. Happy was into grass and grass alone. Happy, that's all he did. Sleepy was into reds. Grumpy, too much speed. Sneezy was a full blown coke freak. Doc was a connection. Dopey was into everything. Any old orifice will do for Dopey. He's always got his arm out and his leg up. And then, the one we always forget, because he was Bashful. Bashful didn't use drugs. He was paranoid on his own. Didn't need any help on that ladder.

Your kiss is bitter with cocaine.

The problem with drugs is that most of the people that use the drugs, use it as a license to be an asshole.

We all live with more mortality because we're all on drugs.

…He was always high on drugs. I was not a drug man, but in case I wanted to hide from myself for a few days, I knew I could get anything I wanted from him.

I had a lot of it in my day, but I don't like it. It's a dumb drug. Your whole concentration goes on getting the next fix. I find caffeine easier to deal with.

There's a big difference between somebody who does acid on weekends and somebody who takes downers every day.

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

I never had one beer. If I bought a six-pack of beer, I kept drinking till all six beers were gone. You have to have that kind of understanding about yourself. I haven't had a drink now in 12 years.

I took drugs because we all took 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.

There should be marches in every neighborhood every day telling the people about the negativity of drugs and how the drugs help us to behave negatively.

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 am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.