Drug Consequences Quotes

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

LSD is a psychedelic drug which occasionally causes psychotic behavior in people who have NOT taken it.

If you think dope is for kicks and for thrills, you're out of your mind. There are more kicks to be had in a good case of paralytic polio or by living in an iron lung.

In short: just say NO TO DRUGS, and maybe you won't end up like the Hurd people.

I've been in the music business for 15 years. I've seen it all, man. I've just always been scared of coke. When I was on the road and saw some people do it, I was afraid I would really like it. I was afraid of the consequences.

In my 20s I was so ignorant about drugs, and so naive. I mean, my band was smoking marijuana for years; I didn't even know what a joint was. And I'd never seen a line of cocaine in my life. And I don't know whether it was bravado or - OK, I'll join in. But my stupidity, I had a line of coke, and that started the whole process.

Stay away from drugs. They're not worth it. I've tried, but there's none of them that's worth it.

I feel badly for the people who suffer from the side effects and consequences of hazardous pharmaceuticals. It's antithetical to the Hippocratic oath.

Drugs will turn you into your parents.

There's only two types of people who are against drugs: the people who have never done drugs and the people who really sucked at doing drugs.

How many murders, suicides, robberies, criminal assaults, holdups, burglaries and deeds of maniacal insanity it causes each year, especially among the young, can only be conjectured... No one knows, when he places a marijuana cigarette to his lips, whether he will become a joyous reveller in a musical heaven, a mad insensate, a calm philosopher, or a murderer...

I said to a guy, "Tell me, what is it about cocaine that makes it so wonderful," and he said, "Because it intensifies your personality." I said, "Yes, but what if you're an asshole?"

There's no happy ending to cocaine. You either die, you go to jail, or else you run out.

Does that mean we should give up? Probably. But there are two issues worth considering. The first is - is it really true that drugs destroy the integrity of the game?

Drug use makes you snappy, and you get very bad-tempered and have terrible hangovers.

I stopped taking drugs when I was 19, and who wants to drive a cab around New York with drugs in their car?

Angel dust won't go away. Somefolks who were smoking it were going away.

I didn't go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road.

Nobody saves America by sniffing cocaine. Jiggling your knees blankeyed in the rain, when it snows in your nose you catch cold in your brain.

If the public realized the dangers that we are facing [from drugs], they would be willing to put up with some inconvenience and accept the fact that we will enforce the laws and some persons may be innocently damaged .... I don't want anyone [innocent] hurt, but it may be part of the price we will have to pay.

While the collateral consequences of drugs such as cocaine are indisputably severe, they are not unlike those which flow from the misuse of other, legal, substances

I feel badly for the people who suffer from the side effects and consequences of hazardous pharmaceuticals. It's antithetical to the Hippocratic Oath. I want to see people use safe, practical medicines.

Drugs seem to turn people into paranoid bores. Why would anyone want to go there?

Then there was LSD, which was supposed to make you think you could fly. I remember it made you think you couldn't stand up, and mostly it was right.