#drug

His life was a party which tragically came to an early end. ↗

— David J. Cooper

#drugs #male-prostitution #tragedy #life

And this is why the defense is going to try to paint my brother out to be a drug addict and he was very dependent on drugs, and it's not true. Because how could someone be dependent on drugs since 2008, he was dancing four hours a day and he had a five-year plan of starting a new life. ↗

— Jermaine Jackson

#because #brother #could #dancing #day

Funny thing about the monster. The worse he treats you, the more you love him. ↗

— Ellen Hopkins

#ya-fiction #funny

Disease is the biggest money maker in our economy. ↗

— John H. Tobe

#drugs #economy #healing #medicine #money

In the factory we make cosmetics; in the drugstore we sell hope. ↗

— Charles Revson

#drugstore #factory #hope #make #sell

I suppose at heart it was the haircut that did it; that exploded the ordinary order of things and showed me the possibilities that had been there all along, hidden among the patterns in the wallpaper. In a different age, we used to take acid for more or less the same reason. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#change #drugs #glbtq #haircut #identity

Penny Arcade said: At that time, the DRUG world and the ART world ran through each other. (1971 - 1974) ↗

— Legs McNeil

#art

Amy [Winehouse] changed pop music forever, I remember knowing there was hope, and feeling not alone because of her. She lived jazz, she lived the blues. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#amy-winehouse #blues #death #drugs #jazz

The genius of the current caste system, and what most distinguishes it from its predecessors, is that it appears voluntary. People choose to commit crimes, and that's why they are locked up or locked out, we are told. This feature makes the politics of responsibility particularly tempting, as it appears the system can be avoided with good behavior. But herein lies the trap. All people make mistakes. All of us are sinners. All of us are criminals. All of us violate the law at some point in our lives. In fact, if the worst thing you have ever done is speed ten miles over the speed limit on the freeway, you have put yourself and others at more risk of harm than someone smoking marijuana in the privacy of his or her living room. Yet there are people in the United States serving life sentences for first-time drug offenses, something virtually unheard of anywhere else in the world. ↗

— Michelle Alexander

#prison #racism #age

We could choose to be a nation that extends care, compassion, and concern to those who are locked up and locked out or headed for prison before they are old enough to vote. We could seek for them the same opportunities we seek for our own children; we could treat them like one of “us.” We could do that. Or we can choose to be a nation that shames and blames its most vulnerable, affixes badges of dishonor upon them at young ages, and then relegates them to a permanent second-class status for life. That is the path we have chosen, and it leads to a familiar place. ↗

— Michelle Alexander

#prison #racism #age