Ken Kesey Quotes

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

I smoked some pot as a kid, but I just never did drugs.

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

Yes, but personally I was never a big acid head.

I don't intend for this to take on a political tone. I'm just here for the drugs.

The most I've smoked in a day was over an ounce, in Germany.

I think hard drugs are disgusting. But I must say, I think marijuana is pretty lightweight.

You may have heard that back in the States there are some people who are smoking grass. I don't know how you feel, but it's sure easier than cutting the stuff.

I did smoke a joint once but I did not enjoy it.

A lot of people don't realize that not everybody gets high.

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.

Bill Clinton does not inhale marijuana, right? You bet. Like I chew on LSD but I don't swallow it.'

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?'

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

I have to confess that a strong contributing factor was that I had just taken what was probably the first acid ever made, given to me by a guy called Johnny Fellows, who had just returned from America.

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 think drug movies free the director to make intense films.

Marijuana is a much bigger part of the American addiction problem than most people - teens or adults - realize.

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.

For years the league has thought I've been on drugs. I would have burned out a long time ago if that was true.

If you're interested in how people behave, if you're interested in the way they talk about themselves, the way the conceive of themselves, it's very hard to ignore drugs nowadays, because that is so much part of the conversation.

I hate people who think it's clever to take drugs... like custom officers.

When I was in England I experimented with marijuana a time or two—and didn't like it—and didn't inhale and never tried it again

Marijuana doesn’t produce dependence and it doesn’t produce overdose deaths.