Substance Use Quotes

We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers... and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can.

I don’t shake at the site of alcohol anymore. I don’t feel the need for it. If anything I’ll get stoned. I always told myself if it got to the point that it was affecting my songwriting and music that I’d stop. And it did get to the point.

The alcoholic suffers from a disease.

Cocaine was different. It kept saying, "You haven't had enough." I became an abuser almost instantly.

Obviously I've taken drugs.

I don’t know what life is like without cannabis, I hear there is such a thing.

The trick is to use the drugs once to get there, and maybe spend the next ten years trying to get back there without the drug.

It is a lot of work being an addict. There's nothing harder than being an addict.

Many times drugs and alcohol - there's a technical term that they're called, emotional suppressants - are the only things that can help a person survive and get through and be able to deal with their pain.

That's why cocaine is illegal - it makes pussy too easy to get.

Tupac Shakur always wanted me to smoke weed with him, and I never did it, and I wish I did...That's my biggest regret.

I've written songs sober and I've written songs high.

I did a little bit of cocaine in the Eighties, courtesy of John Belushi, but fortunately I didn’t like it. But I smoked marijuana for 50 years and I don’t know where I’d be without it. It opened my mind and now it eases my arthritis. After decades of research I’ve concluded that marijuana should be legal and alcohol illegal.

... franking junkies ...

LSD is different. LSD is like psychoanalytical Drano. It's not a personality.

What's in that pipe that he's smoking?

The other day they asked me about mandatory drug testing. I said I believed in drug testing a long time ago. All through the sixties I tested everything.

Of course I miss [drugs]. And anyone who tells you they don't is lying.

A blunt a day will take the pain away.

Andrew Wood's death changed things for a few weeks. I probably got even heavier into drugs after that.

I didn't start smoking weed till my junior year. I had a boyfriend who smoked a lot, and I was like, "Oh, I guess I'm moving on to this phase of life." I didn't fight it at all.

Regarding drugs: just the existence of drugs seems troubling to me.

I didn't spend money on nothin'. Besides my daughter, bucket hats, and weed.

In the '70s, everybody was doing drugs, so long as you showed up and did your work, they'd use you until you died.