David Hockney (1937) British artist
Interview with Jasper Gerard, "Taking the fight to the dreary people," The Sunday Times (London) (2 October 2005)
2000s
“"Designer drugs" are a word bag, just like "drugs", by the way. But after the word "drugs" is the word: "illegal". And after the "designer drugs" there is something much worse: lack of knowledge.”
Vetulani, Jerzy (18 October 2010): Nawet czarownice wiedziały, co sprzedają https://dziennikpolski24.pl/nawet-czarownice-wiedzialy-co-sprzedaja/ar/2867902, interview. Dziennik Polski (in Polish).
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“A lot of people recoil from the word "drugs".”
David Pearce (philosopher) (1959) British transhumanist
which is understandable given today's noxious street drugs and their uninspiring medical counterparts. Yet even academics and intellectuals in our society typically take the prototypical dumb drug, ethyl alcohol. If it's socially acceptable to take a drug that makes you temporarily happy and stupid, then why not rationally design drugs to make people perpetually happier and smarter? Presumably, in order to limit abuse-potential, one would want any ideal pleasure drug to be akin - in one limited but important sense - to nicotine, where the smoker's brain finely calibrates its optimal level: there is no uncontrolled dose-escalation.<br><br>" The Abolitionist Project https://www.abolitionist.com/", Talks given at the FHI (Oxford University) and the Charity International Happiness Conference, 2007
Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) English short-story writer, poet, and novelist
Speech, quoted in The Times (February 15, 1923).
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Variant: Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
William F. Buckley Jr. (1925–2008) American conservative author and commentator
The War On Drugs Is Lost (1995)
“Porno is just like any other drug; after a while you start building up a tolerance to it.”
Richard Jeni (1957–2007) American comedian
A Big, Steaming Pile Of Me
William F. Buckley Jr. (1925–2008) American conservative author and commentator
The War On Drugs Is Lost (1995)
James P. Gray (1945) American judge
“Transcript of Judge James P. Gray's Visit to the Drug Policy Forum,” The New York Times, (June 14, 2001)
“Words must surely be counted among the most powerful drugs man ever invented.”
Leo Rosten (1908–1997) American writer
Frank Herbert (1920–1986) American writer
"Science Fiction and a World in Crisis" in Science Fiction: Today and Tomorrow (1974) edited by Reginald Bretnor
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Context: The current utopian ideal being touted by people as politically diverse (on the surface, but not underneath) as President Richard M. Nixon and Senator Edward M. Kennedy goes as follows — no deeds of passion allowed, no geniuses, no criminals, no imaginative creators of the new. Satisfaction may be gained only in carefully limited social interactions, in living off the great works of the past. There must be limits to any excitement. Drug yourself into a placid "norm." Moderation is the key word…