“Treat any and all drugs with respect, for most of the time they are stronger than you are.”

— William Powell (author), book The Anarchist Cookbook

Source: The Anarchist Cookbook (1971), Chapter One: "Drugs", p. 59.

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author of The Anarchist Cookbook 1949

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