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"A lot of my friends were fooling around with drugs then."
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"Hallucinations are bad enough. But after awhile you learn to cope with things like seeing your dead grandmother crawling up your leg with a knife in her teeth. Most acid fanciers can handle this sort of thing. But nobody can handle that other trip-the possibility that any freak with $1.98 can walk into the Circus-Circus and suddenly appear in the sky over downtown Las Vegas twelve times the size of God, howling anything that comes into his head. No, this is not a good town for psychedelic drugs."
"I was very laced with drugs myself, but Fred seemed to be even more so than me. That might have had something to do with it. That might have had something to do with nobody wanting to play my records, too, I don't know."
"Opium makes you quick-witted - perhaps only because it calms the nerves and stills the emotions. Nothing, not even death, seems so important."
"And as far as I'm concerned, it's like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem."
"I think hard drugs are disgusting. But I must say, I think marijuana is pretty lightweight."
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"There's a big difference between somebody who does acid on weekends and somebody who takes downers every day."
"My mom was a Democrat and I was scared to death that she was gonna blow it. First I was going to hell with Monroe, and now to Republican hell with Nixon."
"Marijuana. Boy, I thought that was just terrible. How could this great man do this to his life?"
"Then l learned to play guitar and l started writing songs and my mother formed for me a publishing business, so we started publishing and managing artists."
"It was the worst period of my life. I had all this gigantic acceptance as a kid, and all of a sudden there was this monumental rejection."
"Yes, there was nothing else to do to get you high. I mean, there was, but white kids didn't hear about it."
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