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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."

"If you don't think drugs have done good things for us, then take all of your records, tapes and CD's and burn them."

"Stay away from drugs. They're not worth it. I've tried, but there's none of them that's worth it."

"When drugs came around I sampled them just like anybody else but I never became dependent creatively on drugs; like various cartoonists in the underground never did anything if they weren't stoned, That was the prerequisite for sitting down and drawing."

"Drugs ruin peoples lives, break up families and have disastrous effects on our communities."
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