Drugs, Drug Films and Books?

Question

Does anyone have any good quotes about drugs from films or books - would really help :-)

By the way, for "Grandma"s information, I am making a presentation to show to 16 year olds in a drug education class, and trying to add some quotes and pictures from films which they will be interested in, but which don't glamourise drugs, and that give them the truth about the gritty downward spiral that is addiction. You clearly dont realise how hard it is to be unpatronising, but to get your message across.

Answer 1

"We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a saltshaker half-full of cocaine, and a whole multi colored collection of uppers, downers, laughers, screamers... Also, a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether, and two dozen amyls. Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge, and I knew we'd get into that rotten stuff pretty soon."

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Answer 2

The following quotes are from the recently deceased Hunter S. Thompson, author of "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas", "The Great Shark Hunt", and other amazing books in which drugs play a key role in his true adventures as the king of gonzo journalism.

"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone.... but they've always worked for me."

"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."

"You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye."

"This is the main advantage of ether: it makes you behave like the village drunkard in some early Irish novel... total loss of all basic motor skills: blurred vision, no balance, numb tounge- severance of all connection between the body and the brain. Which is interesting because you can actually watch yourself behaving in this terrible way, but you can't control it."

"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."


Rest in peace, Hunter.

Answer 3

yeah, you really just need to look up the book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. It is just about the authority on the subject. The author's name is Hunter S. Thompson - a writer for rolling stone magizine in the 1960s - 1970s. It is also a movie starring Johnny Depp and Benitio Del Toro. The book is written suberbly and the movie is just as funny and enjoyable.

Answer 4

Try Requiem for a Dream

Plot Outline: The hopes and dreams of four ambitious people are shattered when their drug addictions begin spiraling out of control.

I saw that movie when I was 18 and it really freaked me out. I've never done pills and I never will.

Another good one is Trainspotting. That crackbaby was the saddest/scariest thing in the entire movie.

Answer 5

Anything by Hunter S. Thompson.

Also since I myself have sat through many of these drug "talks" provided by schools I would seriously recommend not exagerating or embelishing just to get your point across about how bad drugs are. I think that is the exact point in which most teenagers turn off and go "whatever." I would have really appreicated for teachers just to give us the straight facts and not lie about how smoking one cigerette is just like smoking crack; it was ridiculous and we all knew it and we all shut off.

Answer 6

Lesson number one: Don't underestimate the other guy's greed!
Lesson number two: Don't get high on your own supply.

Is this it? That's what it's all about, Manny? Eating, drinking, f*cking, sucking? Snorting? Then what? You're 50. You got a bag for a belly. You got t*ts, you need a bra. They got hair on them. You got a liver, they got spots on it, and you're eating this f*ckin' sh*t, looking like these rich f*cking mummies in here... Look at that. A junkie. I got a f*ckin' junkie for a wife. She don't eat nothing. Sleeps all day with them black shades on. Wakes up with a Quaalude, and who won't f*ck me 'cause she's in a coma. I can't even have a kid with her, Manny. Her womb is so polluted, I can't even have a f*ckin' little baby with her!

(scarface)

Narrator: We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like:
Raoul Duke: I feel a bit lightheaded. Maybe you should drive.
Narrator: Suddenly, there was a terrible roar all around us, and the sky was full with what looked like huge bats, all swooping and screeching and diving around the car, and a voice was screaming:
Raoul Duke: Holy Jesus! What are these goddamn animals?!
Dr. Gonzo: Did you say something?
Raoul Duke: Hm? Never mind. It's your turn to drive.
Narrator: No point in mentioning these bats, I thought. Poor bastard will see them soon enough.

Gonzo: [After cocaine blows away in the wind] Did you see what GOD just did to us man!
Duke: God didn't do that, you did! You're a f*cking narcotics agent, I knew it. That was our cocaine you f*cking pig, scum [swats at him with fly swatter] Pig, swine, whore!
Gonzo: [Pointing gun at Duke] Careful. There are plenty of buzzards out here, they'll pick your bones dry in no time.
Duke: You whore...
Gonzo: (holding up some acid) He he heeee, here's your half of the Sunshine Acid, EAT IT!
Duke: Yeah, all right sure. How long do I have?
Gonzo: As your attorney I advise you to drive at top speed and it'll be a Goddamn miracle if we get there before you turn into some kind of wild animal. Are you ready for that? Checking into a Las Vegas hotel under a phoney name with the intent to commit capital fraud on a head full of acid? I certainly hope so...

(Fear and loathing in las vegas)

Answer 7

This quote is from Basic Instinct, so you might have heard it. Well, not exactly a quote but anyway...

The Sharon Stone character, Catherine Trammell, says early on in the movie that she enjoys taking cocaine with her drink.

Later, when the Michael Douglas character offers her a drink, she asks him flirtily if he has coke to go with it. He offers her Pepsi instead !

Answer 8

"I'm really looking forward to being clean again. It's this weird thing with smack. First off it makes you feel so good. But after a bit, after your body gets used to it, it stops working like that. You start needing it just to stay normal... Then you get sick of it and give it up for a few days. And that's the really nasty thing beacause then, when you're clean, that's when it works so well." Melvin Burgess

Answer 9

No, but the book and movie titled seven percent solution deals with the paranoia Sherlock Holmes faces while on drugs.

Answer 10

look up anything from Hunter S. Thompson

his best drug quotes come sporadically through his gonzo papers he put out during the 70's and 80's