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We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take… — Hunter S. Thompson

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We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.

Hunter S. Thompson
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas · 1971
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Drugs
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1971
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Hunter S. Thompson
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Thompson, Hunter S. "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream." Rolling Stone Magazine, 11 Nov. 1971.

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