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1676

★ 1.9

Autobiography and memoir

Cocaine habit-forming? Of course not. I ought to know. I've been using it for years.

Tallulah Bankhead

1952

★ 1.9

Song · Folk rock

Mother needs something today to calm her down, And though she's not really ill, There's a little yellow pill She goes running for the shelter Of her mother's little helper And it helps her on her way, Gets her through her busy day.

The Rolling Stones

Mother's Little Helper · 1966

★ 1.9

Novel

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

★ 1.9

Take me, I am the drug.

Salvador Dali

1970

★ 2.1

Film · Crime (film) · Drama (film) · Crime · Drama

Lesson number two: don't get high on your own supply.

Elvira Hancock

Scarface · 1983

★ 2.2

Comedy album · Comedy (stand up)

If carrots got you drunk, rabbits would be fucked up.

Mitch Hedberg

Strategic Grill Locations · 1999

★ 2.2

Autobiography and memoir

That humanity at large will ever be able to dispense with Artificial Paradises seems very unlikely. Most men and women lead lives at the worst so painful, at the best so monotonous, poor and limited that the urge to escape, the longing to transcend themselves if only for a few moments, is and has always been one of the principal appetites of the soul.

Aldous Huxley

1954

★ 3.5

Autobiography and memoir

A drug is neither moral or immoral-it's a chemical compound. The compound itself is not a menace to society until a human being treats it as if consumption bestowed a temporary licence to act like an asshole.

Frank Zappa

1989

★ 3.5

Film · Comedy drama (film) · Comedy drama

Personality, I mean, that's what counts, right? Personality, that's what keeps a relationship going through the years. Like heroin. I mean, heroin's got great fucking personality!

Sick Boy

Trainspotting · 1996

★ 3.5

Song · Hip hop

Life's a bitch and then you die That's why we get high Cause you never know When you're gonna go.

Nas

Life's a Bitch · 1994

★ 3.6

Film · Comedy drama (film) · Comedy drama

When you're on junk you have only one worry: scoring. When you're off it, you are suddenly obliged to worry about all sorts of other shite. Got no money: can't get pissed. Got money: drinking too much. Can't get a bird: no chance of a ride. Got a bird: too much hassle. You have to worry about bills, about food, about some football team that never fucking wins, about human relationships and all the things that really don't matter when you've got a sincere and truthful junk habit.

Mark Renton

Trainspotting · 1996

★ 3.6

Speech

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Rudyard Kipling

1923

★ 3.7

Song · Rock music

What a long, strange trip it's been.

The Grateful Dead

Truckin' · 1970

★ 3.7

Comedy album · Comedy (stand up)

I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to, too.

Mitch Hedberg

Strategic Grill Locations · 1999

★ 3.7

Magazine · Autobiography and memoir

Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh just, subtle, and mighty opium.

Thomas De Quincey

London Magazine · 1821

★ 3.8

Song · Rock music

Purple haze all in my brain Lately things don't seem the same.

Jimi Hendrix

Purple Haze · 1967

★ 3.8

TV program · Crime (TV) · Drama (TV) · Crime · Drama

There’s no chemical solution to a spiritual problem.

Christopher Moltisanti

The Sopranos · 2004

★ 3.8

Comedy special · Comedy (stand up)

You could get rid of all the crack, all the herb, all the blow, you know what would happen? People would just think of new ways of getting high. That's right, guys would go in their basement and become scientists, like "Yo check this out, check this out. You know, if you get a baby's bottle, right, fill it up with a little gasoline and a dead lima bean and suck it, you'll be fucked up!"

Chris Rock

Bring the Pain · 1996

★ 4.5

Novel · Magazine · Detective fiction

It is cocaine...a seven-per-cent solution. Would you care to try it?

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Sign of Four · 1890

★ 4.5

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