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Narcotics Have Been Systematically Scapegoated And Demonized. The Idea That Anyone Can Use Drugs And Escape A Horrible Fate Is Ananathema To These Idiots. I Predict That In The Near Future, Right Wingers Will Use Drug Hysteria As A Pretext To Set Up An International Police Apparatus.

-Gus Van Sant

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Narcotics Have Been Systematically Scapegoated And Demonized.

Gus Van Sant

Narcotics Have Been Systematically Scapegoated And Demonized. The Idea That Anyone Can Use Drugs And Escape A Horrible Fate Is Ananathema To These Idiots. I Predict That In The Near Future, Right Wingers Will Use Drug Hysteria As A Pretext To Set Up An International Police Apparatus.

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