Rick Doblin Quotes

#1. Once you've produced the scientific data that's necessary to make a drug into a medicine, you've gone a long way towards mainstreaming the acceptance of these drugs as having beneficial properties. And then the step to legalization is not that far behind that.

Rick Doblin

#2. What cultural revolutionaries do not seem to grasp is that, far from being a grass-roots art form that has been taken over by businessmen, rock itself comes from the commercial exploitation of the blues.

Ellen Willis

#3. Our lips meet and he playfully bites me." - Sofia Herrera (Total Abandonment, Unbearable Passion, #4)

Scarlett Avery

#4. It's obvious that I'm a stranger to her; she doesn't even know what I think about the most ordinary things.

Anne Frank

#5. We are all dying and we all have some anxiety about it. And so people are more scared of dying than they are of drugs. If we can show that people who are facing death can be assisted with psychedelics that's a powerful message.

Rick Doblin

#6. Few of us will forget the wail of mingled grief, rage and horror which rose from the camp when the Indians returned to it and recognized their slaughtered warriors, women, and children.

John Gibbon

#7. My brief survey of stimulant aphrodisiacs would be incomplete were I to fail to include that most famous love drug of all time, chocolate or cacao, from the seeds of Theobroma cacao.

Rick Doblin

#8. Terence McKenna pointed out that the profundity of [halluncinogenic inebriation] and its potential for a positive feedback into the process of reorganizing the personality should have long ago made psychedelics an indispensable tool for psychotherapy.

Rick Doblin

#9. Careful, Quint. She goes from cute to carnivorous in 2.5 seconds.

C.K. Dawn

#10. It should come as no surprise to readers of the MAPS Bulletin that psychedelic plants are used as a sacrament by many native cultures all over the world. It may not be so obvious that these same plants are often incorporated into the coming-of-age ceremonies of these various societies.

Rick Doblin

#11. With this kind of camera-phone madness we have got, moments are diluted into self-contained edited experiences.

Doc Brown

#12. If you want to understand UFOs, reincarnation and God, do not study UFOs, reincarnation and God. Study people.

Scott Adams

#13. People tend to link "sex and drugs" because both are condemned by society. Nevertheless, throughout the ages human beings have continually searched for more ecstasy, more sexual satisfaction, for solutions to their sexual problems, and for aphrodisiacs.

Rick Doblin