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Either you were a hoodlum, or you were a puddle on the sidewalk.

Jerry Garcia

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Jerry Garcia
Age: 53 †
Born: 1942
Born: August 1
Died: 1995
Died: August 9
Banjoist
Composer
Film Director
Guitarist
Musician
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
San Francisco County
California
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We are experiencing a real confusion here in the United States, you know. Why is it OK to drink, but it's not OK to take drugs? Blah, blah, blah. What's a crime? What's criminality? What can you do, what can't you do, and so forth. All these things are really confusing. A lot of it is really contradictory it doesn't really make sense.
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All I know is, if you listen to society, you'll never get anywhere!
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What we do is as American as lynch mobs. America has always been a complex place.
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And as far as I'm concerned, it's like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.
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We've been trying to sell out for years, nobody's buying!
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It's a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things. If you want to separate the two, the thing you do is make drugs legal. Accept the reality that people do want to change their consciousness, and make an effort to make safer, healthier drugs.
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