In fact if I see you drinking I'll come down on you like a ton of bricks and call your mom.

I think it's worth trying to be a mother who delights in who her children are, in their knock-knock jokes and earnest questions. A mother who spends less time obsessing about what will happen, or what has happened, and more time reveling in what is.

The legalization of drugs, a proliferation of a public health approach to drug use and drug addition, a compassionate mental health system. And can we just say gender equality and the end of mass incarceration and the final shedding of the vestiges of a slave-based nation? Can we have that, too? Can I have it all?

I've only ever been interested in drugs as therapeutic tools.

Here are my Mommy Messages: Wear a condom and test your Molly.

My own husband was divorced when we met, but without kids. I don't know what I would have done if he'd had them. I got the message very early on that the worst mistake a woman can make is marrying a man with children.

There is no fundamental truth and there's nothing to be connected to: I just believe that [LSD] makes you feel better.