The right to free speech is important but it isn't as important as 'we're all human beings together, let's find solutions together.'

I am too busy thinking about killing myself.

... And drinking neat liquor from the bottle, with all my long hair and my shirt undone and my beads, not so much the lizard king, more a gecko duchess, I fitted in nicely with their idea of what a creative person should be.

The priority of any addict is to anaesthetise the pain of living to ease the passage of day with some purchased relief.

And while we're on the subject of ducks, which we plainly are, the story, 'The Ugly Duckling' ought be banned as the central character wasn't a duckling or he wouldn't have grown up into a swan. He was a cygnet.

I'm a recovering drug addict, so it's not a subject that I take lightly, but I do agree that the criminalization of narcotics is the deliberate inhibition of human consciousness.

Thus another friendship was dashed on the cruel rocks amid the storm of my self-destruction.