Marijuana. Boy, I thought that was just terrible. How could this great man do this to his life?

I wanted to have a normal childhood. Normal relationships.

Acid wasn't getting a whole lot of bad press at the time, and as I saw the whole bad-press thing happen, I became aware that the government had done a whole lie on all the other benign drugs as well. It became clear to me that the government wanted no real drug education.

There's a big difference between somebody who does acid on weekends and somebody who takes downers every day.

There was this little shaggy dog on it, and Frank Weatherwax was working the dog. One day we were all sitting around, and Frank said, listen, my brother Rudd just got the rights back from MGM for Lassie, and said have your agent check into it. I did, and I went for a screen test.

Yeah, dog was this man's best friend, for sure.

I was totally devastated for four years in the mid '60s when l tried to buck the tide.