Reply #17: Rush Limbaugh quotes on drug use [View All]

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

"When you strip it all away," Rush had said of the Grateful Dead guitarist, "Jerry Garcia destroyed his life on drugs. And yet he's being honored, like some godlike figure. Our priorities are out of whack, folks."

"By legalizing drugs, all you're going to do is define further deviance downward," he said. "We have a duty to pass our values to our descendents. Values that will maintain the standards of behavior and ensure the survivability of the American way of life. And drugs are no different. You end up destroying more than yourself."

And, of course, MY favorite:

"Drug use, some might say, is destroying this country. And we have laws against selling drugs, pushing drugs, using drugs, importing drugs. ... And so if people are violating the law by doing drugs, they ought to be accused and they ought to be convicted and they ought to be sent up."