A significant factor often overlooked by those considering the failure of drug policy is the general aim of deflecting or assigning responsibility away from the policy-makers and the ‘moral-majority.

What better way to oppose the monopolisation of truth and meaning than to go in search of their foundations within one’s own psyche?

Moral ideas about what constitutes a meritorious or meaningful use of one’s life and opportunities produce specific attitudes towards drug use and intoxication.

if we want individuals to take responsibility for their actions we must first establish a rational, effective and empowering means of separating individual responsibility from that of the collective.

The drug problem’ cannot be understood without a critical examination of the language and narratives of underpinning the explanatory models invoked to prove that there is a 'drug problem.

When the need to succeed is as bad as the need to breathe, then you’ll be successful.

Many people find bald, unvarnished truths so disturbing, they prefer to ram their heads in the sand and start dreaming at the first sign of scientific reality.

Fairy tales are make believe and reality sucks, but I happen to live in both worlds.

There's people being murdered unjustly and not being held accountable. People are being given paid leave for killing people. That's not right. That's not right by anyone's standards.

Never forget where you came from. That's what I think when I walk into a cave.

A man will never fear something besides Allah unless it be due to a disease in his heart.

You psychologists focus on what is wrong with people; I want to focus on what is right and what could be right.

Reducing military presence has never in history won a war.

The manager could not even talk to us at the interval. He said we were bad.

We're lucky to be in the middle of a TV renaissance. It's the healthiest storytelling medium in our culture.