Latest George Jung Quotes from Interviews

• The war on drugs was an ideology the government came up with, and there never really was a war on drugs. I mean, to stop the importation of drugs into the United States of America is an impossibility.

  George Jung

  War, Mean, Government

  Source: www.pbs.org

• After a while, the cocaine - I didn't have any friends. I was just alone and I didn't even like myself.

  George Jung

  Cocaine

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Any marijuana transaction I ever did with anyone, there were never any guns involved, ever.

  George Jung

  Gun, Marijuana, Transactions

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I was snorting a lot of cocaine and I had lost myself to a great degree. A lot of people, everybody was starting to realize what the coke was all about and they were all starting to get lost.

  George Jung

  People, Coke, Degrees

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Basically I was no different than a rock star or a movie star. I was a coke star.

  George Jung

  Stars, Rocks, Coke

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I thought cocaine was a fantastic drug. A wonder drug, like everybody else. It gave you [an] energy burst. You could stay awake for days on end, and it was just marvelous and I didn't think it was evil at all.

  George Jung

  Thinking, Evil, Drug

  Source: www.pbs.org

• If somebody had come to me and said will you move heroin, I would have told them no.

  George Jung

  Moving, Heroin, Said

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I thought heroin was evil and morally, myself, I thought that pot was okay. That it wasn't a bad thing and so therefore thought I wasn't doing a bad thing. I knew I was breaking the law but I thought that the law was wrong also. So I morally justified what I was doing.

  George Jung

  Law, Evil, Justified

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Strange thing, when they arrested me for the pot, the federal agents, they said, "We're sorry, we really don't want to bust pot people but this is tied into a heroin operation and we have to arrest you."

  George Jung

  Sorry, People, Agents

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Nixon wasn't really considered the president by the youth of America. He was considered to be a fraud and which he proved himself to be.

  George Jung

  America, President, Youth

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I felt that there was nothing wrong with what I was doing because I was supplying a product to people that wanted it and it was accepted. I mean nobody really was making any negative statements about marijuana.

  George Jung

  Mean, Marijuana, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

• In fact, I was welcomed. There were movie stars and rock stars. I became a pot star. I glorified in that. And of course as time wore on the business began to expand and grow. It went from more or less a college fun thing to a serious business. As the money grew, the power grew.

  George Jung

  Stars, Fun, College

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Smoking marijuana - or most everybody who smokes marijuana deals it in small amounts to their friends, innocently enough. I think it's innocently enough.

  George Jung

  Marijuana, Thinking, Smoking

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I suddenly began to realize that to become an entrepreneur in the marijuana business would make me fairly well off. And I also liked the lifestyle, my own working hours.

  George Jung

  Marijuana, Entrepreneur, Realizing

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I hope there's a life after life - and maybe I can even come back again and get on another train, and ride and gain some more wisdom.

  George Jung

  Gains, Back Again, Train

  Interview with Chris Simunek, hightimes.com. August 5, 2015.

• That's a terrible price to pay because you loved life so much, with the intensity of a thousand suns, and the women and all of it - and then it's all taken away from you. You end up walking the hallways of always to a place called tedium and apathy, day after day after day. Years go by.

  George Jung

  Taken, Years, Apathy

  Interview with Chris Simunek, hightimes.com. August 5, 2015.

• I've had so many great experiences in my life, of living total free will, that I wouldn't change it for all the gold in the earth.

  George Jung

  Gold, Earth, Free Will

  Interview with Chris Simunek, hightimes.com. August 5, 2015.

• I was the kid who would take the car out at night when he was 16 and see if he can redline it. And then there's the kid who will be careful of it because it's his dad's car, or whatever, and drive it safely home and go to bed. And that's how my whole life was.

  George Jung

  Dad, Home, Kids

  Interview with Chris Simunek, hightimes.com. August 5, 2015.

• People don't grow up to become thrill junkies - they're born like that.

  George Jung

  Growing Up, People, Thrill

  Interview with Chris Simunek, hightimes.com. August 5, 2015.

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