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Rolling Stones Star Gives Up Drugs - Because They're Too Weak
Sat, Sep 23, 2006 5:08 pm
source: dailymail.co.uk
Rolling Stones star Keith Richards says he has finally given up drugs - because they are too weak to give him a high.
The group's guitarist has complained that modern drugs lack power, claiming that dealers and chemists have reduced their strength.
The 62-year-old former heroin addict told The Sun that modern drugs such as ecstasy "mess with the brain".
He said: "I really think the quality's gone down. All they do is try and take the high out of everything.
"I don't like the way they're working on the brain area instead of just through the blood system.
"That's why I don't take any of them any more. And you're talking to a person who knows his drugs."
He said the only time he would take drugs is if having a medical proceedure, adding that he asked a nurse for extra morphine when he hit his head after falling from a tree in Fiji in April.
"She was very accommodating," he joked.
Richards is currently on a world tour with the rest of the Rolling Stones.
The group's guitarist has complained that modern drugs lack power, claiming that dealers and chemists have reduced their strength.
The 62-year-old former heroin addict told The Sun that modern drugs such as ecstasy "mess with the brain".
He said: "I really think the quality's gone down. All they do is try and take the high out of everything.
"I don't like the way they're working on the brain area instead of just through the blood system.
"That's why I don't take any of them any more. And you're talking to a person who knows his drugs."
He said the only time he would take drugs is if having a medical proceedure, adding that he asked a nurse for extra morphine when he hit his head after falling from a tree in Fiji in April.
"She was very accommodating," he joked.
Richards is currently on a world tour with the rest of the Rolling Stones.
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Good stuff
Jul 23 2010, 8:08 pm
Bob
Oct 12 2006, 2:50 am
ROLLING STONES ROCK!!!!!!
Oct 2 2006, 1:39 pm
BRIAN IN CANADA
Sep 28 2006, 7:04 pm
kyle
Sep 28 2006, 2:18 am
BLuNTsMoKa420
Sep 26 2006, 11:16 pm
i wish they would relect saddam go kkk
ooogkush
Sep 26 2006, 10:29 pm
garrett
Sep 26 2006, 11:29 am
StonesSuck
Sep 25 2006, 7:39 pm
if
Sep 25 2006, 5:36 pm
csi:stickyicky
Sep 25 2006, 4:51 pm
skunksmokeranyomousDMT
Sep 25 2006, 11:29 am
Bullshit
Sep 25 2006, 5:39 am
I wonder if the drugs have anything to do with Keith looking so much like a used bitch.
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Sep 24 2006, 10:12 pm
Mista Teeee
Sep 24 2006, 7:06 pm
Keith Richards
Sep 24 2006, 7:05 pm
Dkzero
Sep 24 2006, 7:03 pm
me too
Sep 24 2006, 5:45 pm
Pooterjunkie
Sep 24 2006, 3:44 pm
C
Sep 24 2006, 2:48 pm
Voters will think "oh I knew those potheads were just like any other drug addict! we need harsher penalties now to protect our children from this scourge!"
NJsmoker
Sep 24 2006, 1:37 pm
Keith Richards and the Stones know their shit,
CAN YOU SEE ME..IN THE CITADEL
sup yall!!!+
Sep 24 2006, 1:22 pm
never quit
Sep 24 2006, 1:15 pm
macdaddy
Sep 24 2006, 1:12 pm
chris.
Sep 24 2006, 12:36 pm
chris.
Sep 24 2006, 12:35 pm
ba hahahaha
Sep 24 2006, 11:26 am
C
Sep 23 2006, 8:34 pm
ha ha
Sep 23 2006, 5:29 pm
Thats like an alcoholic giving up mouthwash when he drops his habbit.
420 K.G.B.
Sep 23 2006, 5:21 pm
Well Weed is better than ever now Keith! Go smoke a good ol' bowl of Dutch!
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