Our target tonight is a drug trafficking cartel. Mou Gaan Dou [Infernal Affairs] 2002 starring Tony Leung & Andy Lau & Shawn Yue & Anthony Wong & Eric Tsang & Chapman To & Gordon Lam & Kelly Chen & Sammi Cheng et al, directors Andrew Lau & Alan Mak, chief rozzer to young rozzers
Drugs changed everything. Layer Cake 2004 starring Daniel Craig & Colm Meaney & Kenneth Cranham & George Harris & Jamie Foreman & Sienna Miller & Michael Gambon & Marcel Iures & Tom Hardy & Tamer Hassan & Ben Whishaw & Burn Gorman et al, director Matthew Vaughn
England. Typical. Even drug dealers don’t work weekends. ibid. Eddie Temple
Welcome to the layer cake, son. ibid. Eddie Temple
Drug money is easy money. ibid.
Did you see that? They don’t even try to hide it now. I found a needle in the toilets last week. Harry Brown 2009 starring Michael Caine & Emily Mortimer & Charlie Creed Miles & David Bradley & Ben Drew & Sean Harris & Jack O'Connell & Jamie Downey & Lee Oakes & Joseph Gilgun & Liam Cunningham et al, director Daniel Barber, Len to Harry
One month today you will give your first official press conference. In it you will outline the president’s strategy for winning the war on drugs. Traffic 2000 starring Catherine Zeta-Jones & Michael Douglas & Benicio del Toro & JacobVargas & Marisol Padilla Sanchez & Tomas Milian & Amy Irving & Erika Christensen & Topher Grace & D W Moffett & James Brolin & Albert Finney et al, director Steven Soderbergh, boss
You realise the futility of what you’re doing and you do it anyway. ibid. witness to rozzer
Chon says drugs are a rational response to insanity. Savages 2012 starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson & Taylor Kitsch & Benicio del Toro & Blake Lively & John Travolta & Salma Hayek & Demian Bichir & Sandra Echeverria & Emile Hirsch et al, director Oliver Stone, her commentary
This is a totally new chemical. Once we have the formula we can make this stuff in a kitchen. The 51st State 2001 starring Samuel L Jackson & Robert Carlyle & Emily Mortimer & Sean Pertwee & Ricky Tomlinson & Meatloaf & Paul Barber & Jake Abraham et al, director Ronny Yu, chemist bloke
My product is 51 times stronger than cocaine, 51 times more hallucinogenic than acid, 51 times more explosive than ecstasy. It’s like getting a personal visit from God. ibid. Elmo
Football and drugs – a perfect Saturday afternoon. ibid. Liverpool dealer
When the riots stopped, the drugs started. Menace II Society 1993 starring Tyrin Turner & Jada Pinkett & Larenz Tate & Samuel L Jackson & Glen Plummer & Clifton Powell & Arnold Johnson et al, directors Allen & Albert Hughes
Between 2006 and 2011 the Mexican drug war has caused the deaths of over 36,000 people. In Mexico alone, drug trafficking generates $25 billion a year. Miss Bala 2011 starring Stephanie Sigman & Irene Azuela & Miguel Couturier & Gabriel Heads & Noe Hernandez & James Russo & Jose Yenque et al, director Gerardo Naranjo, caption
I love drugs. Yeah, have you ever noticed how the good words start with D? Bright Lights, Big City 1988 starring Michael J Fox & Kiefer Sutherland & Phoebe Cates & Dianne Wiest & Swoosie Kurtz & Frances Sternhagen & Tracy Pollan & John Houseman & Jason Robards & David Hyde Pierce et al, director James Bridges, her to him in loo
The worldwide illicit drug trade is over $360 billion annually. Worldwide annual sales of Microsoft are $58 billion. Over 49 million Americans have used cocaine, crack or heroin in the past year. Sacrifice 2011 starring Cuba Gooding junior & Christian Slater & Devon Bostick & Lara Daans & Kim Coates et al, director Damian Lee, caption
Trafficking is my business. And business is good. Dope Game 2002 starring David Dyno Rocha & Carlos Vasquez & James M Logan & Mark Rinks & Daniel Landeros & Justin Smith & David Petersen et al, directors Jose & Eduardo Quiroz, Mexican gangster
You’re a drug dealer and you don’t pay your taxes. Tequila Sunrise 1988 starring Mel Gibson & Kurt Russell & Michelle Pfeiffer & J T Walsh & Raul Julia & Gabriel Damon & Ely Pouget & Arliss Howard et al, director Robert Towne, Russell to Gibson
Street value $27,000,000 – on what street is that? ibid. Gibson
If I want to pedal sherbert, I’ll pedal sherbert. They Made Me a Fugitive 1939 starring Trevor Howard & Charles Farrell & Sally Gray & Griffith Jones & Rene Ray & Mary Merrall & Michael Brennan & Cyril Smith et al, director Alberto Cavalcanti
The big money now is in narcotics. Coffy 1973 starring Pam Grier & Booker Bradshaw & Robert Doqui & William Elliott & Allan Arbus & Sid Haig & Barry Cahill & Lee de Broux & Lisa Farringer et al, director Jack Hill, rozzer
Cut Rate Drugs. Saboteur 1942 starring Robert Cummings & Prescilla Lane & Otto Kruger & Alan Baxter & Clem Bevans & Norman Lloyd & Alma Kruger & Vaughan Glaser & Ian Wolfe & Dorothy Peterson & Selmer Jackson et al, director Alfred Hitchcock, shop sign
For the next five or six hours we’re gonna have the happiest crew in space. Star Trek: Wolf In The Fold s2e14, crew tranquillised
It’s those stimulants – they catch up with you. Star Trek s2e18: The Immunity Syndrome, McCoy
Could something be making me hallucinate? Star Trek s3e11: Wink of an Eye, Kirk to McCoy
It’s an addiction. The physical and psychological need is very real. Star Trek s1e22: The Next Generation s1e22: Symbiosis, Doctor Crusher on bridge
What I can’t understand is why anyone would voluntarily become dependent on a chemical. ibid. Wesley on bridge
Drugs can make you feel good. ibid. Yar on bridge
I want him off all the drugs. Star Trek: The Next Generation s3e7: The Enemy, Doctor Crusher
Valuvian crystals – ingesting just one of these will make days of tedious travel seem like moments of exquisite pleasure. Star Trek: Voyage s3e13, Fair Trade, man in market to Chakotay & Tom
It’s a mild mood enhancer. No side effects. Star Trek: Voyager s3e20: Favourite Son, alien geezer to Kim
She got into a bit of a panic; we had to give her some dope. Ice Cold in Alex 1957 starring John Mills & Sylvia Syms & Anthony Quayle & Harry Andrews & Diane Clare & Richard Leech & Liam Redmond & Peter Arne et al, director J Lee Thompson, Mills
He was supposed to be the supreme leader of a master race. A paragon of physical and mental health. To lead Germany to a glorious future. But behind the Fuhrer façade was a fragile pill-popper. Dependent on a dubious daily diet of injections, tablets and tonics. Nazi Underworld: Hitler’s Drug Use Revealed ***** National Geographic 2013
Drug abuse, sex stimulants, and psychological breakdowns. ibid.
Theodor Morell was the Fuhrer’s trusted personal doctor for nine years. ibid.
A Fuhrer off his face. A hapless hypochondriac, a higher Hitler. ibid.
Hitler was riding high in 1941. ibid.
Up to 28 different potions and pills Hitler swallowed every day. ibid.
He [Goering] took a huge number of tablets. In a downward spiral of addiction grey reality turned into a rose-coloured illusion. But reality kept catching up with him. Hitler’s Henchmen: Goering the Marshal, 1997
Alfred McCoy: The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade. Oliver Stone’s Untold History of the United States X: Bush & Obama: Age of Terror, Showtime 2013
Who’s on drugs here? ... He looks as if he’s on drugs. Prince Philip at Bangladeshi youth club 2002
Now, like, I’m President. It would be pretty hard for some drug guy to come into the White House and start offering it up, you know? ... I bet if they did, I hope I would say, ‘Hey, get lost. We don’t want any of that.’ George H W Bush to group of students
Our nation has zero tolerance for causal drug use. George H W Bush