Wizard Priest

Q: You don’t approve of other drugs Charles Manson:  I don’t approve or disapprove of anything.  I don’t like what goes along with them.  I don’t like downer freaks because they generally end up causing trouble, and them you have to beat one of them up, and when you beat one of them up, they can’t feel it anyway.

Q:  There’s a different kind of drug usage today than there was in the late sixties.  What do you think about today’s drugs Charles Manson:  I think everything is good if used properly. […] I remember when there was nobody in jail for drugs…. Remember when they put out that movie “Reefer Madness”  All that insane bullshit, and then everybody started putting all their problems off on drugs and blaming the drugs for their behavior.  […]  Marijuana’s never been a drug.  And then they come up with LSD, so they pushed LSD over on the drug market.  LSD isn’t drugs.  And then peyote.  Peyote isn’t drugs.  Your body is yours.  Your mind is yours.  And you should be able to do what you want to do with your body and your mind.

Q:  Would you tell today’s kids to use or not use drugs Charles Manson:  I would say, change the laws and use the motivation of drugs for a positive purpose.  Sell it in the drugstore.  If you work and earn it then you can have it.  I think it is bad when people won’t allow other people to be themselves.  If I tell you don’t pick that up [he places a matchbook on the table], don’t pick that up, don’t even think of picking that up, I don’t want you to, don’t you dare — Q:  I have the compulsion to pick it up. Charles Manson:  Exactly, and that’s exactly what we are doing to the kids.

Q:  So you think we should legalize — Charles Manson:  Put it in the drugstore man.