Forces of Habit Quotes

“The catch is that, when this generation passes, its immunity passes with it. When cocaine again became fashionable during the 1970s, baby boomers had no living memory of its downside. Having sampled and survived the forbidden fruit of cannabis, they were openly skeptical of official warnings about cocaine and other drugs.”
― David T. Courtwright, Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World

“But, as Eric Hoffer once observed, aspiring leaders cannot create mass movements unless conditions are historically ripe.”
― David T. Courtwright, Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World

“abuse of drugs was not “a mysterious and inexplicable natural catastrophe, but a form”
― David T. Courtwright, Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World