Drugs In Rock Culture: Don’t Try This At Home
Ian Penman, Guardian, The, 2 August 1996
TAKING DRUGS CHANGES things. It changes your blood stream and brain waves and bank balance; your heart rate and slang of choice and the circumference - moon crater or microdot - of your pupils.
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