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Rolling Stones star gives up drugs - because they're too weak
Daily Mail ^ | 20th September 2006

Posted on 09/23/2006 4:39:32 PM PDT by John Lenin

Rolling Stones star 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.


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He's right!
1 posted on 09/23/2006 4:39:33 PM PDT by John Lenin
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YEAH Keith you did all the drugs LOL!


2 posted on 09/23/2006 4:40:12 PM PDT by SevenofNine (I'd rather hunt with Dick Cheney than ride with Ted Kennedy)
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To: John Lenin

Why did he climb that tree, anyway?


3 posted on 09/23/2006 4:41:05 PM PDT by Rocko ("I tried and failed" -- The impeached and disbarred Bill Clinton.)
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To: John Lenin

Keith did drugs???


4 posted on 09/23/2006 4:41:10 PM PDT by Always Right
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He said: "I really think the quality's gone down. All they do is try and take the high out of everything.

So true, Keef. The stuffed shirts are always taking away our fun.

5 posted on 09/23/2006 4:42:44 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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" The stuffed shirts are always taking away our fun."

LOL.

6 posted on 09/23/2006 4:45:08 PM PDT by blam
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To: John Lenin
I'd say "shut up and play," but he's got a good sense of humor. And he's the godfather of rock and roll, imho.

wish he didn't look so scary...kinda hoping he's getting his act with God right...

7 posted on 09/23/2006 4:46:21 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand ("...peace is the result of victory...")
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To: the invisib1e hand
I'd say "shut up and play," but he's got a good sense of humor.

That he does. ....and he never discusses politics. In fact, he got on Jagger's case bigtime for writing "Sweet Neocon." Keith knows politics and rock and roll don't mix.

8 posted on 09/23/2006 4:51:30 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: Rocko
Why did he climb that tree, anyway?

To avoid marrying the chief's ugly daughter?

9 posted on 09/23/2006 4:51:50 PM PDT by coconutt2000 (NO MORE PEACE FOR OIL!!! DOWN WITH TYRANTS, TERRORISTS, AND TIMIDCRATS!!!! (3-T's For World Peace))
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I think they mix quite nicely in Ted Nugent's case.


10 posted on 09/23/2006 5:06:41 PM PDT by octobersky
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To: Mr. Mojo
"Sweet Neocon."

Just curious, but during which presidential administration was that song written/performed?

11 posted on 09/23/2006 5:07:24 PM PDT by MotleyGirl70
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To: MotleyGirl70

This last year.


12 posted on 09/23/2006 5:07:57 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: John Lenin

Picture of Health

13 posted on 09/23/2006 5:18:09 PM PDT by llevrok (When you take my gin from my cold, dead hand....)
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To: coconutt2000
A subplot in the next Pirates of the Caribbean movie.
14 posted on 09/23/2006 5:21:27 PM PDT by Rocko ("I tried and failed" -- The impeached and disbarred Bill Clinton.)
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To: the invisib1e hand

Rumor has it that Keith went to Switzerland sometime in the 1970s and had a total blood transfusion and his kidneys and liver replaced. That's why he has lived as long as he has.


15 posted on 09/23/2006 5:22:20 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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"I really think the quality's gone down..."

He probably just has too high a tolerance level for opiates now to ever recapture the euphoria they could give him when he was younger.
16 posted on 09/23/2006 5:22:32 PM PDT by Welsh Rabbit
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To: Always Right

"...Keith did drugs???..."

And Hannity wrote a book or two.


17 posted on 09/23/2006 5:24:55 PM PDT by NCC-1701 (RADICAL ISLAM IS A CULT. IT MUST BE ELIMINATED FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH.)
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To: llevrok

18 posted on 09/23/2006 5:28:34 PM PDT by John Lenin
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To: John Lenin

Instead of blaming his worn out endorphins on bad drugs, he should be thanking God he's still alive.


19 posted on 09/23/2006 5:28:57 PM PDT by Vision ("As a man thinks...so is he." Proverbs 23:7)
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To: Mr. Mojo

They were singing about Bush/republicans I assume?


20 posted on 09/23/2006 5:29:13 PM PDT by MotleyGirl70
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