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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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KEYWORDS: keef; keithrichards; rollingstones
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He's right!
To: John Lenin
YEAH Keith you did all the drugs LOL!
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posted on
09/23/2006 4:40:12 PM PDT
by
SevenofNine
(I'd rather hunt with Dick Cheney than ride with Ted Kennedy)
To: John Lenin
Why did he climb that tree, anyway?
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posted on
09/23/2006 4:41:05 PM PDT
by
Rocko
("I tried and failed" -- The impeached and disbarred Bill Clinton.)
To: John Lenin
To: John Lenin
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.
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posted on
09/23/2006 4:42:44 PM PDT
by
Mr. Mojo
To: Mr. Mojo
" The stuffed shirts are always taking away our fun." LOL.
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posted on
09/23/2006 4:45:08 PM PDT
by
blam
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...
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posted on
09/23/2006 4:46:21 PM PDT
by
the invisib1e hand
("...peace is the result of victory...")
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.
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posted on
09/23/2006 4:51:30 PM PDT
by
Mr. Mojo
To: Rocko
Why did he climb that tree, anyway? To avoid marrying the chief's ugly daughter?
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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))
To: Mr. Mojo
I think they mix quite nicely in Ted Nugent's case.
To: Mr. Mojo
"Sweet Neocon." Just curious, but during which presidential administration was that song written/performed?
To: MotleyGirl70
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posted on
09/23/2006 5:07:57 PM PDT
by
Mr. Mojo
To: John Lenin

Picture of Health
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posted on
09/23/2006 5:18:09 PM PDT
by
llevrok
(When you take my gin from my cold, dead hand....)
To: coconutt2000
A subplot in the next Pirates of the Caribbean movie.
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posted on
09/23/2006 5:21:27 PM PDT
by
Rocko
("I tried and failed" -- The impeached and disbarred Bill Clinton.)
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.
To: John Lenin
"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.
To: Always Right
"...Keith did drugs???..."
And Hannity wrote a book or two.
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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.)
To: llevrok
To: John Lenin
Instead of blaming his worn out endorphins on bad drugs, he should be thanking God he's still alive.
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posted on
09/23/2006 5:28:57 PM PDT
by
Vision
("As a man thinks...so is he." Proverbs 23:7)
To: Mr. Mojo
They were singing about Bush/republicans I assume?
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