Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use of any other d…

William S. Burroughs
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Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use of any other drug with special horror. ✨ Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs, Grove Press, (p. 201), 1959.
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