Drugs. If they did not exist our governors would have invented them in order to prohibit them and so make much of the population vulnerable to arrest… - Gore Vidal

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Drugs. If they did not exist our governors would have invented them in order to prohibit them and so make much of the population vulnerable to arrest, imprisonment, seizure of property, and so on.

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About Gore Vidal

Eugene Luther Gore Vidal (born Eugene Louis Vidal; (3 October 1925 – 31 July 2012), was an American writer of novels, essays, screenplays, and stage plays.

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Alternative Names: Eugene Luther Gore Vidal • Gor Vidal • Cameron Kay • Eugene Luther Vidal • Edgar Box • Katherine Everard • Eugene Vidal
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