I had always turned it down-to me, smoking pot was absolutely the worst thing in the world. I thought of it as an addiction, and all my friends who smoked it, I felt they really needed help. – Tommy Rettig
I was totally devastated for four years in the mid ’60s when l tried to buck the tide. – Tommy Rettig
Yes, there was nothing else to do to get you high. I mean, there was, but white kids didn’t hear about it. – Tommy Rettig
There’s a big difference between somebody who does acid on weekends and somebody who takes downers every day. – Tommy Rettig
Acid wasn’t getting a whole lot of bad press at the time, and as I saw the whole bad-press thing happen, I became aware that the government had done a whole lie on all the other benign drugs as well. It became clear to me that the government wanted no real drug education. – Tommy Rettig
Well, I went to school with Jan and Dean, Ryan O’Neal, some of the Beach Boys we all use to party together. – Tommy Rettig
Marijuana. Boy, I thought that was just terrible. How could this great man do this to his life? – Tommy Rettig
My mom was a Democrat and I was scared to death that she was gonna blow it. First I was going to hell with Monroe, and now to Republican hell with Nixon. – Tommy Rettig
Then l learned to play guitar and l started writing songs and my mother formed for me a publishing business, so we started publishing and managing artists. – Tommy Rettig
It was the worst period of my life. I had all this gigantic acceptance as a kid, and all of a sudden there was this monumental rejection. – Tommy Rettig
