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 wanted to go to regular high school - it looked like a lot of fun.
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

I wanted to have a normal childhood. Normal relationships.
Tommy Rettig

Marijuana. Boy, I thought that was just terrible. How could this great man do this to his life?
Tommy Rettig

So, in the last year, the whole cast sued for release from our contracts.
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