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- ↑ attribution to Archived September 27, 2007, at the Wayback Machine "The Next Whole Earth Catalog", (1980), p 331. Derived from the Gilbert Shelton quote, "Dope will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no dope."
- ↑ "New Village Press". www.newvillagepress.net. Archived from the original on 2017-07-31. Retrieved 2017-07-31.
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