Marijuana famous quotes
05-25-2025
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I agree that ***** laws are overdue for an overhaul. I also favor the medical use of ***** -- if it's prescribed by a physician. I cannot understand why the federal government should interfere with the doctor-patient relationship, nor why it would ignore the will of a majority of voters who have legally approved such legislation.
-- Abigail Van Buren -
Two of my favorite things are sitting on my front porch smoking a pipe of sweet hemp, and playing my Hohner harmonica.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Less than the dust beneath thy chariot wheel, less than the weed that grows beside thy door.
-- Adela Florence Nicolson -
Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson -
I did it for the love of cash your honer, traffickin' cross the verrazano, coke dealin marijuana
-- Al Capone -
Basically what's happening is I'm pleading guilty to possessing and having plants and not guilty to the charges of supply.
-- Alan Cinis -
The only serious side-effect of #‎ ***** is that you might get arrested.
-- Alan Watts -
I, as a responsible adult human being, will never concede the power to anyone to regulate my choice of what I put into my body, or where I go with my mind. From the skin inwards is my jurisdiction, is it not? I choose what may or may not cross that border. Here I am the Customs Agent. I am the Coast guard. I am the sole legal and spiritual government of this territory, and only the laws I choose to enact within myself are applicable
-- Alexander Shulgin -
It is haram [religiously forbidden] to use narcotics in any way because it results in considerable adverse effects in terms of personal health and social cost. By the same token, it is haram to deal in narcotics in any way, i.e., carrying, transporting, storing, selling, buying, etc.
-- Ali Khamenei -
It doesn't matter if you are a Democrat or Republican, we are going to legalize ***** no matter what happens in ten years, because when 60% of the American public wants something, they're going to get it.
-- Allen St. Pierre -
It is not a medicine. You don't know what's in it. If there were compelling scientific and medical data supporting marijuana's medical benefits that would be one thing. But the data is not there.
-- Andrea Barthwell -
Marijuana legalization's income may help fund education, prevention and treatment programs for harder drugs. What's clear is that the four-decade-old U.S.-backed war on drugs is not working, and that it's producing tens of thousands of dead across the hemisphere, without significant gains in reducing consumption. Experimenting with new weapons to weaken the cartels may be better than doing nothing.
-- Andres Oppenheimer -
I did experiment with ***** when I was a youth.
-- Andrew Cuomo -
I think pot should be legal. I don’t smoke it, but I like the smell of it.
-- Andy Warhol -
We think of cannabis as a drug, in accordance with international opinions. This means that even consuming small amounts can lead to very severe dependence. With alcohol or cigarettes however, sensibly limited consumption does not bear the risk of immediate addictiveness as this is the case with cannabis according to our opinion. With alcohol there surely is an element of a tradition. However, enjoyed in moderation, as supplement to a meal for example, alcohol is not something that causes immediate dependence. Still, there is a great need for prevention and information in this matter.
-- Angela Merkel -
You know I love pot, and I love beer, but I am totally sober, just because it completely stopped working for me.
-- Anthony Kiedis -
It's not just the over $8 billion that we would be saving in law enforcement; it's also the over $8 billion that we would be making by taxing marijuana... We are filling our jails with nonviolent drug offenders - predominantly young, predominantly African American... It's a great beyond left and right issue. It has support across the political spectrum and also the support of the majority of the American people.
-- Arianna Huffington -
If John Lennon is deported, I'm leaving too...with my musicians..and my marijuana.
-- Art Garfunkel -
Sometimes I'm asked by kids why I condemn ***** when I haven't tried it. The greatest obstetricians in the world have never been pregnant.
-- Art Linkletter -
When I was a kid I inhaled frequently. That was the point.
-- Barack Obama -
I never understood that line. The point was to inhale. That was the point.
-- Barack Obama -
The War on Drugs has been an utter failure. We need to rethink and decriminalize our ***** laws.
-- Barack Obama -
Particularly marijuana, I think is a great hypocrisy. I think frankly it contributes to a good deal of the sense of unfairness you have among younger people who are told they shouldn't do this because it’s got all these negative effects, but then older people are engaging in all kinds of things that probably have a greater impact on people.
-- Barney Frank -
Let us not say that we will decide on a political basis at the national level that no State is competent to regulate the practice of medicine in that State if they decide to allow a doctor to prescribe marijuana, because that is what we are talking about.
-- Barney Frank -
I do not believe that the federal government should treat adults who choose to smoke ***** as criminals.
-- Barney Frank -
That's what I do... Some people smoke weed, some people smoke cigarettes, some people snort coke... I pop pills, I smoke and I drink syrup, that's my twist.
-- Beanie Sigel -
Neither do thou lust after that tawny weed tobacco.
-- Ben Jonson -
Marijuana? It's harmless really, unless you fashion it into a club and beat somebody over the head with it
-- Bill Bailey -
I haven't smoked ***** since I was at NYU,
-- Bill de Blasio -
As a physician I have sympathy for patients suffering from pain and other medical conditions. Although I understand many believe ***** is the most effective drug in combating their medical ailments, I would caution against this assumption due to the lack of consistent, repeatable scientific data available to prove marijuana's benefits. Based on current evidence, I believe that ***** is a dangerous drug and that there are less dangerous medicines offering the same relief from pain and other medical symptoms.
-- Bill Frist -
Why is ***** against the law? It grows naturally upon our planet. Doesn’t the idea of making nature against the law seem to you a bit . . . unnatural?
-- Bill Hicks -
They're talking about banning cigarette smoking now in any place that's used by ten or more people in a week, which, I guess, means that Madonna can't even smoke in bed.
-- Bill Maher -
Whenever the people are for gay marriage or medical ***** or assisted suicide, suddenly the 'will of the people' goes out the window.
-- Bill Maher -
So what if it's risky? It's the right thing to do. What we're talking about is 160 people in deep pain. It only affects them.
-- Bill Richardson -
Marijuana is like Coors beer. If you could buy the damn stuff at a Georgia filling station, youd decide you wouldnt want it.
-- Billy Carter -
I don't believe in angels, no. But I do have a wee parking angel. It's on my dashboard and you wind it up. The wings flap and it's supposed to give you a parking space. It's worked so far.
-- Billy Connolly -
I drink, you drink. Hell, if ***** was legal, I'd appear in a commercial for that too.
-- Billy Dee Williams -
There is no legitimate use whatsoever for marijuana. This is not medicine. This is bogus witchcraft. It has no place in medicine, no place in pain relief.
-- Bob Barr -
I like to take a puff or two before going on the air. I still get stage fright when I have to perform. A little grass gets rid of the problem.
-- Bob Denver -
When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.
-- Bob Marley -
If someone wants to do drugs ... as long as he or she isn't corrupting minors or driving under the influence or endangering others, shouldn't a person have that right?
-- Brad Pitt -
I was hiding out from the celebrity thing, I was smoking way too much dope, I was sitting on the couch, and just turning into a doughnut, and I really got irritated with myself.
-- Brad Pitt -
I was hiding out from the celebrity thing, I was smoking way too much [marijuana].
-- Brad Pitt -
I never use the word "drug" without defining it. I define it exactly the way the DEA defines it, "a chemical compound capable of reproduction in standardized dosages." I explain that ***** is a plant with many drugs in it, just like any other plant.
-- Carl E. Olson -
The illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly mad and dangerous world.
-- Carl Sagan -
Quoting, like smoking, is a dirty habit to which I am devoted.
-- Carolyn Heilbrun -
If I'm going to be totally honest, I don't think that smoking weed is that big a deal.
-- Chloe Madeley -
According to the Small Business Administration, more than 70 percent of all family businesses do not survive through the second generation, and 8 percent do not make it to a third.
-- Christopher Bond -
It is better to not even try it than to endure the ramifications of either quitting smoking or dying.
-- Christy Turlington -
I was never directly pressured by peers, but by surrounding myself with others who were experimenting with smoking provided a certain false comfort.
-- Christy Turlington -
The White House said today that Judge Clarence Thomas, President Bush's Supreme Court nominee, had smoked ***** while in college.
-- Clarence Thomas -
I wasn't driving down the wrong side of the street, smoking marijuana, waving my gun out the window.
-- Coolio -
The rain is giving much needed relief to California's crops. By that I mean 'marijuana.'
-- Craig Ferguson -
So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it's bad, it's really simple.
-- Damien Hirst -
Congress should definitely consider decriminalizing possession of marijuana... We should concentrate on prosecuting the rapists and burglars who are a menace to society.
-- Dan Quayle -
I used to smoke marijuana, but that was when I was in college, before it was a drug.
-- Dan Quayle -
I agree with my colleagues, even the one who just preceded me, that ***** is probably a dangerous drug, and I would not suggest that we do anything to encourage its use.
-- Dana Rohrabacher -
There are many drugs that have many serious side effects and that are harmful to people. Marijuana is no different than that.
-- Dana Rohrabacher -
I did everything but drink the bong water when I was young.
-- Dana Rohrabacher -
I don't know what's more embarrassing in this country, that Michael Phelps fell from the graces for smoking ***** or that you looked up to a swimmer in the first place?
-- Daniel Tosh -
If you grew up in the 60's or 70's, and didn't do drugs I don't trust you.
-- Danny Danko -
Casual drug users should be taken out and shot.
-- Daryl Gates -
I have smoked marijuana, but I no longer do. I went to art school in the 1960s so you can imagine what was going on. Yet my friends were the ones who said, "No, no, no, David, don't take those drugs." I was pretty lucky.
-- David Lynch -
Marijuana, for example, won't help one determine the correct aspect ratio...
-- David Mamet -
Through Nic's drug addiction, I have learned that parents can bear almost anything....I shock myself with my ability to rationalize and tolerate things once unthinkable. The rationalizations escalate....It's only marijuana. He gets high only on weekends. At least he's not using hard drugs....
-- David Sheff -
Our parents had to drive us to the gig, or even go in with us because of the liquor laws. The owners were really scared to death that we'd drink. We usually just went out somewhere and smoked weed. I don't smoke anymore, but back then we used to smoke quite a lot.
-- Dexter Romweber -
It (marijuana) will still be legal under federal law.
-- Dianne Feinstein -
The Americans take a product that literally grows on trees and turn it into a valuable commodity. Without them, cocaine and ***** would be like oranges, and instead of making billions smuggling it, I’d be making pennies doing stoop labor in some California field, picking it.
-- Don Winslow -
I'm not a ***** user, so I always feel kind of fraudulent. I applaud this, I do recreational drugs, but marijuana's never one of those. People think because I talk about drugs, that I smoke pot. But I don't.
-- Doug Stanhope -
I was going to go make a film in Greece. if they caught you with this much marijuana, they threw you in jail, no questions asked, and I was trying to stuff it in my deodorant bottles. I thought, what I am doing?
-- Dyan Cannon -
The new generation of Labour is different. Different attitudes, different ideas, different ways of doing politics.
-- Ed Miliband -
Marijuana may not be addictive, but growing it is.
-- Ed Rosenthal -
But the Dutch speak four languages and smoke marijuana.
-- Eddie Izzard -
So when he asked about getting high, I didn't think, I agreed. We smoked some good California green. Took three tries to put me in the place he said I should be.
-- Ellen Hopkins -
In the embrace's release I caught the scent again. Unmistakable. Marijuana. These homos were high as kites.
-- Emily M. Danforth -
My government will continue mounting a real fight against the trafficking of ***** and all other drugs.
-- Enrique Pena Nieto -
Marijuana gives rise to insanity -- not in its users but in the policies directed against it. A nation that sentences the possessor of a single joint to life imprisonment without parole but sets a murderer free after perhaps six years is in the grips of a deep psychosis.
-- Eric Schlosser -
I'm not fighting for the Marlboro-ization of marijuana.
-- Ethan Nadelmann -
Nobody tells the history of ***** and its prohibition like Russ Belville does. He has a special talent for presenting scholarship in a remarkably engaging way. That’s why I turned to Russ when I needed someone to present on the subject to the annual staff retreat of the Drug Policy Alliance. And it’s why I repeatedly recommend him for speaking and media opportunities. He’s good!
-- Ethan Nadelmann -
That is my best friend because it is a gift of the creator to Africans. It is a spirit. Marijuana has five fingers of creation...it enhances all your five senses.
-- Fela Kuti -
It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
-- Fletcher Knebel -
Marijuana is one of the safest, therapeutically active substances known to man.
-- Frances M. Young -
Estimates suggest that from 20 to 50 million Americans routinely, albeit illegally, smoke ***** without the benefit of direct medical supervision. Yet, despite this long history of use and the extraordinarily high numbers of social smokers, there are simply no credible reports to suggest that consuming ***** has caused a single death. By contrast, aspirin, a commonly used, over-the-counter medicine, causes hundreds of deaths each year.
-- Frances M. Young -
I'm a recreational pot-smoker. There has never been enough of a distinction between ***** and other drugs. It's a human rights issue, a censorship issue, and a choice issue.
-- Frances McDormand -
If one seeks relief from unbearable pressure, one is to eat hashish.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
This country would be a better place to live in if all the resources we currently put toward criminalizing ***** were instead spent by law enforcement on protection from real crime, as opposed to victimless crime.
-- Gary Johnson -
Too many Americans have lost faith in our approach to the war on drugs...
-- Gary Johnson -
So when people ask Galbraith, why is the change in ***** laws important to the people of this country, because it returns to the people the right to plant a seed in God's earth and consume the green natural plant that comes up out of it.
-- Gatewood Galbraith -
Danbury wasnt a prison, it was a crime school. I went in with a Bachelor of marijuana, came out with a Doctorate of cocaine.
-- George Jung -
I thought cocaine was a fantastic drug. A wonder drug, like everybody else. It gave you [an] energy burst. You could stay awake for days on end, and it was just marvelous and I didn't think it was evil at all. I put it almost in the same category as marijuana, only hell of a lot better. It was a tremendous energy boost. It gave the feeling, a high, but nobody knew, well maybe a small percentage of people knew. But eventually everybody knew how evil it really was.
-- George Jung -
I am fed up with a system which busts the pot smoker and lets the big dope racketeer go free.
-- George McGovern -
Make the most of the Indian Hemp Seed and sow it everywhere.
-- George Washington -
I don't know how it started but someone must have noticed I was always chewing tobacco or smoking a pipe.
-- Hank Sauer
