Quotes and Sayings About Marijuana
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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
