Medical Marijuana Quotes:

I am not backing down on medical marijuana; I am doubling down.

- Sanjay Gupta

source: "Gupta: 'I am doubling down' on medical marijuana". edition.cnn.com. March 6, 2014.

topic: Marijuana, Medical, Medical Marijuana, Backing Down

Cannabis is remarkably safe. Although not harmless, it is surely less toxic than most of the conventional medicines it could replace if it were legally available. Despite its use by millions of people over thousands of years, cannabis has never caused an overdose death.

- Lester Grinspoon

topic: Marijuana, Medicine, Years, Medical Marijuana

Marijuana is one of the safest, therapeutically active substances known to man.

- Frances M. Young

topic: Marijuana, Men, Substance, Marijuana Legalization, Marijuana Prohibition

Instead of taking five or six of the prescriptions, I decided to go a natural route and smoke marijuana.

- Melissa Etheridge

source: "Melissa Etheridge's anthem of hope". "Dateline" with Stone Phillips, www.nbcnews.com. October 16, 2005.

topic: Marijuana, Six, Natural, Medical Marijuana, Cannabis

The evidence is overwhelming that ***** can relieve certain types of pain, nausea, vomiting and other symptoms caused by such illnesses as multiple sclerosis, cancer and AIDS - or by the harsh drugs sometimes used to treat them. And it can do so with remarkable safety. Indeed, ***** is less toxic than many of the drugs that physicians prescribe every day.

- Joycelyn Elders

topic: Pain, Cancer, Marijuana, Multiple Sclerosis, Medical Marijuana

Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.

- Bob Marley

topic: Hippie, Drinking, Healing, Jamaican Music, Alcoholism

[Marijuana] doesn't have a high potential for abuse, and there are very legitimate medical applications. In fact, sometimes ***** is the only thing that works... [I]t is irresponsible not to provide the best care we can as a medical community, care that could involve marijuana. We have been terribly and systematically misled for nearly 70 years in the United States, and I apologize for my own role in that.

- Sanjay Gupta

topic: Marijuana, Years, Community, Medical Marijuana

Why is marijuana against the law? It grows naturally on our planet, serves a thousand different functions, all of them positive. To make marijuana against the law is like saying that God made a mistake.

- Bill Hicks

source: "Chicago '91". Comedy album by Bill Hicks, 1991.

topic: Mistake, Marijuana, Law, Medical Marijuana, Cannabis

Hemp is of first necessity to the wealth & protection of the country.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Country, Marijuana, Firsts, Medical Marijuana, Cannabis

As a physician, I recommend nutritious hemp seeds and oil to anyone interested in maintaining a healthy diet. Everyone will benefit when American farmers can grow this amazing crop once again.

- Andrew Weil

topic: Marijuana, Oil, Healthy, Medical Marijuana, Hemp

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

topic: Weed, Marijuana, Mad, Stoners, Medical Marijuana

I think people need to be educated to the fact that ***** is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong?

- Willie Nelson

topic: Flower, Marijuana, Thinking, Medical Marijuana, Smoke Weed

Marijuana is the finest anti-nausea medication known to science, and our leaders have lied about this consistently. [Arresting people for] medical marijuana is the most hideous example of government interference in the private lives of individuals. It's an outrage within an outrage within an outrage.

- Peter McWilliams

topic: Marijuana, Government, People, Medical Marijuana, Arresting

Why use up the forests which were centuries in the making and the mines which required ages to lay down, if we can get the equivalent of forest and mineral products in the annual growth of the hemp fields?

- Henry Ford

topic: Marijuana, Growth, Age, Stoners, Medical Marijuana

We have been terribly and systematically misled for nearly 70 years in the United States.

- Sanjay Gupta

source: "Why I changed my mind on weed" By Dr. Sanjay Gupta, www.cnn.com. August 8, 2013.

topic: Years, United States, Misled, Medical Marijuana, Cannabis

I'd like to see the government back a programme of research into the medical properties of cannabis and I do not object to its responsible use as a recreational relaxant.

- Richard Branson

topic: Marijuana, Government, Use, Medical Marijuana, Cannabis

They legalized alcohol, they legalized tobacco. What is it gonna hurt to legalize this medicinal, medical ***** that's used for purposes of cataracts?

- Snoop Dogg

topic: Weed, Hurt, Marijuana, Medical Marijuana, Smoking Weed

It really puzzles me to see marijuana connected with narcotics dope and all of that stuff. It is a thousand times better than whiskey. It is an assistant and a friend.

- Louis Armstrong

topic: Weed, Marijuana, Dope, Stoners, Medical Marijuana

When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.

- Bob Marley

topic: Marijuana, Addiction, Herbs, Jamaican Music, Stoners

..Because when medical marijuana is fully accepted for what it is, we will see a phenomenon that makes Viagra's phenomenon seem limp.

- Peter McWilliams

topic: Marijuana, Viagra, Medical, Medical Marijuana

I enjoy smoking cannabis and see no harm in it

- Jennifer Aniston

topic: Marijuana, Smoking, Cannabis, Medical Marijuana, Cool Marijuana

I don't think [pot] is more dangerous than alcohol.

- Barack Obama

source: "Going the Distance" by David Remnick, www.newyorker.com. January 27, 2014.

topic: Weed, Marijuana, Thinking, Medical Marijuana, Funny Weed

We shall, by and by, want a world of hemp more for our own consumption.

- John Adams

topic: Weed, Marijuana, World, Medical Marijuana, Cannabis

If the words 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn't worth the hemp it was written on.

- Terence McKenna

topic: Pursuit Of Happiness, Marijuana, Mind Blowing, Stoners, Life Liberty And The Pursuit Of Happiness

When I was a kid, I inhaled. Frequently. That was the point.

- Barack Obama

source: "Obama's Drug Use Debated". www.cbsnews.com. February 12, 2008.

topic: Weed, Kids, Marijuana, Marijuana Legalization, Stoners

It would be wryly interesting if in human history the cultivation of marijuana led generally to the invention of agriculture, and thereby to civilization.

- Carl Sagan

source: Carl Sagan (2012). “Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence”, p.201, Ballantine Books

topic: Medical Marijuana, Cannabis, Drug Culture

When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn’t like it, and I didn’t inhale, and I never tried again.

- William J. Clinton

topic: Weed, Time, Marijuana, Marijuana Legalization, Inhale

Researches tested a new form of medical marijuana that treats pain but doesn't get the user high, prompting patients who need medical marijuana to declare, 'Thank you?'

- Jimmy Fallon

topic: Thank You, Pain, Marijuana, Medical Marijuana

I was fascinated that one could have such perceptual changes, and also that they went with a certain feeling of significance, an almost numinous feeling. I'm strongly atheist by disposition, but nonetheless when this happened, I couldn't help thinking, 'That must be what the hand of God is like.'

- Oliver Sacks

topic: Atheist, Marijuana, Thinking, Medical Marijuana, Numinous

The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this country is closely connected with this.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Country, Government, Law, Marijuana Prohibition, Limiting Freedom

Forty million Americans smoked marijuana; the only ones who didn’t like it were Judge Ginsberg, Clarence Thomas and Bill Clinton.

- Jay Leno

topic: Funny, Weed, Marijuana, Stoners, Medical Marijuana

Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.

- William F. Buckley, Jr.

topic: Weed, Marijuana, People, Marijuana Prohibition, Medical Marijuana

The amount of money and of legal energy being given to prosecute hundreds of thousands of Americans who are caught with a few ounces of marijuana makes no sense.

- William F. Buckley, Jr.

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Weed, Marijuana, Jeans, Marijuana Prohibition, Medical Marijuana

I used to smoke marijuana. But I'll tell you something: I would only smoke it in the late evening. Oh, occasionally the early evening, but usually the late evening - or the mid-evening. Just the early evening, midevening and late evening. Occasionally, early afternoon, early mid-afternoon, or perhaps the late-midafternoon. Oh, sometimes the early-mid-late-early morning. . . But never at dusk!

- Steve Martin

source: "Steve Martin: A Wild and Crazy Guy", 1978.

topic: Funny, Weed, Morning, Late Afternoon, Stoners

I now have absolute proof that smoking even one marijuana cigarette is equal in brain damage to being on Bikini Island during an H-bomb blast

- Ronald Reagan

topic: Funny, Weed, Marijuana, Smokers, Medical Marijuana

One's condition on marijuana is always existential. One can feel the importance of each moment and how it is changing one. One feels one's being, one becomes aware of the enormous apparatus of nothingness - the hum of a hi-fi set, the emptiness of a pointless interruption, one becomes aware of the war between each of us, how the nothingness in each of us seeks to attack the being of others, how our being in turn is attacked by the nothingness in others.

- Norman Mailer

source: Interview in "Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Third Series" edited by George Plimpton, 1967.

topic: Weed, War, Marijuana, Medical Marijuana, Smoking Weed

Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself; and where they are, they should be changed. Nowhere is this more clear than in the laws against possession of ***** in private for personal use... Therefore, I support legislation amending Federal law to eliminate all Federal criminal penalties for the possession of up to one ounce [28g] of marijuana.

- Jimmy Carter

topic: Marijuana, Law, Support, Marijuana Legalization, Marijuana Prohibition

When a private enterprise fails, it is closed down; when a government enterprise fails, it is expanded. Isn't that exactly what's been happening with drugs?

- Milton Friedman

topic: Marijuana, Government, Drug, Medical Marijuana, Cannabis

Whenever the people are for gay marriage or medical ***** or assisted suicide, suddenly the 'will of the people' goes out the window.

- Bill Maher

topic: Suicide, Gay, Marijuana, Medical Marijuana, Cannabis

I think that if the political and social movement groups and organizations that operate in this country today had the same kind of energetic commitment that the medical ***** people have, many things could change in this country.

- John Trudell

topic: Country, Commitment, Marijuana, Medical Marijuana

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

topic: Marijuana, Data, Medicine, Medical Marijuana

I talked to Snoop Doggy Dog today. Well I'm not sure if you could really call it talked because I could hardly understand what he was saying. But i think he was trying to communicate was that he wanted to work with me in some sort of capacity and something involving marijuana.

- Marilyn Manson

topic: Dog, Marijuana, Thinking, Involving, Medical Marijuana

There's been no top authority saying what ***** does to you. I really don't know that much about it. I tried it once but it didn't do anything to me.

- John Wayne

topic: Marijuana, Doe, Authority, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

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

topic: Pain, Believe, Marijuana, Dangerous Drugs, Medical Marijuana

If John Lennon is deported, I'm leaving too...with my musicians..and my marijuana.

- Art Garfunkel

topic: Marijuana, Leaving, Musician, Medical Marijuana, Smoking Weed

I think pot should be legal. I don’t smoke it, but I like the smell of it.

- Andy Warhol

topic: Medical Marijuana, Smoke Weed, Cool Marijuana, Funny Marijuana, Funny Weed

The Illinois Senate passed a bill on Wednesday to legalize medical marijuana. The bill was passed after the state senator said, 'Come on, dude, pass it. Come on.'

- Jimmy Fallon

topic: Marijuana, Illinois, Bills, Medical Marijuana