Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rob Kampia

Public opinion has been evolving nationwide when it comes to marijuana policy, and Californians have always been ahead of the curve.

Richard P. Feynman

Ordinarily it would take me about fifteen minutes to get a hallucination going," wrote Feynman, "but on a few occasions, when I smoked some marijuana beforehand, it came very quickly.

Timothy Leary

They've outlawed the number one vegetable on the planet.

Sal Albanese

By regulating marijuana, we can put black market drug dealers out of business and eliminate the rebellious allure that attracts young people.

Ron Paul

I never would force the Justice Department to go to California and arrest people getting medical marijuana, when that's the law there.

Ron Paul

I would absolutely never use the federal government to enforce the law of using marijuana

Ronald Reagan

If adults want to take such chances (with marijuana) that is their business

Ronald Reagan

Permanent brain damage is one of the inevitable results of the use of marijuana.

Pope Francis

The scourge of drug trafficking, that favors violence and sows the seeds of suffering and death, requires of society as a whole an act of courage.

Stephen Colbert

Marijuana is a gateway drug that can lead to awful things, like Phish getting back together.

Truman Capote

Rusty thinks I should smoke marijuana, and I did for a while, but it only makes me giggle.

Rick James

I love marijuana - Mary Jane - and you can print that! I smoke it every day and it's the greatest thing since ice cream and I'm not afraid to say it.

Rick Steves

A society has to make a choice: tolerate alternative lifestyles or build more prisons.

Joycelyn Elders

Marijuana is beneficial to many patients

Owen Chamberlain

Each generation of scientists stands upon the shoulders of those who have gone before.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

Now it is one thing to say I say it that people shouldn't consume psychoactive drugs. It is entirely something else to condone marijuana laws, the application of which resulted, in 1995, in the arrest of 588,963 Americans. Why are we so afraid to inform ourselves on the question?

Ronald Reagan

Marijuana is probably the most dangerous drug in America today.

Ziggy Marley

I think it's wrong the way they criminalize herb. There are many more uses than just smoking. Beneficial to mankind.

Sanjay Gupta

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

Sanjay Gupta

[Marijuana] doesn't have a high potential for abuse, and there are very legitimate medical applications. In fact, sometimes marijuana 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.

William S. Burroughs

I awoke from The Sickness at the age of forty-five, calm and sane, and in reasonably good health except for a weakened liver and the look of borrowed flesh common to all who survive The Sickness... When I speak of drug addiction I do not refer to keif, marijuana or any preparation of hashish, mescaline, Banisteriopsis caapi, LSD6, Sacred Mushrooms or any other drugs of the hallucinogen group... There is no evidence that the use of any hallucinogen results in physical dependence.

William S. Burroughs

For instance, they [The Federal Narcotics Bureau ] give out that marijuana is a harmful and habit-forming drug, and it simply isn't. They claim that you can get addicted to opiates with one shot, and you can't. They over-estimate the physical bad effects, and so forth.

William J. Clinton

I think that most small amounts of marijuana have been decriminalized in some places, and should be. We really need a re-examination of our entire policy on imprisonment...Our imprisonment policies are counterproductive.

William J. Clinton

Marijuana is ten times more dangerous than twenty years ago.

William J. Clinton

I tried marijuana once or twice in England, but didn't like it. I didn't inhale.

Roseanne Barr

Legalize hemp and allow women to grow it and make food, clothing and housing for pennies from it and legalize marijuana too. Let women integrate their divided consciousness with a natural herb instead of doctors' pills that kill the liver.

Rod Laver

I often surprise myself. You can't plan some shots that go in, not unless you're on marijuana, and the only grass I'm partial to is Wimbledon's.

Willie Nelson

More and more people are finding out the benefits of it - hemp and marijuana. The more they delve into it and research it, the more they realize, Hey wait a minute, we should give this another look.

Willie Nelson

Vaporizers are good for your lungs. Cigarette smoke will kill you. I never heard of anybody dying from marijuana smoke. Vaporizers I think are smarter.

Willie Nelson

There's a lot of money in selling marijuana. If you can do it legally, that's good. Why should all the criminals make the money? This is what people are thinking. If it's happening, if it's going to be legal, let's tax it and regulate it, like we do with everything else and make some money off this. I think that's one reason why people are talking this a little more seriously.

Robert Mitchum

The only effect that I ever noticed from smoking marijuana was a sort of mild sedative, a release of tension when I was overworking. It never made me boisterous of quarrelsome. If anything, it calmed me and reduced my activity.

Robert Anton Wilson

[Red Dirt Marijuana] contains most of the great short stories in English that are not by Mr. Hemingway or Mr. O'Hara.

Richard M. Nixon

Our youth can not understand why society chooses to criminalize a behavior with so little visible ill effect or adverse social impact... These young people have jumped the fence and found no cliff. And the disrespect for the possession laws fosters a disrespect for laws and the system in general... On top of this is the distinct impression among the youth that some police may use the marihuana laws to arrest people they don't like for other reasons, whether it be their politics, their hair style or their ethnic background.