Funny Marijuana Quotes - Page 2

• It is beyond my comprehension that any humane person would withhold such a beneficial substance from people in such great need simply because others use it for different purposes.

  Steven Gould

  Weed, Marijuana, People

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• 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

  Weed, Atheist, Marijuana

  "Oliver Sacks, Exploring How Hallucinations Happen". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 6, 2012.

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

  John Adams

  Weed, Marijuana, World

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

  Bob Marley

  Weed, Hippie, Drinking

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• I have always loved marijuana. It has been a source of joy and comfort to me for many years. And I still think of it as a basic staple of life, along with beer and ice and grapefruits - and millions of Americans agree with me.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Weed, Beer, Thinking

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

  Barack Obama

  Weed, Kids, Marijuana

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

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

  Melissa Etheridge

  Weed, Marijuana, Six

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

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• 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

  Weed, Marijuana, Growth

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• 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

  Weed, Marijuana, Dangerous World

  "Mr. X". Essay by Carl Sagan, hermiene.net. 1969.

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

  Bob Marley

  Weed, Marijuana, Addiction

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• The biggest killer on the planet is stress and I still think the best medicine is and always has been cannabis.

  Willie Nelson

  Weed, War, Stress

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

  Andy Warhol

  Weed, Marijuana, Thinking

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• I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana 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

  Weed, Flower, Marijuana

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• I experimented with marijuana a time or two.

  William J. Clinton

  Weed, Marijuana, Two

  Quoted in Wash. Post, 30 Mar. 1992

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• Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself

  Jimmy Carter

  Weed, Marijuana, Drug Use

  Jimmy Carter (2010). “White House Diary”, p.74, Macmillan

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• 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.

  Weed, Marijuana, People

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

  Jay Leno

  Funny, Weed, Marijuana

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• 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 marijuana 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

  Weed, Marijuana, Law

  U.S. President in a message to the U.S. Congress, 1977.

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• 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

  Weed, Marijuana, Dope

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  If you substitute marijuana for tobacco and alcohol, you'll add eight to 24 years to your life.

  Jack Herer

  Weed, Marijuana, Years

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• 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

  Weed, Pursuit Of Happiness, Marijuana

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• Don't do drugs because if you do drugs you'll go to prison, and drugs are really expensive in prison.

  John Hardwick

  Weed, Marijuana, Addiction

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• I think that marijuana should not only be legal, I think it should be a cottage industry. It would be wonderful for the state of Maine. There's some pretty good homegrown dope. I'm sure it would be even better if you could grow it with fertilizers and have greenhouses.

  Stephen King

  Weed, Marijuana, Dope

  Stephen King, Tim Underwood, Chuck Miller (1988). “Bare bones: conversations on terror with Stephen King”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• The first time I smoked was at home with my mother and stepfather; they were like, If you are going to do this, we'd rather you did this with us.

  Matt Damon

  Mother, Weed, Home

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• 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

  Weed, War, Marijuana

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

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