Marijuana Quotes - Page 23

• Marijuana: a drug that kills … no one – and let's put it in a time frame – ever. Illegal.

  Bill Hicks

  Drug, Illegal

  "Salvation". Stand-up show, Live album, 2005.

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• 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

  Thinking, People, Evil

  Interview with PBS Frontline, www.pbs.org. 2000.

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• She wondered how people would remember her. She had not made enough to spread her wealth around like Carnegie, to erase any sins that had attached to her name, she had failed, she had not reached the golden bough. The liberals would cheer her death. They would light marijuana cigarettes and drive to their sushi restaurants and eat fresh food that had traveled eight thousand miles. They would spend all of supper complaining about people like her, and when they got home their houses would be cold and they'd press a button on a wall to get warm. The whole time complaining about big oil.

  Philipp Meyer

  Cheer, Wall, Home

  "The Son". Book by Philipp Meyer, 2013.

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• We don't smoke marijuana in Muskogee, we don't take trips on LSD. We don't burn our draft cards down on Main Street, we like living right and free.

  Merle Haggard

  Living Right, Alcohol, Drug

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• The whole LSD, STP, marijuana, heroin, hashish, prescription cough medicine crowd suffers from the "Watchtower" itch: you gotta be with us, man, or you're out, you're dead. This pitch is a continual and seeming MUST with those who use the stuff. It's no wonder they keep getting busted.

  Charles Bukowski

  Men, Medicine, Suffering

  Charles Bukowski (2013). “Tales of Ordinary Madness”, p.205, City Lights Books

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• I'm not fighting for the Marlboro-ization of marijuana.

  Ethan Nadelmann

  Fighting

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• Nobody tells the history of marijuana 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

  Opportunity, Media, Drug

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• I don't believe that laws against things that people do regularly, like safe and responsible use of marijuana, make any sense.

  Peter B. Lewis

  Believe, Law, People

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• Marijuana addiction is a serious problem

  Chris Christie

  Addiction, Serious, Problem

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• 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

  Law, California, People

  "The Candidates: Rep. Ron Paul". Live discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. October 12, 2007.

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• I took great pride in my performance on and off the field, and often questioned why our culture embraces alcohol while simultaneously stigmatizing those who choose to consume a less harmful alternative, marijuana…it is inconsistent, both legally and socially, for our laws to punish adults who make the ‘safer’ choice.

  Mark Stepnoski

  Pride, Law, Alcohol

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• 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

  Mushrooms, Addiction, Drug

  "Deposition: Testimony Concerning a Sickness". William S. Burroughs' introduction to his book "Naked Lunch" (pp. 199-201), 1960 edition.

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• Marijuana is a proven medicine.

  Tommy Chong

  Medicine, Proven

  "Cheech & Chong Light Up 'The Factor'". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. November 18, 2009.

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• Marijuana, for me in particular, releases my creative juices. It doesn't work well for performing, but for creating nothing works better.

  Steve "Lips" Kudlow

  Creative Juices, Creating, Release

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I think that marijuana should be legalized. I think the only reason it isn't legal is because politicians who smoked it when they were young men or young women just don't have the courage when they become politicians to legalize it.

  Richard Branson

  Men, Thinking, Politician

  "Living Fully and Doing Business Differently With Richard Branson". Interview with Arianna Huffington, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 25, 2014.

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• In the national debate about a serious issue, it is the expression of the minority's viewpoint that most demands the protection of the First Amendment. Whatever the better policy may be, a full and frank discussion of the costs and benefits of the attempt to prohibit the use of marijuana is far wiser than suppression of speech because it is unpopular.

  John Paul Stevens

  Expression, Issues, Freedom Of Speech

  Deborah Morse and the Juneau School Board, et al., Petitioners v. Joseph Frederick, 551 U.S. 393, 2007.

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• Despite the Internet 's origin in the late 1960s as a government sponsored means of communication between the Department of Defense, private industry, and academia, it has been at its best and generated the greatest economic, social, and technological benefits since it was 'liberated' by the hordes of 'geeks' who were originally hired to run it by employers who were not themselves conversant with computers, and couldn't tell when their employees were exchanging official traffic or trading dirty jokes and recipes for marijuana brownies.

  L. Neil Smith

  Running, Communication, Dirty

  "Keep Your Filthy Hands Off The Internet". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. June 20, 2010.

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

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Stories, Red, Dirt

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• Tax day was yesterday. And marijuana growers are complaining that they can't write off a single expense thanks to federal laws. Well, apparently someone tried to claim the Phish tour as his home office and that's not going to happen.

  Conan O'Brien

  Home, Writing, Law

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• 90% of the problem with marijuana is prohibition related, not use related.

  Gary Johnson

  Use, Politics, Problem

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• The historic transition from Novice to Proficient to Adept was said to be accomplished virtually overnight by the progression from marijuana to peyote to lysergic acid. Instant mysticism had arrived. Before the court of law, hippies demanded freedom for LSD the way early Christians demanded freedom for the Eucharist.

  William Everson

  Christian, Hippie, Law

  William Everson (1988). “The Excesses of God: Robinson Jeffers as a Religious Figure”, p.5, Stanford University Press

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• I am not by any stretch an enthusiast or fan of marijuana. I don't use it. I don't want any kids anywhere to use it; if I ever find one of my kids using it, they are in big trouble.

  Jared Huffman

  Kids, Fans, Use

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I suspect that someday in a world with legal marijuana for adults, you will probably have branding that occurs for different types of the product.

  Jared Huffman

  Adults, Different, World

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I think people can at least appreciate the sensibility behind the position I have. It is not a pro-marijuana position. It is a common-sense position.

  Jared Huffman

  Thinking, People, Appreciate

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I'm opposed to legalizing marijuana because it acts as a gateway drug.

  Enrique Pena Nieto

  Drug, Gateways, Legalizing Marijuana

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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