Hemp Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• In any civilized society, it is every citizen's responsibility to obey just laws. But at the same time, it is every citizen's responsibility to disobey unjust laws.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  War, Responsibility, Marijuana

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• Why is marijuana against the law? It grows naturally upon our planet. Doesn’t the idea of making nature against the law seem to you a bit . . . unnatural?

  Bill Hicks

  Funny, Weed, Humor

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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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• LINEN, n. "A kind of cloth the making of which, when made of hemp, entails a great waste of hemp."

  Ambrose Bierce

  Kindness, Waste, Made

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.72, Courier Corporation

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• What was done with the seed saved from the India Hemp last summer? It ought, all of it, to have been sewn again; that not only a stock of seed sufficient for my own purposes might have been raised, but to have disseminated the seed to others; as it is more valuable than the common Hemp.

  George Washington

  Summer, Marijuana, India

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

  Bob Marley

  Weed, Marijuana, Addiction

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• Scientists in Australia are working on making biodegradable car parts out of hemp. This might get confusing. When someone says, roll up the window, they might mean, roll up the window!

  Jay Leno

  Mean, Australia, Car

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• Of course I know how to roll a joint.

  Martha Stewart

  Weed, Marijuana, Bud

  "Scientists figure out how much pot is in a joint", www.foxnews.com. July 19, 2016.

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• 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

  Funny, Weed, Marijuana

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• Federal and state laws (should) be changed to no longer make it a crime to possess marijuana for private use.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Funny, Weed, Marijuana

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• 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.

  Roseanne Barr

  Women, Marijuana, Medicine

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• Marijuana is quite possibly the finest of intoxicants. It has been scientifically proven, for decades, to be much less harmful to the body than alcohol when used on a regular basis.

  Nick Offerman

  Weed, Marijuana, Alcohol

  Nick Offerman (2013). “Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Fundamentals for Delicious Living”, p.94, Penguin

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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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• I am very glad to hear that the Gardener has saved so much of the St foin seed, & that of the India Hemp. Make the most you can of both, by sowing them again in drills... Let the ground be well prepared, and the Seed (St foin) be sown in April. The Hemp may be sown any where.

  George Washington

  Marijuana, India, Sowing

  George Washington's Letter to William Pearce, founders.archives.gov. February 24, 1794.

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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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• Industrial hemp is a very useful plant. I challenged the attorney general to get rid of the criminal stigma associated with hemp so we can look at it in terms of how it might be useful.

  Jesse Ventura

  Criminals, Looks, Might

  Jesse Ventura (2000). “I Ain't Got Time to Bleed: Reworking the Body Politic from the Bottom Up”, p.35, Villard

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• 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

  Funny, Weed, Morning

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

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• 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

  Country, Weed, War

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.6, Broadway Books

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• You smoke a joint and you're likely to kill your brother.

  Harry J. Anslinger

  Brother, Marijuana, Joints

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• A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Weed, Blow, Marijuana

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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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• Marijuana was made illegal because of William Randolph Hearst, the big newspaper guy. He owned thousands of acres of timberland and he didn't want hemp to be used for paper, he wanted to force everyone to buy his trees. And that's why he was the one that spearheaded making it illegal in Washington. Always follow the money, it's done for money purposes.

  Jesse Ventura

  Marijuana, Guy, Tree

  Source: thecelebritycafe.com

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• There are 100,000 total marijuana smokers in the US, and most are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz and swing, result from marijuana usage. This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers and any others.

  Harry J. Anslinger

  Weed, Women, Marijuana

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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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