Hemp Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• Reefer makes darkies think they're as good as white men.

  Harry J. Anslinger

  Weed, Marijuana, Men

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• La cucaracha, la cucaracha, Ya no quieres caminar, Porque no tienes, Porque le falta, Marihuana que fumar.

  Pancho Villa

  Weed, Marijuana, Cannabis

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• 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.

  Weed, Marijuana, Jeans

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

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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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• The primary reason to outlaw marijuana is its effect on the degenerate races.

  Harry J. Anslinger

  Marijuana, Race, Degenerates

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

  Art Garfunkel

  Weed, Marijuana, Leaving

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• Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

  Albert Einstein (1949). “The World as I See it”, Citadel Press

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• There's been no top authority saying what marijuana 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

  Weed, Marijuana, Doe

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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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• 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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• I don't mind being an advocate for weed. It's not as bad as tobacco, alcohol or firearms, for that matter. There's no reason it shouldn't be legalized. You can make all kinds of stuff out of hemp. I think the cure for cancer's probably in cannabis-who knows?

  Method Man

  Weed, Cancer, Thinking

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• Marijuana is an addictive drug which produces in its users insanity, criminality, and death.

  Harry J. Anslinger

  Marijuana, Insanity, Drug

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• 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

  Weed, Time, 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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• Rag paper, containing hemp fiber, is the highest quality and longest lasting paper ever made. It can be torn when wet, but returns to its full strength when dry.

  Jack Herer

  Quality, Rags, Paper

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• How many murders, suicides, robberies, criminal assaults, holdups, burglaries and deeds of maniacal insanity it causes each year, especially among the young, can only be conjectured... No one knows, when he places a marijuana cigarette to his lips, whether he will become a joyous reveller in a musical heaven, a mad insensate, a calm philosopher, or a murderer...

  Harry J. Anslinger

  Suicide, Weed, Marijuana

  "Marijuana - Assassin of Youth". The American Magazine, Volume 24, p. 18, July 1937.

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• May 12-13: Sowed Hemp at Muddy hole by Swamp. August 7: Began to separate the Male from the Female at Do - rather too late.

  George Washington

  August, Males, Female

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• Congress should definitely consider decriminalizing possession of marijuana. We should concentrate on prosecuting the rapists and burglars who are a menace to society.

  Dan Quayle

  Weed, War, Marijuana

  "Legalizing Marijuana: Drug Policy Reform and Prohibition Politics". Book by Rudolph Joseph Gerber, 2004.

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• Fancy that thou deservest to be hangedthou wilt feel it happiness to be only shot: fancy that thou deservest to be hanged ina hair halter, it will be a luxury to die in hemp.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Luxury, Hair, Guilt

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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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• We all need something to help us unwind at the end of the day. You might have a glass of wine, or a joint, or a big delicious blob of heroin to silence your silly brainbox of its witterings but there has to be some form of punctuation, or life just seems utterly relentless.

  Russell Brand

  Weed, Silly, Wine

  Russell Brand (2009). “My Booky Wook: A Memoir of Sex, Drugs, and Stand-Up”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• 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

  Weed, Dog, Marijuana

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• I smoked pot in college and in the Army.

  Al Gore

  Weed, Army, Marijuana

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• Most of the designers are eco-friendly, even by default, through their use of up-cycled materials and organic fabrics, and by producing in small quantities. Ultimately, the design has to be great - no one will buy it if it looks like a hemp sack!

  Amber Valletta

  Design, Friendly, Looks

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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