Marijuana Legalization Quotes

• The War on Drugs has been an utter failure. We need to rethink and decriminalize our marijuana laws.

  Barack Obama

  Weed, War, Marijuana

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• Marijuana is one of the safest, therapeutically active substances known to man.

  Frances M. Young

  Weed, Marijuana, Men

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

  Bob Marley

  Weed, Hippie, Drinking

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• Estimates suggest that from 20 to 50 million Americans routinely, albeit illegally, smoke marijuana without the benefit of direct medical supervision. Yet, despite this long history of use and the extraordinarily high numbers of social smokers, there are simply no credible reports to suggest that consuming marijuana has caused a single death. By contrast, aspirin, a commonly used, over-the-counter medicine, causes hundreds of deaths each year.

  Frances M. Young

  Weed, Marijuana, Medicine

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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, Thinking, Needs

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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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• 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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• "One of the best things about marijuana legalization: "I think the black market has been damaged. I think people are willing to pay taxes and to go through pretty rigorous regulation."

  John Hickenlooper

  Marijuana, Thinking, People

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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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• 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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• You bet I did and I enjoyed it.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Weed, Marijuana, Cannabis

  "Bloomberg Says He Regrets Marijuana Remarks". www.nytimes.com. April 10, 2002.

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• I wouldn't answer the marijuana questions. You know why? Because I don't want some little kid doing what I tried.

  George H. W. Bush

  Weed, Kids, Marijuana

  "In Secretly Taped Conversations, Glimpses of the Future President". www.nytimes.com. February 20, 2005.

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• Marijuana legalization's income may help fund education, prevention and treatment programs for harder drugs. What's clear is that the four-decade-old U.S.-backed war on drugs is not working, and that it's producing tens of thousands of dead across the hemisphere, without significant gains in reducing consumption. Experimenting with new weapons to weaken the cartels may be better than doing nothing.

  Andres Oppenheimer

  War, Marijuana, Drug

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• A house panel in Texas has approved full marijuana legalization for the state. Yeah, meaning Texas could go from having dude ranches to 'Dude, ranches.'

  Jimmy Fallon

  Marijuana, Texas, House

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• I read that as marijuana legalization becomes more popular, it could affect the jobs of drug-sniffing dogs. Or as those dogs put it, 'Thanks, Bo Obama.'

  Jimmy Fallon

  Dog, Jobs, Marijuana

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• I think it's the snack food industry that's really pushing the marijuana legalization issue in California.

  John Pappas

  Marijuana, Thinking, Issues

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