Marijuana Quotes - Page 17

• Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Men, Young Generation, Generations

  Speech at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 08, 1952.

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• I know you're supposed to tell kids not to do drugs, but, kids, do it! Do weed! Don't do the other stuff, but weed is good

  Kevin Smith

  Weed, Kids, Drug

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• This generation has given up on growth. They're just hoping for survival.

  Penelope Spheeris

  Inspirational, Teenage, Growth

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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

  Thinking, Needs, Examination

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• I think the 'Just say no' mentality is so crazed. I saw a thing in a women's magazine the other day. 'He smokes cannabis, what am I to do? He laughs it off when I try to tell him, he says it's not really harmful...' Of course you're half hoping the advice will be, 'Well, you know it's not that harmful; if you love him, if you talk to him about it, tell him maybe he should keep it in the garden shed or something,' you know, a reasonable point of view. But of course it was, 'No, no, all drugs are bad. Librium's good, Valium's good. But cannabis, ooooh!' I hate that unreasoned attitude.

  Paul McCartney

  Weed, Attitude, Hate

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• I was never directly pressured by peers, but by surrounding myself with others who were experimenting with smoking provided a certain false comfort.

  Christy Turlington

  Smoking, Comfort, Peers

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• So what if it's risky? It's the right thing to do. What we're talking about is 160 people in deep pain. It only affects them.

  Bill Richardson

  Pain, Talking, People

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• I think the reason kids get into drugs and smoking is they don't have anything to do.

  Richard Thompson

  Kids, Thinking, Smoking

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• The Americans take a product that literally grows on trees and turn it into a valuable commodity. Without them, cocaine and marijuana would be like oranges, and instead of making billions smuggling it, I’d be making pennies doing stoop labor in some California field, picking it.

  Don Winslow

  California, Orange, Tree

  "The Power of the Dog". Book by Don Winslow, 2005.

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• There is no logical basis for the prohibition of marijuana. $7.7 billion is a lot of money, but that is one of the lesser evils. Our failure to successfully enforce these laws is responsible for the deaths of thousands of people in Colombia. I haven't even included the harm to young people. It's absolutely disgraceful to think of picking up a 22-year-old for smoking pot. More disgraceful is the denial of marijuana for medical purposes.

  Milton Friedman

  Thinking, Years, Law

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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

  India, Sowing, May

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

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• People always come up to me and say that my smoking is bothering them....well it's killing me!

  Wendy Liebman

  Bothering You, People, Addiction

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• I'm more proud of quitting smoking than of anything else I've done in my life, including winning an Oscar.

  Christine Lahti

  Winning, Smoking, Done

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

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• You're always better off if you quit smoking; it's never too late.

  Loni Anderson

  Smoking, Too Late, Quitting

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• There are no crowds out there demanding to see smoking scenes in movies.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Smoking, Crowds, Scene

  "Joe Eszterhas talks Hollywood smoke screen". Interview with Paula Zahn, www.cnn.com. August 12, 2002.

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• Seventy-five percent of women who smoke would like to quit, and yet only two to three percent quit every year... It's significant because we can help women quit smoking.

  David Satcher

  Years, Two, Smoking

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• Who most benefits from keeping marijuana illegal? The greatest beneficiaries are the major criminal organizations in Mexico and elsewhere that earn billions of dollars annually from this illicit trade - and who would rapidly lose their competitive advantage if marijuana were a legal commodity.

  George Soros

  Organization, Mexico, Benefits

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• I smoked this joint and then it hit me. I thought, what you gotta do is play your own simply blues.

  Iggy Pop

  Weed, Play, Joints

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• Once both gay marriage and marijuana are finally legal, those of you against them are not invited to the really fun parties I'm gonna throw.

  Zach Braff

  Fun, Party, Gay

  Twitter post from May 7, 2012

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• What makes a book great, a so-called classic, it its quality of always being modern, of its author, though he be long dead, continuing to speak to each new generation.

  Lawrence Clark Powell

  Book, Long, Quality

  Lawrence Clark Powell (1968). “Bookman's Progress: The Selected Writings of Lawrence Clark Powell”

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• Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine.

  George D. Prentice

  Men, Cigarette Smoke, Smoking

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• Each child is poisoned by the society through teaching him ambition. Ambition is a poison far more dangerous than any alcohol can ever be, far more dangerous than marijuana or LSD, because ambition destroys your whole life. It keeps you moving in a false direction. It keeps you imagining, desiring, dreaming, it keeps you wasting your life. Ambition means a subtle creation of the ego, and once the ego is created you are in the grip of darkness. And the whole social structure depends on ambition.

  Rajneesh

  Dream, Children, Moving

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• Too many Americans have lost faith in our approach to the war on drugs.

  Gary Johnson

  War, Drug, Lost

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• I think it's about time we legalize marijuana... We either put people who are smoking marijuana behind bars or we legalize it, but this little game we are playing in the middle is not helping us, it is not helping Mexico and it is causing massive violence on our southern border... Fifty percent of the money going to these cartels is coming just from marijuana coming across our border.

  Glenn Beck

  Thinking, Games, People

  "Glenn Beck Calls for the Repeal of Federal Drug Prohibition" by Jacob Sullum, reason.com. May 21, 2015.

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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, Drug, Four

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