Marijuana Quotes - Page 18

• Some of the anxiety has been laid to rest. We don't see a spike in adult use. We don't think we see a spike in youth consumption although there are some things that are disconcerting.

  John Hickenlooper

  Thinking, Anxiety, Adults

  "Colorado's Governor on Marijuana Legalization" by Conor Friedersdorf, www.theatlantic.com. July 1, 2014.

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• The main point in our report was to recommend decriminalization...because of the way laws are applied, which have not worked. We have applied them for decades and it's got the prisons filled with lots of young people who sometimes come out destroyed for having half an ounce... We should approach it through education and health issues rather than a brutal reaction... There is need for change in policy, but it has to start with debate and discussion... I think the whole approach has to be reviewed.

  Kofi Annan

  Thinking, Law, Issues

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• The federal war on drugs is a total failure... The federal government's going in there and overriding state laws... Why don't we handle the drugs like we handle alcohol? ... I fear the drug war because it undermines our civil liberties. It magnifies our problems on the borders. We've spent over the last 40 years a trillion dollars on this war and - believe me - the kids can still get the drugs. It just hasn't worked.

  Ron Paul

  War, Believe, Kids

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• It's not just the over $8 billion that we would be saving in law enforcement; it's also the over $8 billion that we would be making by taxing marijuana... We are filling our jails with nonviolent drug offenders - predominantly young, predominantly African American... It's a great beyond left and right issue. It has support across the political spectrum and also the support of the majority of the American people.

  Arianna Huffington

  Law, Jail, Issues

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• New Rule: If an Evangelical tries to use Halloween to pimp Jesus to kids, they get to egg his house. On Halloween, the president of the American Family Association urged his flock to hand out a Christian-based comic book instead of candy. Excuse me, Halloween isn't a time to push your beliefs. You don't see me handing out pot to kids...Okay, well not the little kids.

  Bill Maher

  Christian, Jesus, Halloween

  Bill Maher (2011). “The New New Rules: A Funny Look at How Everybody but Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass”, p.95, Penguin

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• Regulating and taxing marijuana would simultaneously save taxpayers billions of dollars in enforcement and incarceration costs, while providing many billions of dollars in revenue annually.

  George Soros

  Dollars, Enforcement, Cost

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• Marijuana you can give up, I've given it up for fifteen years now and it never occurs to me to smoke it anymore.

  Larry Hagman

  Giving Up, Years, Fifteen

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• Jesus was a pothead- long hair, beard, sandals, carpenter- do the math it all adds up. Living with twelve guys with no visible means of support.

  Ralphie May

  Jesus, Mean, Math

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• The anti-marijuana campaign is a cancerous tissue of lies, undermining law enforcement, aggravating the drug problem, depriving the sick of needed help and suckering well-intentioned conservatives and countless frightened parents.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Lying, Law, Sick

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• All political movements are basically anti-creative - since a political movement is a form of war. "There's no place for impractical dreamers around here," that's what they always say. "Your writing activities will be directed, kindly stop horsing around." "As for the smoking of marijuana, it is the exploitation for the workers." Both favor alcohol and are against pot.

  William S. Burroughs

  War, Writing, Smoking

  William S. Burroughs, Allen Hibbard (1999). “Conversations with William S. Burroughs”, p.4, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I was going to go make a film in Greece. If they caught you with this much marijuana, they threw you in jail, no questions asked, and I was trying to stuff it in my deodorant bottles. I thought, what I am doing?

  Dyan Cannon

  Jail, Trying, Deodorant

  "Dyan Cannon Discusses Her Faith". "Larry King Live", transcripts.cnn.com. April 23, 2001.

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• I tried marijuana once or twice in England, but didn't like it. I didn't inhale.

  William J. Clinton

  England, Inhale

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• "One of the governor's concerns: "This high-THC marijuana, what can it do to a brain that is still developing?"

  John Hickenlooper

  Brain, Concern, Stills

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• So when people ask Galbraith, why is the change in marijuana laws important to the people of this country, because it returns to the people the right to plant a seed in God's earth and consume the green natural plant that comes up out of it.

  Gatewood Galbraith

  Country, Law, People

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• I work very hard on the writing, writing and rewriting and trying to weed out the lumber.

  David McCullough

  Weed, Writing, Trying

  Interview with Bruce Cole, www.neh.gov.

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• Colored students at the University of Minnesota partying with (white) female students, smoking [marijuana] and getting their sympathy with stories of racial persecution. Result: pregnancy.

  Harry J. Anslinger

  Party, Pregnancy, White

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• I’m sure a lot of you have tripped out on alcohol. It’s a lot safer to do it on marijuana

  Mike Gravel

  Alcohol

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• Why do I do it? Because I enjoy its effects. You know, I - why does anybody use any mind-altering substance, you know, because they like the way it makes them feel.

  Mark Stepnoski

  Funny Weed, Mind, Doe

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• In our culture, the Native Americans, when two strangers come together. You know what we do in our culture? We smoke the peace pipe.

  Tatanka

  Native American, Two, Funny Weed

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• Really? My people do the same thing.

  Rob Van Dam

  People

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• Oh yeah, the preacher's kid has to be the baddest one. If everyone is smoking weed, we've got to smoke crack. If you're throwing rocks, we've got to throw bigger rocks

  Nick Cannon

  Weed, Kids, Rocks

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• I don't really care who's doing drugs in the NBA as long as the scene isn't adversely affecting my team and teammates. I've known enough drug users-going as far back as grade school and the streets of New York-not to view them as pariahs or lost souls. I've certainly smoked more than my quota of weed.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Weed, New York, Team

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• Most of the players in the league use marijuana, and I have and do partake in smoking weed in the offseason sometimes.

  Josh Howard

  Weed, Player, League

  "Cuban: Mavs will deal with Howard's admission of drug use internally". www.espn.com. April 28, 2008.

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• Smoking is related to practically every terrible thing that can happen to you.

  Loni Anderson

  Smoking, Terrible, Happens

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• In Hollywood you can't even smoke in a bar anymore and yet in the movies they're always showing people smoking. I don't get it.

  Gerald McRaney

  People, Smoking, Hollywood

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