Marijuana Quotes - Page 5

• I'd always done a lot of sniffing glue as a kid. I was very interested in glue, and then I went to lager and speed, and I drifted into heroin because as a kid growing up everybody told me, 'don't smoke marijuana, it will kill you'.

  Irvine Welsh

  Weed, Growing Up, Kids

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• This country would be a better place to live in if all the resources we currently put toward criminalizing marijuana were instead spent by law enforcement on protection from real crime, as opposed to victimless crime.

  Gary Johnson

  Country, Real, Law

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• I support decriminalisation. People are smoking pot anyway and to make them into criminals is wrong. It's when you're in jail you really become a criminal.

  Paul McCartney

  Weed, Jail, People

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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, Years

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

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• Nausea is an unsolved problem of medicine and marijuana is the finest anti-nausea medication known to science.

  Peter McWilliams

  Medicine, Nausea, Problem

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• Hollywood is a coke town, but weed is so much better. And Molly, too; those are happy drugs - social drugs. They make you want to be with friends. You're out in the open. You're not in a bathroom.

  Miley Cyrus

  Weed, Drug, Hollywood

  "Miley Cyrus on Why She Loves Weed, Went Wild at the VMAs and Much More" By Josh Eells, www.rollingstone.com. September 27, 2013.

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• I was hiding out from the celebrity thing, I was smoking way too much [marijuana].

  Brad Pitt

  Weed, Smoking, Too Much

  "'I almost turned into a doughnut!' Brad Pitt reveals the reasons he quit smoking marijuana". www.dailymail.co.uk. January 26, 2012.

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• Science grows like a weed every year.

  Kary Mullis

  Weed, Years, Grows

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• I'd like to see the government back a programme of research into the medical properties of cannabis and I do not object to its responsible use as a recreational relaxant.

  Richard Branson

  Weed, Government, Use

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• I did everything but drink the bong water when I was young.

  Dana Rohrabacher

  Water, Drink, Bongs

  "Dornan to make drugs an issue Rohrabacher's youthful substance use and medical-marijuana bill are targets" by Martin Wisckol, www.angelfire.com. December 22, 2003.

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• Violence is like a weed - it does not die even in the greatest drought.

  Simon Wiesenthal

  Weed, Fear, Doe

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• I do not believe that the federal government should treat adults who choose to smoke marijuana as criminals.

  Barney Frank

  Believe, Government, Adults

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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, Law

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• Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

  Francis Bacon

  Running, Weed, Nature

  Essays "Of Revenge" (1625)

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• I have a reputation for giving unpopular answers at Democratic debates. I never used marijuana. Sorry!

  Joe Lieberman

  Sorry, Giving, Answers

  "The Nation; Explaining Why They Didn't Inhale" by Steven A. Holmes, www.nytimes.com. November 9, 2003.

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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, Hemp, India

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• Cannabis never killed anybody and it's use is widespread. You can"t stop it. The law defeats itself because all the efforts to stop drugs coming in only drives up the prices and then gangsters move in to push the drugs. If they legalised there wouldn't be gangsters and huge profits...The police are gradually decriminalising the possession of cannabis because they realise there's not much point prosecuting

  James Pickles

  Weed, Moving, Law

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• The ultimate 20-year plan is to be living in the Caribbean, writing, living off the land, eating from the ocean and probably smoking herb.

  Ryan Phillippe

  Weed, Ocean, Writing

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• I don't know what is marijuana. Perhaps I will try it when it will no longer be criminal. I will have my money for my fine and a joint in the other hand

  Jean Chretien

  Weed, Hands, Trying

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• I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.

  Harriet Tubman

  Weed, Ignorant, Liberty

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• I love having my hands in the dirt. It is never a science and always an art. There are no rules. And if it comes down to me versus that weed I'm trying to pull out of the ground that doesn't want to come out? I know I'll win.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Weed, Art, Winning

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• Neither do thou lust after that tawny weed tobacco.

  Ben Jonson

  Weed, Lust, Tobacco

  Ben Jonson (1999). “Five Plays”, p.529, Oxford University Press, USA

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• [Slavery] is a weed that grows in every soil.

  Edmund Burke

  Inspirational, Weed, Slavery

  "The Works of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke: With a Biographical and Critical Introduction, and Portrait After Sir Joshua Reynolds".

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• When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - then all Americans are in peril.

  Harry S. Truman

  Fear, War, Political

  United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1965). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

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

  Harry J. Anslinger

  Weed, Men, Thinking

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