Medical Marijuana Quotes

• Cannabis is remarkably safe. Although not harmless, it is surely less toxic than most of the conventional medicines it could replace if it were legally available. Despite its use by millions of people over thousands of years, cannabis has never caused an overdose death.

  Lester Grinspoon

  Marijuana, Years, Medicine

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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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• Instead of taking five or six of the prescriptions, I decided to go a natural route and smoke marijuana.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Weed, Marijuana, Six

  "Melissa Etheridge's anthem of hope". "Dateline" with Stone Phillips, www.nbcnews.com. October 16, 2005.

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• The evidence is overwhelming that marijuana can relieve certain types of pain, nausea, vomiting and other symptoms caused by such illnesses as multiple sclerosis, cancer and AIDS - or by the harsh drugs sometimes used to treat them. And it can do so with remarkable safety. Indeed, marijuana is less toxic than many of the drugs that physicians prescribe every day.

  Joycelyn Elders

  Weed, Pain, Cancer

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

  Bob Marley

  Weed, Hippie, Drinking

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• [Marijuana] doesn't have a high potential for abuse, and there are very legitimate medical applications. In fact, sometimes marijuana is the only thing that works... [I]t is irresponsible not to provide the best care we can as a medical community, care that could involve marijuana. We have been terribly and systematically misled for nearly 70 years in the United States, and I apologize for my own role in that.

  Sanjay Gupta

  Marijuana, Years, Community

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• Why is marijuana against the law? It grows naturally upon our planet. Doesn’t the idea of making nature against the law seem to you a bit . . . unnatural?

  Bill Hicks

  Funny, Weed, Humor

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• Hemp is of first necessity to the wealth & protection of the country.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Weed, Country, Marijuana

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• As a physician, I recommend nutritious hemp seeds and oil to anyone interested in maintaining a healthy diet. Everyone will benefit when American farmers can grow this amazing crop once again.

  Andrew Weil

  Marijuana, Oil, Healthy

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• The illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly mad and dangerous world.

  Carl Sagan

  Weed, Marijuana, Dangerous World

  "Mr. X". Essay by Carl Sagan, hermiene.net. 1969.

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• I am not backing down on medical marijuana; I am doubling down.

  Sanjay Gupta

  Marijuana, Medical, Backing Down

  "Gupta: 'I am doubling down' on medical marijuana". edition.cnn.com. March 6, 2014.

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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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• Marijuana is the finest anti-nausea medication known to science, and our leaders have lied about this consistently. [Arresting people for] medical marijuana is the most hideous example of government interference in the private lives of individuals. It's an outrage within an outrage within an outrage.

  Peter McWilliams

  Marijuana, Government, People

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• Why use up the forests which were centuries in the making and the mines which required ages to lay down, if we can get the equivalent of forest and mineral products in the annual growth of the hemp fields?

  Henry Ford

  Weed, Marijuana, Growth

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• We have been terribly and systematically misled for nearly 70 years in the United States.

  Sanjay Gupta

  Weed, Marijuana, Years

  "Why I changed my mind on weed" By Dr. Sanjay Gupta, www.cnn.com. August 8, 2013.

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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, Marijuana, Government

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• They legalized alcohol, they legalized tobacco. What is it gonna hurt to legalize this medicinal, medical marijuana that's used for purposes of cataracts?

  Snoop Dogg

  Weed, Hurt, Marijuana

  "Snoop Dogg: My Aroma Will Get Obama High And Convince Him To Legalize Weed" by Brett Michael Dykes, uproxx.com. January 9, 2012.

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• It really puzzles me to see marijuana connected with narcotics dope and all of that stuff. It is a thousand times better than whiskey. It is an assistant and a friend.

  Louis Armstrong

  Weed, Marijuana, Dope

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• When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.

  Bob Marley

  Weed, Marijuana, Addiction

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• ..Because when medical marijuana is fully accepted for what it is, we will see a phenomenon that makes Viagra's phenomenon seem limp.

  Peter McWilliams

  Marijuana, Viagra, Medical

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• I enjoy smoking cannabis and see no harm in it

  Jennifer Aniston

  Weed, Marijuana, Smoking

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• I don't think [pot] is more dangerous than alcohol.

  Barack Obama

  Weed, Marijuana, Thinking

  "Going the Distance" by David Remnick, www.newyorker.com. January 27, 2014.

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• We shall, by and by, want a world of hemp more for our own consumption.

  John Adams

  Weed, Marijuana, World

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• If the words 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn't worth the hemp it was written on.

  Terence McKenna

  Weed, Pursuit Of Happiness, Marijuana

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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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