Pot Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• Federal and state laws (should) be changed to no longer make it a crime to possess marijuana for private use.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Funny, Weed, Marijuana

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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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• We all need something to help us unwind at the end of the day. You might have a glass of wine, or a joint, or a big delicious blob of heroin to silence your silly brainbox of its witterings but there has to be some form of punctuation, or life just seems utterly relentless.

  Russell Brand

  Weed, Silly, Wine

  Russell Brand (2009). “My Booky Wook: A Memoir of Sex, Drugs, and Stand-Up”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• As has been well documented, I smoked pot as a kid, and I view it as a bad habit and a vice, not very different from the cigarettes that I smoked as a young person up through a big chunk of my adult life. I don't think it is more dangerous than alcohol.

  Barack Obama

  Weed, Kids, Thinking

  "Obama: Marijuana no more dangerous than alcohol", www.foxnews.com. January 19, 2014.

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• I am convinced that there are genuine and valid levels of perception available with cannabis (and probably with other drugs) which are, through the defects of our society and our educational system, un-available to us without such drugs.

  Lester Grinspoon

  Weed, Educational, Marijuana

  Lester Grinspoon (1971). “Marihuana reconsidered”

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• When a private enterprise fails, it is closed down; when a government enterprise fails, it is expanded. Isn't that exactly what's been happening with drugs?

  Milton Friedman

  Weed, Marijuana, Government

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• Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain as marijuana. The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two but can't remember what they are.

  Matt Lauer

  Funny, Marijuana, Two

  "The hard shell" by Richard Johnson, www.theguardian.com. August 26, 2006.

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• The amount of money and of legal energy being given to prosecute hundreds of thousands of Americans who are caught with a few ounces of marijuana makes no sense.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Weed, Marijuana, Jeans

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

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• You send the best of this country off to be shot and maimed. No wonder the kids rebel and take pot.

  Eartha Kitt

  Country, Kids, Rebel

  Eartha Kitt (2002). “Rejuvenate!: (It's Never Too Late)”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

  Albert Einstein (1949). “The World as I See it”, Citadel Press

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• Prohibition... goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes... A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Weed, Men, Blow

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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; and where they are, they should be changed. Nowhere is this more clear than in the laws against possession of marijuana in private for personal use... Therefore, I support legislation amending Federal law to eliminate all Federal criminal penalties for the possession of up to one ounce [28g] of marijuana.

  Jimmy Carter

  Weed, Marijuana, Law

  U.S. President in a message to the U.S. Congress, 1977.

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• The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this country is closely connected with this.

  Albert Einstein

  Country, Weed, War

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.6, Broadway Books

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  If you substitute marijuana for tobacco and alcohol, you'll add eight to 24 years to your life.

  Jack Herer

  Weed, Marijuana, Years

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• I used to smoke marijuana. But I'll tell you something: I would only smoke it in the late evening. Oh, occasionally the early evening, but usually the late evening - or the mid-evening. Just the early evening, midevening and late evening. Occasionally, early afternoon, early mid-afternoon, or perhaps the late-midafternoon. Oh, sometimes the early-mid-late-early morning. . . But never at dusk!

  Steve Martin

  Funny, Weed, Morning

  "Steve Martin: A Wild and Crazy Guy", 1978.

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

  Bob Marley

  Weed, Hippie, Drinking

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

  Bob Marley

  Weed, Marijuana, Addiction

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• I smoked some pot as a kid, but I just never did drugs.

  Taylor Dane

  Kids, Drug

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• The first time I heard of Tuol Sleng, it was on the Voice of America. I listened twice.

  Pol Pot

  Voice, America, Firsts

  "Day of Reckoning". "Far Eastern Economic Review" Magazine, October 1997.

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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 came to join the revolution, not to kill the Cambodian people. Look at me now. Am I a violent person? No. So, as far as my conscience and my mission were concerned, there was no problem.

  Pol Pot

  People, Revolution, Looks

  "Day of Reckoning". "Far Eastern Economic Review" Magazine, October 1997.

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• We will burn the old grass and the new will grow.

  Pol Pot

  Grass, Grows

  c.1975 Quoted in John Pilger DistantVoices (1992), section 5.

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