Quotes on Marijuana

"We shall, by and by, want a world of hemp more for our own consumption."- John Adams

" 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 wront?"- Willie Nelson

" 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

"When I was a kid I inhaled frequently. That was the point."- Barack Obama

"Pot is not a drug"- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"You bet I did and I enjoyed it." (On whether he has smoked marijuana)- Michael Bloomberg (New York City Mayor)

"I think that marijuana should not only be legal, I think it should be a cottage industry. It would be wonderful for the state of Maine. There's some pretty good homegrown dope. I'm sure it would be even better if you could grow it with fertilizers and have greenhouses."- Stephen King

"I enjoy smoking cannabis and see no harm in it"- Jennifer Aniston "Forty million Americans smoked marijuana; the only ones who didn't like it were Judge Ginsberg, Clarence Thomas and Bill Clinton."- Jay Leno

"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.

"If people let government decide which foods they eat and medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny."- Thomas Jefferson

"Users in our matched-pair sample smoked marijuana in addition to as many tobacco cigarettes as did their matched non-using pairs. Yet their small airways were, if anything, a bit healthier than their matches. We must tentatively conclude either that marijuana has no harmful effect on such passages or that it actually offers some slight protection against harmful effects of tobacco smoke"- Cannabis in Costa Rica: A Study of Chronic Marijuana Use; Institute of Human Issues

"Medicines often produce side effects. Sometimes they are physically unpleasant. Cannabis too has discomforting side effects, but these are not physical they are political"- The Economist March 28th 1992

''I say legalize drugs because I want to see less drug abuse, not more. And I say legalize drugs because I want to see the criminals put out of business.''- Edward Ellison, former Head of Scotland Yard's Antidrug Squad (Source: London's Daily Mail, March 10, 1998)

"It really puzzles me to see Marijuana connected with Narcotics - Dope and all that crap…it's a thousand times better than whiskey - it's an Assistant - a friend."- Louis Armstrong

"Ones's condition on marijuana is always existential. One can feel the importance of each moment and how it is changing one. One feels one's being, one becomes aware of the enormous apparatus of nothingness- the hum of a hi-fi set, the emptiness of a pointless interruption, one becomes aware of the war between each of us, how the nothingness in each of us seeks to attack the being of others, how our being in turn is attacked by the nothingness in others."- Norman Mailer

"Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation to the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to farm more people than marijuana ever could."- William F. Buckley Jr.

"Whenever the people are for gay marriage or medical marijuana or assisted suicide, suddenly the "will of the people" goes out the window."- Bill Maher

"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 and outrage within an outrage."- Peter McWilliams

"I, as a responsible adult human being, will never concede the power to anyone to regulate my choice of what I put into my body, or where I go with my mind. From the skin inwards is my jurisdiction, is it not? I choose what may or may not cross that border. ...I am the sole legal and spiritual government of this territory, and only the laws I choose to enact within myself are applicable."- Alexander Shulgin

"Marijuana is a useful catalyst for specific optical and aural aesthetic perceptions. I apprehended the structure of certain pieces of jazz and classical music in a new manner under the influence of marijuana, and these apprehensions have remained valid in years of normal consciousness."- Allen Ginsburg

"I think pot should be legal. I don't smoke it, but I like the smell of it."- Andy Warhol

"Several generations of high school students have grown up ignoring and disbelieving everything they've heard from government and police about drugs, including information that was factual and valid, because they discovered for themselves that most of what has been taught to them was simply not true."- Ann Shlugin

"When they took the 4th Amendment, I was quiet because I didn't deal drugs. When they took the 5th Amendment, I was quiet because I wasn't a criminal. When they took the 2nd Amendment, I was quiet because I didn't own a gun. Now they've taken the 1st Amendment, and I can say nothing about it."- Anonymous

"Yes, [I use] grass and hash - no hard drugs. But the point is I do what I feel like doing."- Arnold Schwarzenegger "

All laws which can be violated without doing anyone any injury are laughed at. Nay, so far are they from doing anything to control the desires and passions of man that, on the contrary, they direct and incite men's thoughts toward these very objects; for we always strive toward what is forbidden and desire the things we are not allowed to have."- Baruch Spinoza

"Smoking's a way to let you down slowly from a ballgame. It also makes you use less of the resources around. It makes people better in the way they act towards society. Everybody's nicer. It's hard to be mean when you're stoned."- Bill Lee

"One of the problems that the marijuana-reform movement consistently faces is that everyone wants to talk about what marijuana does, but no one ever wants to look at what marijuana prohibition does. Marijuana never kicks down your door in the middle of the night. Marijuana never locks up sick and dying people, does not suppress medical research, does not peek in bedroom windows."- William F. Buckley Jr.

"Hemp is of first necessity to the wealth and protection of the country!"- Thomas Jefferson

"When I first got turned on to pot, it was almost legal in the sense that no one really knew what it was,... especially in Canada. I remember smoking it behind this jazz club with the guys that turned me on, and the police came and searched the car for booze. And we were all laughing hysterically. They wanted to know what kind of tobacco that was, and we told them it was Italian tobacco."- Tommy Chong

"True, the Founding Fathers had provided for a specific right to bear arms, but the only reason they'd nothing to say to about the right to plant seeds (was)... because it never would have occurred to them that any state might care to abridge that right. After all, they were writing on hemp paper."- Will Fulton

"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.

"Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves."- Ronald Reagan

Drugs

The process is only to understand the conciousness. To me, that is all I want. Truthfully, I have no desire to try cocaine, heroine, or any other alcoholic drug. I want to explore myself since it is the most important object in the human life; the life you own itself. I want to explore my brain and conciousness; the imagination and creativity that my brain can explore. LSD and shrooms are my next adventure into the fact that they are not habit forming since all they do is give the user a new perception to life. Cocaine and other illicit drugs make your emotions mold into what a human being wants; numbness to pain and endless ignorant happiness throughout the body. With shrooms and LSD the human mind is free to explore all the senses, all that can make the mind itself. All these drugs do, is rearrange chemicals in the human brain that are already there. In response these drugs have to go somewhere once they are in the human body, thus causing the LSD or shrooms to store in your body after they trigger these chemicals. If you could control your brain you could naturally exhibit these interesting and knowledgeable side effects. And with that if you can understand your mind, you understand your whole self. What freaks me out is that what is in us we do not fully understand, since what we have we should completly understand because it is us. I do not know myself. The person I can truly be is all in my brain, and since the human being only uses 10% of our brain we do not obtain our full ability. We waste our brain, and thus with shrooms and lsd we explore a glimpse of what we can truly become. Of what our brain is hiding. Anything is possible.

Tolerance

When chronically smoking marijuana, the user's ability to get that same "high" as he/she used to obtain when first exposed to the plant, is more difficult to experience. Is it that you are unable to expierience that same high or is it that you still get that same high but you have just learned how to act in it. You have learned the high so well that you unnoticably work the high into a sober state. Or is what explained the defintion of tolerance?

Other insights

If a person wrote a suicide note and kept it with them at all times, would whatever death they come across (even if it wasn't intentional) be considered suicide?

Marijuana

I just love everything about marijuana; learning about it, talking about it, smoking it, breaking it up and smelling it. As bad as you may think of this, Marijuana is like a friend to me; people may tell me to stop hanging out with it and I could, but I would never want to. It is a beautiful herb and flower, with absolutly no evil attached.

I wish that when i grow up i can smoke the herb freely, smoking a blunt on the beach or on a beautiful day taking a stroll in the park and lighting up a spliff.

"If people let government decide which foods they eat and medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny." (Thomas Jefferson)

I prefer civil disobedience, since it is the right as a person to disobey unjust laws. The herb is not nesessarily used to get fucked up, it is more spiritual and beautiful that that; it gives creativity, openmindedness, and happiness. It is more of a plant than ever a drug. A drug to me, is something chemically manmade, when marijuana is as much of a plant as trees or grass. Something so natural is praised in other cultures and disgraced upon in ours. I think if we learn to adapt it to our culture, the benefits will grant us only prosperity.

Popularity

From ages eleven to seventeen, an American teenager spends every waking hour, 365 days a year, to be popular. Everything teenagers do is subconsciously to be accepted and admired. The way a person dresses is to look good, not for themselves, but to their peers. Other people's opinions of what is considered "right" becomes their definition of "right", shaping every move and every detail, up to the way they walk, act, and dress.

Life at this age revolves around popularity more than ever in an entire lifespan. When we were children, our lives revolved around our parents, not by other children. By middle school, these children start treating their family as a day job and they create a new world among them. Standing in this world is what matters, being "accepted" matters. If adults went to work, and there co-workers criticized the way they looked, saying "slut," or having the fear of getting bullied and teased, I'm pretty sure adults would be worried about popularity as well.

The issue on popularity is sad and colossal. I think it is pathetic that we do everything in our lives to impress and to be liked. Starving for these alliances and doing things for the feeling of being elite among others. Popularity is not so much about being well liked; it is more of being looked up to. The only reason to why these people are "popular" is because they look down upon others so those can look up. By creating followers that envy, it is easy to control and manipulate that group into having power over them. Making fun of others can help rank themselves higher, and reassure people that they are better. Popularity to me is egotistical; caring for an opinion of those who are not cared for.

However, it may seem that high school social status is set up to be a pyramid; it in fact is more shaped like a pear. The top is the most popular and least in number; there can only be few with such envious characteristics and supremacy. The middle social class is the fat of the pear, they are the largest in number, and most are striving to be at that peak top, obsessing their teenage career on false abstractions (which have absolutely no use after high school.) The bottom is also narrow, and is the least popular. The bottom of the food chain always gets the most teasing and bullying. To be last on this social ladder can make some people miserable, so miserable that people have committed suicide.

I honestly believe popular opinion is the biggest lie in the world. I think media telling the public what is acceptable, grosses me out. Teenage culture is so corrupt that it seems almost impossible to find people that are different and unusual. The more popular and more religious a person, I feel, the more unintelligent he/she is. They do what they’ve been told and don’t question or act from doubt. They believe what is being told and base their life on it. I want to see more different people, more people to find themselves rather than make themselves. "By avoiding popularity, thou shall find peace." (Abraham Lincoln)