Lester Grinspoon Quotes

#1. Community development has a long history of innovation and learning from experience.

Ben Bernanke

#2. Writing is like carrying a fetus.

Edna O'Brien

#3. To accept Naturalism is to reject such entities as Cartesian minds, private visual and tactual spaces, angelic beings and God.

David Malet Armstrong

#4. Dreams are, by definition, cursed with short life spans.

Candice Bergen

#5. I haven't lost a war. No one got killed. I just lost a tennis match.

Boris Becker

#6. I began to study marijuana in 1967 ... I had not yet learned that there is something very special about illicit drugs. If they don't always make the drug user behave irrationally, they certainly cause many non-users to behave that way.

Lester Grinspoon

#7. The point is not to be the best, but to be the best you can be.

Ken Robinson

#8. I think a bad husband is far worse than no husband ...

Margaret Cavendish

#9. We in this country have to make up our minds
we can not have it both ways: we cannot be both drug-free and free.

Lester Grinspoon

#10. I've been smoking marijuana for 44 years now, and ... I think it's a tremendous blessing.

Lester Grinspoon

#11. In his 1930 book, Dirac took for granted that measurements could be made, but was very vague about what was actually involved.

Willis Lamb

#12. 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

#13. He sent the trained dog that is his talent off in search of a fat glorious pheasant, and it brought back the lower half of a Barbie doll.

George Saunders

#14. Marijuana is one of the least toxic substances in the whole pharmacopoeia

Lester Grinspoon

#15. That we may give our body and our blood over to suffering and pain, like Christ - not for Self, but to give harvests of peace and justice to our People.

Oscar Romero

#16. patients with aphasia and left-hemisphere lesions, says they have lost 'abstract' and 'propositional' thought - and compares them with dogs (or, rather, he compares dogs to patients with aphasia).

Oliver Sacks

#17. He'd captured her a couple of days ago. It was fitting that she capture him right back.

Erin Kellison

#18. 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

#19. The anarchist and the Christian have a common origin.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#20. There are two things that Jack Bauer never does. Show mercy, and go to the bathroom.

Kiefer Sutherland