Marijuana Use Quotes

#1. [About his marijuana use] I did. It's not something that I'm proud of. It was a mistake as a young man, but you know? I mean not going to
I never understood that line. The point was to inhale. That was the point.

Barack Obama

#2. I am not by any stretch an enthusiast or fan of marijuana. I don't use it. I don't want any kids anywhere to use it; if I ever find one of my kids using it, they are in big trouble.

Jared Huffman

#3. 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

#4. We have noted the appeal of Honorable Ambrosini about the decriminalizing of marijuana for medical use.

Jacob Zuma

#5. 90% of the problem with marijuana is prohibition related, not use related.

Gary Johnson

#6. I don't think any responsible performer would go on stage high. If he convinced himself he is better that way, he is deluding himself.

Oliver

#7. "Some of the anxiety has been laid to rest. We don't see a spike in adult use. We don't think we see a spike in youth consumption although there are some things that are disconcerting."

John Hickenlooper

#8. It is beyond my comprehension that any humane person would withhold such a beneficial substance from people in such great need simply because others use it for different purposes.

Steven Gould

#9. 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

#10. I would not have the Justice Department prosecuting and raiding medical marijuana users. It's not a good use of our resources.

Barack Obama

#11. It is haram [religiously forbidden] to use narcotics in any way because it results in considerable adverse effects in terms of personal health and social cost. By the same token, it is haram to deal in narcotics in any way, i.e., carrying, transporting, storing, selling, buying, etc.

Ali Khamenei

#12. There is no legitimate use whatsoever for marijuana. This is not medicine. This is bogus witchcraft. It has no place in medicine, no place in pain relief.

Bob Barr

#13. 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

#14. I would absolutely never use the federal government to enforce the law of using marijuana

Ron Paul

#15. Permanent brain damage is one of the inevitable results of the use of marijuana.

Ronald Reagan

#16. Why do I do it? Because I enjoy its effects. You know, I - why does anybody use any mind-altering substance, you know, because they like the way it makes them feel.

Mark Stepnoski

#17. The marijuana paradox - although associated with increased
appetite and calorie consumption, regular use of cannabis,
protects against diabetes and obesity. How it manages to do so, however, is still anybody's guess!

The Fitness Doc

#18. He'd gotten a botany internship thinking that he could use it to grow illicit, untaxed marijuana only to discover that every third botany intern had come in with the same plan.

James S.A. Corey

#19. I don't believe that laws against things that people do regularly, like safe and responsible use of marijuana, make any sense,

Peter B. Lewis

#20. Marijuana is like sex. If I don't do it every day, I get a headache. I think marijuana should be recognized for what it is, as a medicine, an herb that grows in the ground. If you need it, use it.

Willie Nelson

#21. In fact, marijuana lowers your stress level and lowers your body temperature. It actually seems that people live longer if they use it. If you substitute marijuana for tobacco and alcohol, you'll add 24 years to your life.

Jack Herer

#22. I agree with my colleagues, even the one who just preceded me, that marijuana is probably a dangerous drug, and I would not suggest that we do anything to encourage its use.

Dana Rohrabacher

#23. I believe, very strongly, that it is the responsible, adult, recreational, no apologies necessary, 'it just makes my music more fun,' recreational use of marijuana is a civil liberty.

Rick Steves

#24. Thousands of years people have taken drugs, whether it's alcohol, which was invented about 5,000 years ago. People have been using that. And all kinds of marijuana and all these things, tobacco. So all these drugs have been - it seems to be the propensity of human beings to want to use them.

Mick Jagger

#25. Marijuana has a lot of very good medical uses, and I truly believe it should be legal, but for just recreational use it wasn't my drug. I didn't like it.

Linda Ronstadt

#26. I never use the word "drug" without defining it. I define it exactly the way the DEA defines it, "a chemical compound capable of reproduction in standardized dosages." I explain that marijuana is a plant with many drugs in it, just like any other plant.

Carl E. Olson

#27. 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

#28. Most of the players in the league use marijuana, and I have and do partake in smoking weed in the offseason sometimes.

Josh Howard

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

Richard M. Nixon

#30. It was declared by Congress that marijuana makes people insane. But ... lawyers, defense lawyers, got the idea, OK, I can use this for an insanity defense.

Noam Chomsky

#31. The whole LSD, STP, marijuana, heroin, hashish, prescription cough medicine crowd suffers from the "Watchtower" itch: you gotta be with us, man, or you're out, you're dead. This pitch is a continual and seeming MUST with those who use the stuff. It's no wonder they keep getting busted.

Charles Bukowski

#32. Unquestionably, this drug is is very useful to the artist, activating trains of association that would otherwise be inaccessible, and I owe many of the scenes in Naked Lunch directly to the use of cannabis.

William Burroughs