Quotes About Marijuana

#1. 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

#2. Her daughter had given her a puff of a marijuana cigarette once, but after all the hot pads on the counter started walking toward her, she got scared and never tried it again. So dope was out.

Fannie Flagg

#3. I think it is now widely understood that the so-called "War on Drugs" has largely been a failure. Too many people have developed criminal records for smoking marijuana. Too many people have gone to jail for nonviolent crimes. So I think it's important for us to rethink the war on drugs.

Bernie Sanders

#4. We went to high school together; he was a year older than me. I remember him there ... he was very tall and skinny, wore lots of ponytails in his head, and I'm pretty sure I bought weed from him. I had to have.

Cameron Diaz

#5. I'm not fighting for the Marlboro-ization of marijuana.

Ethan Nadelmann

#6. Marijuana is a very dangerous drug. Some people smoke it just once and go directly into politics.

Barry Crimmins

#7. She loved dogs, New York, television, children, friendship, sex, laughing, heartbreaking songs, marijuana, farts, and cuddling.

Sarah Silverman

#8. 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

#9. Sarah Palin has admitted she tried marijuana several years ago, but she did not like it. She said it distorted her perceptions, impaired her thinking, and she's hoping that the effects will eventually wear off.

Jay Leno

#10. 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

#11. Now it is one thing to say I say it that people shouldn't consume psychoactive drugs. It is entirely something else to condone marijuana laws, the application of which resulted, in 1995, in the arrest of 588,963 Americans. Why are we so afraid to inform ourselves on the question?

William F. Buckley Jr.

#12. They think my mother's ashes are marijuana.

Graham Greene

#13. I have a reputation for giving unpopular answers at Democratic debates. I never used marijuana. Sorry!

Joe Lieberman

#14. A society has to make a choice: tolerate alternative lifestyles or build more prisons.

Rick Steves

#15. I think that marijuana should be legalized. I think the only reason it isn't legal is because politicians who smoked it when they were young men or young women just don't have the courage when they become politicians to legalize it.

Richard Branson

#16. Marijuana is ten times more dangerous than twenty years ago.

William J. Clinton

#17. A candle can bring light to a dungeon but it can also be used to light a deadly marijuana cigarette.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#18. That is my best friend because it is a gift of the creator to Africans. It is a spirit. Marijuana has five fingers of creation ... it enhances all your five senses.

Fela Kuti

#19. Marijuana, for example, won't help one determine the correct aspect ratio ...

David Mamet

#20. A Hit Of This,' Mr. President? The Huffington Post President Barack Obama had an up-close encounter with Denver's marijuana subculture during a stop in the city on Tuesday night.

Anonymous

#21. Young people: I understand this is important to you, but as you be thinking about climate change, the economy and jobs, war and peace, maybe way at the bottom you should be thinking about marijuana.

Barack Obama

#22. I have been addicted to it, and it's ultimately related to anxiety coping, and it's a form of self-medication, and I was smoking up to 15 to 20 marijuana cigarettes a day with no tobacco.

Lady Gaga

#23. Statistical fact: cops will never pull over a man in a sweet van
if he's carrying forty pounds of sinsemilla buds. Another fact:
ninety percent of all statistics are made up.

Daniel Younger

#24. Pot itself has nothing to do with pots and pans, but comes from the Mexican-Spanish word potiguaya, which means marijuana leaves. And marijuana is a Mexification of 'Mary Jane' for reasons that everybody is much too stoned to remember.

Mark Forsyth

#25. I had tried marijuana several times, but in the words of my friend and longtime assistant Janet Stark, When I smoke pot, it makes me want to hide under the bed with a box of graham crackers and not share.

Linda Ronstadt

#26. If someone wants to do drugs ... as long as he or she isn't corrupting minors or driving under the influence or endangering others, shouldn't a person have that right?

Brad Pitt

#27. 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

#28. I wish people would call poisons poison. I don't mind people smoking marijuana, but they should admit it's a poison, and coffee's a poison, but the Americans lie so.

James Purdy

#29. Scott signs 'Charlotte's Web' medical marijuana bill By Tia Mitchell and Mary

Anonymous

#30. Bill Clinton does not inhale marijuana, right? You bet. Like I chew on LSD but I don't swallow it.'

Hunter S. Thompson

#31. I think that marijuana makes you stupid but sensual. I've watched many of my friends and loved ones become more erotic and dumber - just going around with a glazed expression on their faces from their last orgasms to the next - and found them really quite boring.

Timothy Leary

#32. "One of the governor's complaints: federal rules that prohibit dispensary owners from putting their money in banks. "If you really want to introduce corruption into legal marijuana," he said, make it an all cash business."

John Hickenlooper

#33. Congress should definitely consider decriminalizing possession of marijuana ... We should concentrate on prosecuting the rapists and burglars who are a menace to society.

Dan Quayle

#34. I used to smoke marijuana, but that was when I was in college,
before it was a drug.

Dan Quayle

#35. My favorite idea is doing an all-night tent show starring my friend's band Marijuana Deathsquads, where everyone would wear super-loud headphones, and there would be tons of subs and lights. It'd be really dope.

Justin Vernon

#36. One might ask why tobacco is legal and marijuana not. A possible answer is suggested by the nature of the crop. Marijuana can be grown almost anywhere, with little difficulty. It might not be easily marketable by major corporations. Tobacco is quite another story.

Noam Chomsky

#37. But the Dutch speak four languages and smoke marijuana.

Eddie Izzard

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

Barack Obama

#39. The only dead bodies from marijuana are in the prisons and at the hands of the police. This is ridiculous.

Jack Herer

#40. Crucial to understanding federalism in modern day America is the concept of mobility, or 'the ability to vote with your feet.' If you don't support the death penalty and citizens packing a pistol - don't come to Texas. If you don't like medicinal marijuana and gay marriage, don't move to California.

Rick Perry

#41. I've never taken drugs of any kind, never had a glass of alcohol. Never had a cigarette, never had a cup of coffee.

Donald Trump

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

Melissa Etheridge

#43. During a recent trip to Amsterdam, she sent me a picture of her smoking marijuana for the first time just because I asked her to.

Amy Poehler

#44. She wrote something down. She held her eyes firm on the pad. "Marijuana is a hallucinogen," she said softly.

Aspen Matis

#45. I think that most small amounts of marijuana have been decriminalized in some places, and should be. We really need a re-examination of our entire policy on imprisonment ... Our imprisonment policies are counterproductive.

William J. Clinton

#46. If people believe that marijuana helps their medical issues then they should allow people to indulge in those remedies. It is criminal that we do not encourage "science" to fully investigate the medical usages of pot.

Steven Machat

#47. They didn't let you bring marijuana on airplanes, apparently, as hard as that was to believe.

Allie Burke

#48. If organized religion is the opium of the masses, then disorganized religion is the marijuana of the lunatic fringe.

Kerry Thornley

#49. If the principle is, "Let's not get lethal substances out to the public", the first one you'd go after is tobacco. The next one you'd go after is alcohol. Way down the list you'd get to cocaine, and sort of invisibly low you'd get to marijuana.

Noam Chomsky

#50. I felt that there was nothing wrong with what I was doing because I was supplying a product to people that wanted it and it was accepted. I mean nobody really was making any negative statements about marijuana.

George Jung

#51. 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

#52. Once both gay marriage and marijuana are finally legal, those of you against them are not invited to the really fun parties I'm gonna throw.

Zach Braff

#53. People say you can abuse marijuana. You can abuse cheeseburgers. Does that mean we should close Burger Kings.

Joe Rogan

#54. I enjoy smoking cannabis and see no harm in it

Jennifer Aniston

#55. Is marijuana addictive? Yes, in the sense that most of the really pleasant things in life are worth endlessly repeating.

Richard Neville

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

Richard M. Nixon

#57. By regulating marijuana, we can put black market drug dealers out of business and eliminate the rebellious allure that attracts young people.

Sal Albanese

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

Josh Howard

#59. He smoked so much marijuana that his hair smelled like a cupboard crammed with oregano;

John Irving

#60. Legalize it, and I will advertise it.

Peter Tosh

#61. President Obama smoked so much pot in college he never learned to spell. Which is why he's confusing the word "ruining" the country with "running" the country.

Kilburn Hall

#62. For instance, they [The Federal Narcotics Bureau ] give out that marijuana is a harmful and habit-forming drug, and it simply isn't. They claim that you can get addicted to opiates with one shot, and you can't. They over-estimate the physical bad effects, and so forth.

William S. Burroughs

#63. Marijuana is the most violence causing drug in the history of mankindMost marijuana smokers are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos and entertainers.

Harry J. Anslinger

#64. An American judo fighter was expelled from the Olympics after testing positive for marijuana. Officials became suspicious when he kept stopping the match and saying, 'What are we fighting for, man?'

Conan O'Brien

#65. 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

#66. I love stoner comedies. I smoked weed in college, but I haven't smoked in years.

Natalie Portman

#67. Marijuana is not much more difficult to obtain than beer. The reason for this is that a liquor store selling beer to a minor stands to lose its liquor license. Marijuana salesmen don't have expensive overheads, and so are not easily punished.

William F. Buckley Jr.

#68. With more and more states legalizing marijuana, companies are lining up to create the first marijuana breathalyzer. Officials say the toughest part is getting stoners to stop trying to inhale off the breathalyzer.

Jimmy Fallon

#69. I haven't smoked marijuana since I was at NYU,

Bill De Blasio

#70. 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

#71. Marijuana is taken by musicians. And I'm not speaking about good musicians, but the jazz type ...

Harry J. Anslinger

#72. I suspect that someday in a world with legal marijuana for adults, you will probably have branding that occurs for different types of the product.

Jared Huffman

#73. The AMA is urging the Federal Government not to classify marijuana as a dangerous drug and do more research. That's what they said. It's a big story, yeah. Yeah, that request came not only from the AMA but also from KFC.

Conan O'Brien

#74. Selling pot allowed me to get through college and make enough money to start off in comedy.

Bill Maher

#75. To inspire himself, he lit up a marijuana cigarette, excellent Land-O-Smiles brand. In

Philip K. Dick

#76. Marijuana? It's harmless really, unless you fashion it into a club and beat somebody over the head with it

Bill Bailey

#77. Americans not only smoke more marijuana but also imprison more people for marijuana than any other western industrialized nation.

Eric Schlosser

#78. My national resources consist of two joints of marijuana millions of genitals an unpublishable private literature that goes 1400 miles an hour and twenty-five-thousand mental institutions.

Allen Ginsberg

#79. I don't believe that weed is a drug. I believe its herbal medicine. I'll smoke that occasionally and I definitely back marijuana but anything harder than that, I just say no to and I encourage kids to say no to hard drugs.

Christofer Drew

#80. There are now more teens going into treatment for marijuana dependency than for all other drugs combined.

John Walters

#81. Everywhere I go, people hear Ricky Williams and the next thing they think is marijuana or wasted talent.

Ricky Williams

#82. When I was in England I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn't like it. I didn't inhale.

Bill Clinton

#83. I never would force the Justice Department to go to California and arrest people getting medical marijuana, when that's the law there.

Ron Paul

#84. Weed, you know, you just get mellow. You can drive pretty stoned and be OK. I mean, sometimes you get too stoned and you can't drive. But you could get pretty stoned and still drive.

Jason Mewes

#85. I have always loved marijuana. It has been a source of joy and comfort to me for many years. And I still think of it as a basic staple of life, along with beer and ice and grapefruits - and millions of Americans agree with me.

Hunter S. Thompson

#86. If you grew up in the 60's or 70's, and didn't do drugs I don't trust you.

Danny Danko

#87. It seems madness to say, 'We're worried that they're going to become addicted to marijuana'
there's no evidence whatever that it's an addictive drug, but even if it were, these people are dying, what are we saving them from?

Carl Sagan

#88. Marijuana does not lead to harder drugs. People will get bored of the pot and move on down the line to stronger drugs to get the high they need. They either stay with pot or quit.

Steven Machat

#89. 'Cause I was already a smoker, it was easy to get addicted. The one thing that they don't teach you about marijuana is how addictive it is.

Merle Haggard

#90. 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

#91. I don't think marijuana should be illegal.

Jon Stewart

#92. I'm not going to be Bill Clinton and say I never inhaled. I did inhale. I liked tobacco a lot better.

Frank Zappa

#93. 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

#94. Good people don't smoke marijuana.

Jeff Sessions

#95. 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

#96. If adults want to take such chances (with marijuana) that is their business

Ronald Reagan

#97. [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

#98. If I'm going to be totally honest, I don't think that smoking weed is that big a deal.

Chloe Madeley

#99. Hollywood is a coke town, but weed is so much better. And Molly, too; those are happy drugs - social drugs. They make you want to be with friends. You're out in the open. You're not in a bathroom.

Miley Cyrus

#100. Marijuana prohibition is just the stupidest law possible ... Jus t legalize it and tax it like we do liquor.

Morgan Freeman