I think I might have been stupid in some respects, it if weren't for my psychedelic experiences - Kary Mullis Nobel Laureate

Avoid all needle drugs. The only dope worth shootingis Richard Nixon. -- Abbie Hoffman

(The) illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly mad and dangerous world - Carl Sagen

CSDP Chairman & Antiprohibitionist Author Mike Gray Videohttp://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5286512560109555555&q=marijuana&hl=en

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice - Al Einstein

I have never seen people on pot get in a fight, because it's fucking impossible - Bill Hicks

I'm not a big pot user anymore, but I always have a joint somewhere near me - George Carlin      

I Really Like Ed Forchion

 All drugs of any interest to any moderately intelligent personin America are now illegal - Thomas Szasz  Reason Magazine

 Yeah, man.It's time to let de people get good herbs and smoke.

Government's a joke - Bob Marley

Mary Warner, honey, you sure was good and I enjoyed you 'heep much'. But the price got a little too high to pay (law wise). At first you was a 'misdomeanor'. But as the years rolled on you lost your misdo and got meanor and meanor. (Jailousely speaking.) Sooo 'Bye Bye,' I'll have to put you down, Dearest - Louis Armstrong

Let us not say that we will decide on a political basis at the national level that no State is competent to regulate the practice of medicine in that State if they decide to allow a doctor to prescribe marijuana, because that is what we are talking about - Barney Frank

When I got out there, I said, 'I just want to tell you, Dennis. You know, it's nice that the Iraqis can vote, because I can't. You know why? Because your buddies put me in jail for selling bongs, and now I can't vote because I'm a felon. Thanks a lot, man.' Andhe says something like, 'Oh, yeah. I heard you were ... uh ...'- you know, faking like he didn't hear about it. And then I got around to New Year's Eve in Vancouver in '91, and he's kindof, 'Uh ... oh ... I don't really remember.' And I said, 'Well,you were really stoned, so you probably ...' and he really freaked. Says, 'I'm not a bud man! I wasn't stoned!'- Tommy Chong

I don't know.  I've never smoked AstroTurf - Tug McGraw Grass or Astrotruf?

 Woody Harrelson and Laura Louie's

Woody Harrelson Video - The History of Marijuana

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6134138168753053667&q=marijuana&hl=en

 We found a book put out by the Department of Health and Human Services called Correlates and Consequences of Marijuana. It has about 100 government studies on marijuana. The studies find there is a certain personality type that's more likely to smoke marijuana, [someone] who's creative, broad-minded, fun, smart, literate, usually college-bound -- Debbie Goldsberry, Cannabis Action Network

If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take to Hashish. -- Friedrich Nietzsche

Vietnamese grass is one of the most powerful, transforming herbs in the world. When I got high on that stuff listening to Smokey, that's when I began to understand that life is sacred, that life has great vibrancy, which, in my case, was a perception I couldn't get out of - Oliver Stone

It happened that a Countryman was sowing some hemp seeds in a field where a Swallow and some other birds were hopping about picking up their food. 'Beware of that man,' quoth the Swallow. 'Why, what is he doing?' said the others. 'That is hemp seed he is sowing; be careful to pick up every one of the seeds, or else you will repent it.' The birds paid no heed to the Swallow's words, and by and by the hemp grew up and was made into cord, and of the cords nets were made, and many a bird that had despised the Swallow's advice was caught in nets made out of that very hemp. 'What did I tell you?' said the Swallow - Aesop

When I got out of jail, I kind of appreciated pot more than I ever had in my life. They used to call me Two Puffs: Two puffs, I'm home. I watch TV. Then I'd sleep like a baby - OJ

Racketeers who developed a billion-dollar illicit drug-industry, using opium that had to be smuggled into the country, should have no difficulty at all in developing a five-billion-dollar racket with marihuana - provided only that the press can be induced to stimulate curiosity by giving the drug publicity - Dr Henry Smith Williams Drug Addicts are Human Beings 1038

I’d always done a lot of sniffing glue as a kid. I was very interested in glue, & then I went to lager and speed, & I drifted into heroin because as a kid growing up everybody told me, ‘don’t smoke marijuana, it will kill you’ Irvine Warsh

When I came to New York in 1937, I didn't drink nor smoke marijuana. 'You gotta be a square muthafucka!' Charlie Shavers said and turned me on to smoking pot. Now, certainly, we were not the only ones. Some of the older musicians had been smoking reefers for 40 & 50 years. Jazz musicians, the old ones and the young ones, almost all of them that I knew smoked pot, but I wouldn't call that drug abuse - Dizzy Gilespie

Marijuana is one of the smartest plants in the world. It escapes captivity, adapts quickly to its environment, hides from police and has a lot of sex - Laurence Cherniak The Great Books of Hashish

I used to tell people that it would be impossible for us to do kind of show that we  did, week after week, and do drugs. While in fact the opposite was true - Al Franken

I advise any bashful young man to take hashish when he wants to offer his heart to any fair lady, for it will give him the courage of a hero, the eloquence of a poet, and the ardour of an Italian - Lousia May Alcott Perilous Play

Once upon a time there was a farm right across the Potomac, and they raised marijuana plants there, and they tore them down to build a little building called The Pentagon-- Dr James Munsch, medical consultant to the Bureau of Narcotics from 1930-62

     In her victory garden, the seeds grow all around
She plants, she dig, she's flipped her wig
Sweet Marijuana Brown - Barney Bigard Sextet Sweet Marijuana Brown

The Immortal Cab Calloway Sings  Reefer Man

I've got just what you need. Come on, sisters, light up on these weeds and get high and forget about everything.

The Russian Pot Revolution

Disneyland, Six Flags and even Wal-Mart have each killed more peoplethan marijuana has in all of recorded history - JC-M

 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

At this point it should be announced that most of the major (best and most famous too) poets, painters, musicians, cinéasts, sculptors, actors, singers and publishers in America and England have been smoking marihuana for years and years. I have gotten high with the majority of the dozens of contributors to the Don Allen Anthology of New American Poetry 1945-1960... -- Allen Ginsberg, "First Manifesto to End the Bringdown"

The chief cause of problems is solutions - Eric Sevareid

 

The partnership of Cannabis and man has existed now probably for ten thousand years – since the discovery of agriculture inthe Old World.

I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me - Hunter Thompson

 When you return to this mundane sphere from your visionary world, you would seem to leave a Neapolitan spring for a Lapland winter - to quit paradise for earth - heaven for hell! Taste the hashish, guest of mine - taste the hashish!-- Alexander Dumas, "The Count of Monte Cristo," 1844

I smoke two joints at night
I smoke two joints in the afternoon,

it makes me feel alright

Tom Lehrer phoned to ask us to a steak cookout. He served us some rather  large bowls of "grasspacho" (his own term and recipe) before moving to a table in the garden where the steaks were being grilled. I began to feel strange and told Eve that I thought we should go home. She agreed instantly and we made our way back through the house to the car at the curb. I said I did not think I could drive, could she? She was not sure, but would try. It was a new car, and she drove the eight or ten blocks to our house at less than ten miles an hour.-- BF Skinner, psychologist, 1965

It is outrageous to live in a society whose laws tolerate sending young people to life in prison because they grew, or distributed, a dozen ounces of marijuana- William F Buckley

There are a lot of prominent people, I'm not going to mention any names - Harrison Ford, Ted Turner - who smoke a lot of pot and need to stand up! I'm not going to mention names,I would never do that.-- Bill Maher, host of "Politically Incorrect"

An ye harm no one, do as ye will. This is the whole of the law.-- Wiccan Creed

 The Partnership For a Drug-Free America really isn't for a drug-free America. It's a lobbying arm for the liquor and prescription drug industries.

Forty million Americans smoked marijuana; the only ones who didn't like it were Judge Ginsberg, Clarence Thomas and Bill Clinton.-- Jay Leno

 I've never had a reason to be in a closet, except to get high or to grow something.

 The Perfect Joint Everytime

Marijuana will be legal some day, because the many law students who now smoke pot will some day become Congressmen and legalize it in order to protect themselves. You wouldn't believe how many people smoke pot. If anybody reading this would like to become mayor, believe me, there is a vast, untapped vote. Of course, you wouldn't want to be the Marijuana Mayor, so you'd have to make it a trick statute like; 'The Crippled Catholic Jewish War Children in Memory of Ward Bond Who Died for Your Bill to Make Marijuana Legal.' -- Lenny Bruce

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

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Possession of marijuana, yeah. I rolled two joints, stuck one behind each ear, had a beer in my hand and was going to my friend's house. I was on the street when a cop stopped me for having a beer in my hand. He reached up behind my ear and goes, "What's this?" I said, "Oops, that's a joint." Slapped the cuffs on me and marched me down to the police station.-- Bruce Willis, in a 1988 Playboy interview

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a Constitutional Amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth. -- Will Rogers

Smoking marijuana is more fun than drinking beer but a friend of ours got busted and they gave him thirty years
Maybe we should raise our voices - ask someone why but demonstrations are a drag besides we're much too high Phil Ochs

Republic... it means people can live free, talk free, 

By the tons [marijuana] is coming into this country -- the deadly, dreadful poison that racks and tears not only the body, but the very heart and soul of every human being who once becomes a slave to it in any of its cruel and devastating forms...."William Randolph Hearst

I was 12 years old and this was my first time smoking pot. I did it to rebel against my dad who had been cheating on my mom. After that, I questioned everything. I thought about how much information was being kept from me. I wondered how many other people lied to me. So here I am, five years later, still uncovering truth and confronting cowards. Thanks, dad, I love you.-- Vicky Molina quoted in Adbusters

With dope there's hope, with booze you lose.

some fear

I think it's a bit presumptuous of people to think that they can improve on God's handiwork. Why spend millions to find outwhat anybody who smokes cannabis already knows –that it helps people?-- Free Rob Cannabis, UK cannabis activist  

At one point consciousness-altering devices like the microscope and telescope were criminalized for exactly the same reason that psychedelic plants were banned in later years. They allow us to peer into bits & zones of Chaos- Timothy Leary 

hit it or pass it - In 30 years of close observation, I've never seen an act of violence, aggression, jealousy or egomania triggered by use of marijuana. In fact, marijuana seems to possess all of the benevolence, grace, clarity, insightfulness and calm that the state-sanctioned drug - booze - so sadly lacks -- Tom Robbins