Ramsey Clark -

 Global Marijuana March Boulder 2007 -

Being high is one of the most pleasant sensations available to mankind. Every day is Saturday. It is to be like a child; to perceive events with clarity; to look into the gates of paradise; to completely enjoy whatever you might be doing; to smile so hard that your jaw muscles get tired. Being high is to laugh at the silliest things; to understand things that have seemed absurd before; to have the aloofness of a cat; to afford a kinship with god.
To be intoxicated with marijuana makes every superlative seem within your grasp. Being high makes life seem terribly good. Being high is simply grand     John Rosevear

- William Drake -

 "Our youth can not understand why society chooses to criminalize a
behavior with so little visible ill effect or adverse social impact...
These young people have jumped the fence and found no cliff.
And the disrespect for the possession laws fosters a disrespect for laws and the system in general... On top of this is the distinct impression among the youth that some police may use the marihuana laws to arrest people they 
don't like for other reasons, whether it be their politics, their hair
style or their ethnic background."

"Federal and state laws (should) be changed to no longer make it a crime to possess marijuana for private use." 
"State laws should make the public use of marijuana a criminal offense punishable by a $100 fine. Under federal law, marijuana smoked in public would merely be subject to seizure."
-Richard Nixon's rejected 1972 Marijuana Commission Report

Prohibition is a new form of tyranny by the old over the young. You have the adult with a cocktail in one hand and a cigarette in the other saying `you cannot' to the child.      This is untenable - Anthropologist Margaret Mead  The Dick Cavett Show

Jeff Christen-Mitchell

Legalize it! Decriminalize it! Legalize your herb, from creation.    Legalize the Ganja Flower, the Ganja Seed,
the Ganja Plant, the Ganja Weed…Laws of man are of the serpent, all that remains are the chains. Thou shalt not walk,
thou shalt not talk, thou shalt not come in, but who amongst sincerely believe to walk along the grass is a sin?
GT Moore“Ganja Flower”  - World of Ganja -

 Kate -

Guys who drink a lot of beer the night before a game get hangovers.
You don't get a hangover from marijuana - Mark Stepnoski                 Former Dallas Cowboy & Texas Activist

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.
- Dr Meredith, in Louisa May Alcott's "Perilous Play", 1869

YOU CAN LAWFULLY POSSESS & SMOKE MARIJUANA FOR YOUR OWN
INDIVIDUAL & RECREATIONAL USE IN 9 STATES

 Robert Mitchum -

The worst thing about smoking marijuana
is some people that don't smoke

My criminal record was blank. They're holding me because I forgot to dump my bag coming from Mexico, and there was a joint the size of a toothpick. That was a threat to the national security?

-- Carlos Santana, musician, on his 1991 marijuana arrest - Billy Idol -


 

Josh said we might not feel it (marijuana) the first time, but Donna and I proved him wrong. He said we had to "Hold it in, ay?" And we did . . . six times! Diary, it was amazing. Talk about feeling relaxed and warm and a little bit .  sexy                - Laura Palmer's Secret Diary  Twin Peaks

“Have you ever met that funny reefer man? If he says he swam to china.  Sell you South Carolina, than you know your talking to that reefer man.  If he says he walks the ocean, anytime he takes a notion, than you are talking to that
funny reefer man!      - Cab Calloway “Reefer Man" - Not a fucking dime to the US government - Jack Herer -


Ha! what means this sudden thrill? A shock, as of some unimagined vital force, shoots without warning through my entire frame, leaping to my fingers' ends, piercing my brain, startling me till I almost spring from my chair. I could not doubt it. I was in the power of the hasheesh influence - Fitz Hugh Ludlow, 1855

MM: 'Hey, you got a joint?'
WW: 'No, not on me, man...'
MM: 'You'd be a lot cooler if you did...'
-- Dazed and Confused...Matthew McConnaughey to Wiley Wiggins:

Let it be well understood then, by worldly and ignorant folk, curious of acquaintance with exceptional joys, that they will find in hashish nothing miraculous, absolutely nothing but the natural in a superabundant degree. The brain and the organism upon which hashish operates will only give their ordinary and individual phenomena, magnified, it is true, both in quantity and quality, but always faithful to their origin.
- Charles Baudelaire  Tales of Hashish

 

A friend of mine who has spent time with the Pygmies says that for such activities as the patient stalking and hunting of mammals
and fish they prepare themselves through marijuana
intoxication, which helps to make the long waits, boring
to anyone further evolved than a Komodo dragon,
at least moderately tolerable.
Ganja is, he says, their only cultivated crop
- Carl Sagan  The Dragons of Eden

  

 Claire Wolfe -

Wouldn't you know it, this is the best I have ever felt in my life, and it's illegal
-- Detective Fish, in Barney Miller, after eating pot brownies

Ha! what means this sudden thrill? A shock, as of some unimagined vital force, shoots without warning through my entire frame, leaping to my fingers' ends, piercing my brain, startling me till I almost spring from my chair.I could not doubt it. I was in the power of the hasheesh influence.- Fitz Hugh Ludlow, 1855

 Worldwide cannabis culture demands an official apology from the UN and world governments, that they acknowledge the war on cannabis and cannabis consumers was a vicious, murderous bigotry with no legitimate social or health concerns whatsoever .

-Marc Emery   Cannabis Culture

I have long believed that the laws regarding marijuana are too harsh. Those who keep pot for their own personal use
should not be treated as criminals.

- Ann Landers

According to a report published by NIDA last year, Utah Power and Light actually 'spent $215 per employee per year less on the drug abusers in health insurance benefits than on the control group.' Those who tested positive at Georgia Power had a higher promotion rate than the company average. Moreover, Georgia workers testing positive only for marijuana (about 35 percent of all positives) exhibited absenteeism some 30 percent lower than average. - Scientific American

"Well, they'll stone ya when you're trying to be so good,They'll stone ya just a-like they said they would.They'll stone ya when you're tryin' to go home.  Then they'll stone ya when you're there all alone.But I would not feel so all alone,
Everybody must get stoned - Bob Dylan Rainy Day Women #12

Drug dealers don't really sell drugs. Drug dealers offer drugs. I'm 30 years old, ain't nobody ever sold me drugs. Ain't nobody ever sold nobody in this room some drugs. Were you ever in your life not thinking about getting high and somebody sold you some fucking drugs? Hell, no. Drugs dealers offer drugs. They go 'hey man, you want some smoke, you want some smoke?' You say no, that's it! Now Jehovah's Witnesses on the other hand...- Chris Rock
 

Later this year I will celebrate 4 decades of recreational
and/or medicinal use of reefer.
Should I say R&D? In that time I have never experienced adulterated pot, one of the prohibitionists dubious claims for hazard.

About 15 years ago during a successful career and copious smokeage, the idea of addiction, or dependency if you will, prompted me to quit. Nine months later having determined that it did not change me personally, and having found a bag in my wife's purse, I fired up again because I enjoyed it. An interesting note, is that one of the conditions of pot use is the theoretical distortion of depth perception and time. During my first week of quit I found my mind to wander and while driving I'd find myself  losing concentration and some control. Conclusion? That one adapts to the alleged distorting effects and later must adapt back. No harm no foul, merely part of the game.

Yeper. forty years of toking. Alienated from phoney friends and ignorant family at times. One aspect was to have earned the suspicion of law enforcement. I do have a great respect for the badge inspite of its stains from prohibition. There is in life good, bad, and then there's the law.

A balance exists though. As aggressive as a small percentage of fascist cops may be, the courts often display intelligence and sanity. The District Attorneys and Judges can be very fair.

With so much rabid reefer madness there are shining examples where some Federal Judges refuse to try Drug Crimes on principle.

I am of course engaging in a perfect orgy of Miss Green & can hardly see straight right at this minute, whoo! 3 bombs a day.-- Jack Kerouac

There are two kinds of people, those that divide people into two kinds and those that don't' Let us all be one kind people. Myself, I am an Atheist, or a lifeist. Every day is a gift, worshiping all life. Somewhat humorously, yet proudly, I call myself a drug addict as well. Not being unhappy, remorseful or spiritual, I've found Narcotics Anonymous destructive. Looking for answers outside yourself seems a mistake. Addiction woes came from your own misthinking and may only be resolved by reordering the thought processes. I'm thankful to be an addict and not an alcoholic, gambler or Christian. I have the courage of my convictions, and my acquittals.

There is a brotherhood of tokers, an undeniable fellowship. Cannabis use promotes the spirit of fellowship. Gentle, respectful and harmful to no one, yet persecuted. Things don't change much in two thousand years, just the uniforms.

Why that stuff [marijuana] should be illegal is beyond me. It's so benign compared to alcohol. When you come right down to it, alcohol destroys your body and makes you do violent things. With grass you sit back and enjoy life. I don't smoke dope anymore. I'm in the 12-step program so I can't do any of that. Anyhow, that's my take on it. People say, 'Well, you shouldn't talk like that. They'll nail ya.' What do I care? I'm not carrying, I don't use. What are they gonna nail me for – talking too much? -- Larry Hagman, star of "Dallas" and "I Dream of Jeannie"

I'm a big fan of Mexican smoke. All Marijuana works. There's an obvious
preference for Indica or KB (Kind Bud).

 Schools nowadays are run like prisons with lock-downs, contraband searches, pee tests and even metal detectors. High Schools, like Northwest in Jefferson County, Missouri, are even built from prison plans. The students should get used to it, our rate of incarceration ( the word comes from Carcer, the name of ancient Rome's main prison) is five times the rate it should be with a quarter of the world's prison and jail population and still growing. It's not about any kind of justice in many states, it's an industry, with privately run prisons being erected rapidly. One of three counties in these united states have a prison, with the exception of Florida with 3 of 4 containing one. A native Californian of 37 years ( you can have my share ) it is heartening to see that Florida has eclipsed it as the strangest state.

 Those who dance are considered insane by those who can't hear the music     George Carlin
 Esquire magazine on marijuana 1992 - Dr Grinspoon on marijuana -
  

 

 

 

When you leave home with one lighter and come home with three the road trip to your friends was a good one.

-- Dog8mybag

 

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Marijuana is like sex: If I don't do it every day I get a headache.-- Willie Nelson

I'm for legalizing marijuana. Why pick on those drugs? Valium is legal. You just go to a doctor and get it and overdose on it what's the difference? Prozac, all that stuff, so why not marijuana?
Who cares? It's something that grows out of the ground - why not? Go smoke a head of cabbage. I don't care what you smoke.- Howard Stern

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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

 

 

I say we legalize drugs, strip them of their outlaw glamor so kids aren't as attracted to them, regulate their price so they're no longer a viable commodity for the disenfranchised, tax the shit out of them, and give all of us a kick-back that we can then spend on cigarettes, booze and coffee.

-- Dennis Miller, comedian, "Dennis Miller Live"

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Instead of taking it away from the soldiers, we ought to give it to the negotiators in Paris Bob Hope, 

 

How dare we have a culture that bans drugs,that says that heroin and marijuana are illegal, while we dope kids with Ritalin?

-- Camille Paglia, 1995 Playboy Interview

 

There are only two kinds of smugglers: those who need fork lifts and those who don't. -- Thomas Forcade, founder of "High Times"

Look, I have nothing to hide, weed is much,much less dangerous than alcohol. Alcohol can have a tendency to make people aggressive, alcohol is a big killer. It’s pretty rare that you hear of a car accident happening because a guy is stoned. Or a guy went out and started a huge fight because he had one too many puffs on a joint.

-- Johnny Depp, June 2001 interview with Film Review Magazine