Cannabis Quotes · Page 3

We shall, by and by, want a world of hemp more for our own consumption.

— John Adams

Hemp is Earth's number-one biomass resource; it is capable of producing 10 tons per acre in four months.

— Jack Herer

Think for yourself. Know what you're doing. Question authority.

— Timothy Leary

Hemp is of first necessity to the wealth & protection of the country.

— Thomas Jefferson

The owner of a local cannabis café told reporters George Clooney was no stranger there.

— George Clooney

Drugs induce paranoia and psychosis in people who have never taken any.

— Terence McKenna

“If you are breaking the law, it is better when someone other than the IRS finds out first.”

— Amit Chandel

We can't sell short the spiritual power of cannabis, especially when eaten.

— Terence McKenna

“...People who smoked cannabis were Other, and the cannabis they smoked threatened to let their Otherness loose in the land.”

— Michael Pollan

“The legalization of marijuana is not a dangerous experiment – the prohibition is the experiment, and it has failed dramatically, with millions…

— Sebastian Marincolo

When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn’t like it, and I didn’t inhale,…

— William J. Clinton

And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and…

— Bible

The amount of money and of legal energy being given to prosecute hundreds of thousands of Americans who are caught with a…

— William F. Buckley, Jr

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

— Dan Quayle

Hashish will be, indeed, for the impressions and familiar thoughts of the man, a mirror which magnifies, yet no more than a…

— Charles Baudelaire

My point of view, while extremely cogent, is unpopular. . . . That the repressive nature of the legalities vis-a-vis drugs are…

— Jack Nicholson

Our current drug crisis is a tragedy born of a phony system of classification. For reasons that are little more than accidents…

— Stephen Jay Gould

People make a decision on what they take based on whether or not it's legal. We give people at the age of…

— Luke Flanagan

“The empires collapsed to rubble. Skyscrapers dragged down to the ground. It was chaos. I could smell the end. It smells of…

— Moonshine Noire

Cannabis never killed anybody and it's use is widespread. You can"t stop it. The law defeats itself because all the efforts to…

— James Pickles

There are 100,000 total marijuana smokers in the US, and most are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz and…

— Harry J. Anslinger

Since you (US "drug tsar" McCaffrey) control a federal budget that has just been increased from $17.8 billion last year to $19.2…

— James P. Gray

I don't mind being an advocate for weed. It's not as bad as tobacco, alcohol or firearms, for that matter. There's no…

— Method Man

I was introduced to cannabis when I was 16. I realized the similarity to the mystical experiences I'd had - the enhancing…

— Amanda Feilding

I think the 'Just say no' mentality is so crazed. I saw a thing in a women's magazine the other day. 'He…

— Paul McCartney

“In view of the continuing widespread use drugs like marijuana, a due warning about the effects of such usage is imperative. Cannabis…

— Kevin R.D. Shepherd

“Are you interested in medical marijuana but have no idea what it is? In recent years, there is a growing cry for…

— Kurt

Hemp is a part of the cannabis plant, and it is very useful.

— Ziggy Marley

Music and herb go together. It's been a long time now I smoke herb. From 1960's, when I first start singing.

— Bob Marley

The biggest killer on the planet is stress and I still think the best medicine is and always has been cannabis.

— Willie Nelson

I never understood that line. The point was to inhale. That was the point.

— Barack Obama

“Cannabis is just way too healthy for a sick health care system”

— Sebastian Marincolo

Smoking helped put me in touch with the realm of the senses.

— Hugh Hefner

I sort of see [cannabis] as the pilot light of Gian consciousness.

— Terence McKenna

“We must go to the laboratory at once. I have some cannabis.”

— Brooklyn Ann

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

— Lester Grinspoon

[In] my era everybody smoked and everybody drank and there was no drug use

— Thomas A. Constantine

You smoke a joint and you're likely to kill your brother.

— Harry J. Anslinger

We have been terribly and systematically misled for nearly 70 years in the United States.

— Sanjay Gupta

A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.

— Abraham Lincoln