Becoming Quote by George Soros

Our nearly century-long experiment in banning marijuana has failed as abysmally as Prohibition did... In contrast, legalizing and taxing marijuana would bring in substantial…

— Nicholas D. Kristof

Very commonly substances are criminalized because they're associated with what's called the dangerous classes, you know, poor people, or working people.... Actually, the peak…

— Noam Chomsky

Marijuana was made illegal because of William Randolph Hearst, the big newspaper guy. He owned thousands of acres of timberland and he didn't want…

— Jesse Ventura

Why is marijuana against the law? It grows naturally on our planet, serves a thousand different functions, all of them positive. To make marijuana…

— Bill Hicks

Marijuana is illegal but has never caused any deaths from usage, Cigarettes kills millions & they are legal... Makes sense.

— Maicy Rasmus

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

— Sebastian Marincolo

The primary reason to outlaw marijuana is its effect on the degenerate races.

— Harry J. Anslinger

Marijuana legalization's income may help fund education, prevention and treatment programs for harder drugs. What's clear is that the four-decade-old U.S.-backed war on drugs…

— Andres Oppenheimer

It's ridiculous that we continue to incarcerate anyone for using a substance that actually causes far less damage than alcohol. No one goes out…

— Susan Sarandon

There is no logical basis for the prohibition of marijuana. $7.7 billion is a lot of money, but that is one of the lesser…

— Milton Friedman

I think that if you look at places like Amsterdam and places where pot is very legal they do well with it. There is…

— John Buffalo Mailer

The illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship…

— Carl Sagan