Awesome Quotes and Sayings About Weed, Cannabis, & Marijuana
Quotations & Citations:
Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.
~Bob Marley
Marijuana is quite possibly the finest of intoxicants. It has been scientifically proven, for decades, to be much less harmful to the body than alcohol when used on a regular basis.
~Nick Offerman
They’ve outlawed the number one vegetable on the planet.
~Timothy Leary
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
When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.
~Bob Marley
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
If the words “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” don’t include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn’t worth the hemp it was written on.
~Terence McKenna
Of course I know how to roll a joint.
~Martha Stewart
Drugs induce paranoia and psychosis in people who have never taken any.
~Terence McKenna
When I was a kid I inhaled frequently. That was the point.
~Barack Obama
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 Sagan
I’d always done a lot of sniffing glue as a kid. I was very interested in glue, and then I went to lager and speed, and I drifted into heroin because as a kid growing up everybody told me, ‘don’t smoke marijuana, it will kill you’.
~Irvine Welsh
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
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
It makes me feel the way I need to feel.
~Snoop Dogg
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
Federal and state laws (should) be changed to no longer make it a crime to possess marijuana for private use.
~Richard M. Nixon
What was done with the seed saved from the India Hemp last summer? It ought, all of it, to have been sewn again; that not only a stock of seed sufficient for my own purposes might have been raised, but to have disseminated the seed to others; as it is more valuable than the common Hemp.
~George Washington
The first time I smoked was at home with my mother and stepfather; they were like, ‘If you are going to do this, we’d rather you did this with us.’
~Matt Damon
The amount of money and of legal energy being given to prosecute hundreds of thousands of Americans who are caught with a few ounces of marijuana in their jeans simply makes no sense – the kindest way to put it. A sterner way to put it is that it is an outrage, an imposition on basic civil liberties and on the reasonable expenditure of social energy.
~William F. Buckley Jr.
Why use up the forests which were centuries in the making and the mines which required ages to lay down, if we can get the equivalent of forest and mineral products in the annual growth of the hemp fields?
~Henry Ford
I wake up early in the morning and it feels so good. Smoking on some shit that you wish you could.
~Snoop Dogg
I don’t consider weed to be any worse than having a beer.
~James Franco
By any of the major criteria of harm – mortality, morbidity, toxicity, addictiveness and relationship with crime – cannabis is less harmful than any of the other major illicit drugs, or than alcohol or tobacco.
~Report of the British Police Foundation March 2000
Is marijuana addictive? Yes, in the sense that most of the really pleasant things in life are worth endlessly repeating.
~Richard Neville
I smoked pot in college, and in the Army…
~Al Gore
The legalization of marijuana is not a dangerous experiment – the prohibition is the experiment, and it has failed dramatically, with millions of victims all around the world.
~Sebastian Marincolo
That is not a drug, it’s a leaf.
~Arnold Schwarzenegger
When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn’t like it. I didn’t inhale and never tried it again.
~Bill Clinton
I engaged in behavior which was regrettable and demonstrated bad judgment. I’m 23 years old, and despite the successes I have had in the pool, I acted in a youthful and inappropriate way, not in a manner that people have come to expect from me.
~Michael Phelps