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Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance. It is a species of intemperance within itself, for it goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation, and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded - Abraham Lincoln

   

I smoked pot in college and in the Army...Al Gore
    

The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this country is closely connected with this - Albert Einstein

I used to smoke marijuana. But I’ll tell you something: I would only smoke it in the late evening. Oh, occasionally the early evening, but usually the late evening - or the mid-evening. Just the early evening, midevening and late evening.
Occasionally, early afternoon, early midafternoon, or perhaps the late-midafternoon. Oh, sometimes the early-mid-late-early
morning. . . . But never at dusk     Steve Martin

      

 In India, Hindus of the Shivite sect are often seen stumbling out of their temples, stoned into the middle of next week, muttering the marijuana mantra, Bom-Bom-Mahadev, which translates as "Boom! Boom! Great Big God!" - a sensation that even irreligious pot smokers will vaguely recognize -- Robert Anton Wilson Sex & Drugs



I'd rather that England should be free than that England should be compulsorily sober.With freedom we might in the end attain sobriety, but in the other alternative we should eventually lose both freedom and sobriety - W.C. Magee  Archbishop of York 1868





In the course of history many more people have died for their drink and their dope than have died for their religion or their country - Aldous Huxley

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 Complete prohibition of all chemical mind changers can be decreed, but cannot be enforced, and tends to create more evils than it cures  - Aldous Huxley

 

Global ganja culture should now be going on the offensive. We have the prohibitionists on the run, we have momentum and public opinion on our side, and we must articulate a vision of how we want our culture and our plant defined in the new millennium - Dana Larsen  Cannabis Culture

 The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutionaltakes a little longer.-- Henry Kissinger

    
We cannot, by total reliance on law, escape the duty to judge right and wrong... There are good laws and there are occasionally bad laws, and it conforms to the highest traditions of a free society to offer resistance to bad laws, and to disobey them - Alexander Bickel     

 
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 In buying grass, there are four things to remember: First, you don't want to get caught; second, you don't want to get bad grass; third, you don't want to overpay; and we can't remember the fourth....... 


A Child's Garden of Grass

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
    

Marijuana is a useful catalyst for specific optical and aural aesthetic perceptions. I apprehended the structure of certain pieces of jazz and classical music in a new manner under the influence of marijuana, and these apprehensions have remained valid in years of normal consciousness - Allen Ginsburg

 

  I firmly believe that the war on drugs is doing more harm to our society than drug abuse itself George Soros

 

These guys who were doing dope, who danced together, who allowed the feminine to come out, were the more humane, like they left the villagers the women and children, alone.....The guys who were into booze were usually the angry ones Oliver Stone

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REEFER MADNESS: "If there were compelling scientific and medical data supporting marijuana's medical benefits that would be one thing, but the data is not there. The claim of one individual who has used marijuana does not medical data make. Marijuana has not gone through the test of science because it is a botanical and it doesn't have the same effect on every individual - Andrea Barthwell - Former Deputy Drug Czar

    Billy Cumpston

I'd like to apologize to all the pot lovers and growers out there, because if it wasn't for me and my movies pot would probably be legal by now - Tommy Chong

In the guise of complying with international drug control conventions, we are trampling all over international human rights conventions - Canadian Foundation on Drug Policy


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 Have you ever smoked pot?  No. And when I didn't, I didn't inhale Joe Clark Former Canuck PM

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 positiveonly for marijuana (about 35 percent of all positives) exhibited absenteeism some 30 percent lower than average - Scientific American

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The more people smoke herb, the more babylon fall - Bob Marley

 

I think pot should be legal. I don't smoke it, but I like the smell of it - Andy Warhol

 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      

 

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Reality is a crutch
for people who can't handle drugs..- Lily Tomlin



 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


Icon for the faithful, a windfall for the glib, a bonus for under-employed experts, a thrill for the naive, a whipping-boy for the ambitious, a tool for mystic explorers, a tantalizing mystery for scientists, a cash crop for peasants; hassles, joy, shouting, tranquility, apoplexy, fear, rebellionall wash over Western man in the presence of the little green weed - W Daniel Drake The Connoisseur's Handbook of Marijuana

We did call ourselves Vipers, which could have been anybody from all walks of life that smoked and respected gage. That was our cute little name for marijuana.. - Louis Armstrong
 
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 & quality, but always faithful to their origin - Charles Baudelaire The Poems of Hashish
 
 
Everything in moderation, including moderation
- Mark Twain
 
 
 
Abusus Non Tollit Usum
- Abuse is not an arguement against proper use

 

Omnis Usis Medicinalis Est
- All Use is Medicinal

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?

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Woody Harrelson Video - The History of Marijuana

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 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

As a smoker becomes more acquainted with the drug, he will find that many occasions lend themselves to a marihuana intoxication. He is always plagued by the law, however, and must filter his desires through the 'being caught' possibility before he can think of lighting up - J Rosevear Pot - A Handbook of Marijuana

Dr Burke, president of the American Historical Reference Society and a consultant for the Smithsonian Institute, counted seven early presidents as cannabis smokers: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, Andrew Jackson, Zachary Taylor and Franklin Pierce. 'Early letters from our founding fathers refer to the pleasures of hemp smoking,' said Burke. Pierce, Taylor and Jackson, all military men, smoked it with their troops. Cannabis was twice as popular among American soldiers in the Mexican War as in Vietnam: Pierce wrote to his family that it was 'about the only good thing' about that war - Chris Conrad Hemp: Lifeline to the Future

The devastating insights achieved when high are real insights; the main problem is putting those insights in a form acceptable to the quite different self that we are when we're down the next day. Some of the hardest work I've ever done has been to put such insights down on tape or in writing - Carl Sagen

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

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 The Poems of Hashish

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

 
While the State exists, there can be no freedom.
When there is freedom there will be no State - Lenin   State & Revolution

 


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


I told John [Lennon] how cannabis appeared to make it possible for me to 'hear' his music for the first time in much the same way that Allen Ginsberg had 'seen' Cezanne for the first time when he purposely smoked cannabis before setting out for the Museum of Modern Art, to determine if he could, with the help of marijuana, break through his incapacity to relate to Cezanne. John was quick to reply that I had experienced only one facet of what marijuana could do for music, that he thought it did wonders for composing and making music as well as listening to it - Dr Lester Grinspoon

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

Cannabis now grows throughout the world from near the Arctic Circle to the Equator, and from sea level to above 7,000 feet in the Himalayas. It is, in fact, the most widely distributed of all cultivated plants, a fact that attests to the plant's tenacity and adaptability as well as to its usefullness, versatility, and economic value - Mel Frank Marijuana ' Growers Insider's Guide 

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

Crime is contagious... if the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for the law - Justice Louis Brandeis 1928

Smoking is by far the most popular method of consuming resinous cannabis. Many people simply enjoy the flavor - Chris Conrad  Hemp for Health

 

     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 Man from Harlem," Cab Calloway, 1932

 

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.

-- Richard Evans Schultes and Albert Hoffman, "The Plants of the Gods," 1992

 

Don't do drugs because if you do drugs you'll go to prison, and drugs are really expensive in prison - John Hardwick San Quintin Inmate

 

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 in the morning,

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

it makes me feel alright

-- The Toys, "Two Joints"

 

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"

Decriminalization measures have had little or no impact on rates of use, but they have substantially reduced the social costs associated with the enforcement of marijuana laws. -- Canadian Centre for Substance Abuse

 

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

 

Everyone should eat hashish, but only once.
-- Salvador Dali, surrealist painter
 
 

 


 

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.

-- Bill Maher, host of Politically Incorrect

 

 

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.

-- Tommy Chong

 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

 

Cocaine gives a sense of exhilaration, heroin a glow, a warmth, and marijuana a sense of relaxation and ease. What then is wrong?-- US Federal Judge Robert Sweet, "New York Times," Dec 13 1989

 

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

 

Weren't you busted for dope in college?

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, 
go or come, buy or sell, be drunk or sober,
however they choose -- John Wayne


 
Icon for the faithful, a windfall for the glib, a bonus for under-employed experts, a thrill for the naive, a whipping-boy for the ambitious, a tool for mystic explorers, a tantalizing mystery for scientists, a cash crop for peasants; hassles, joy, shouting, tranquility, apoplexy, fear, rebellion all wash over Western man in the presence of the little green weed.
-- William Daniel Drake, Jr
  There seems to be no stopping drug frenzy once it takes hold of a nation. What starts with an innocuous HUGS, NOT DRUGS bumper sticker soon leads to wild talk of shooting dealers and making urine tests a condition for employment - anywhere Barbara Ehrenreich

            

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

          

Badges? We don't need no badges. I don't have to show you no stinking badges.

-- Gold Hat Bandito, "Treasure of the Sierra Madre"

             

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

 

 
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