SableZen
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Sharing some relevant quotes I found amusing or just good.... feel free to add any you like. "If you substitute marijuana for tobacco and alcohol, you'll add 8 to 24 years to your life." -- Jack Herer
"Marijuana gives rise to insanity -- not in its users but in the policies directed against it. A nation that sentences the possessor of a single joint to life imprisonment without parole but sets a murderer free after perhaps six years is in the grips of a deep psychosis." -- Eric Schlosser
"The only dead bodies from marijuana are in the prisons and at the hands of the police." -- Jack Herer
Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could. -- William F. Buckley, Jr.
Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain as marijuana. The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two but can't remember what they are. -- Matt Lauer
"Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself; and where they are, they should be changed. Nowhere is this more clear than in the laws against possession of marihuana in private for personal use... Therefore, I support legislation amending Federal law to eliminate all Federal criminal penalties for the possession of up to one ounce [28g] of marihuana." -- Jimmy Carter
Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth. -- Will Rogers
Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes crimes out of things that are not crimes. -- Abraham Lincoln
For every prohibition you create you also create an underground. -- Jello Biafra
Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water. -- W. C. Fields
Prohibition has made nothing but trouble -- Al Capone
Prohibition? HA! They tried that in the movies and it didn't work -- Homer Simpson
One's condition on marijuana is always existential. One can feel the importance of each moment and how it is changing one. One feels one's being, one becomes aware of the enormous apparatus of nothingness -- the hum of a hi-fi set, the emptiness of a pointless interruption, one becomes aware of the war between each of us, how the nothingness in each of us seeks to attack the being of others, how our being in turn is attacked by the nothingness in others. -- Norman Mailer
They lie about marijuana. Tell you pot-smoking makes you unmotivated. Lie! When you're high, you can do everything you normally do, just as well. You just realize that it's not worth the fucking effort. There is a difference. -- Bill Hicks
Marijuana is self-punishing. It makes you acutely sensitive, and in this world, what worse punishment could there be? -- P. J. O'Rourke
If adults want to take such chances (with marijuana) that is their business. -- Ronald Reagan
Marijuana is the finest anti-nausea medication known to science, and our leaders have lied about this consistently. [Arresting people for] medical marijuana is the most hideous example of government interference in the private lives of individuals. It's an outrage within an outrage within an outrage. -- Peter McWilliams
"Instead of taking five or six of the prescriptions, I decided to go a natural route and smoke marijuana." --Melissa Etheridge
"Is marijuana addictive? Yes, in the sense that most of the really pleasant things in life are worth endlessly repeating." -- Richard Neville
The War on Drugs was never, ever about drugs, it's about bigotry. You can change the law, but changing the prejudice and fear of bigots who hide behind drug war rhetoric is a far more challenging task. It's time to expose the Drug War and the bigots who promote the ideology of 'Zero Tolerance.' -- Steve Kubby
"Orbis terrarum est non altus satis." (The world is not high enough) -- James Bong
