Post by Xadriic on Aug 4, 2006 9:26:32 GMT -5
I guess this would be here, because it's about the written word. Anyways, here are my favorites.
"Congress should definitely consider decriminalizing possession of marijuana... We should concentrate on prosecuting the rapists and burglars who are a menace to society."
- Dan Quayle U.S. Representative and Vice president (March 1977)
"Marijuana is taken by '.....musicians. And I'm not speaking about good musicians, but the jazz type...
- Harry J. Anslinger, Federal Bureau of Narcotics, 1948
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
Throughout 1971 Nixon kept up the drumbeat. "I want a Goddamn strong statement on marijuana," he told his high-level White House lieutenant Bob Haldeman, "I mean one that just tears the ass out of them." Somehow, it's not surprising to hear the President say, "You know, it's a funny thing, every one of the bastards that are out for legalizing marijuana is Jewish."
- Richard Nixon (Former President of the U.S.)
"A metaphysical herb who's smoke is no more disruptive than insight"
- Allen Ginsberg
"It really puzzles me to see marijuana connected with narcotics dope and all of that stuff.
It is a thousand times better than whiskey. It is an assistant and a friend."
- Louis Armstrong
"The biggest killer on the planet is stress and I still think the best medicine is and always has been cannabis."
- Willie Nelson
"If John Lennon is deported, I'm leaving too...with my musicians..and my marijuana."
- Art Garfunkel
"I do smoke, but I don't go through all this trouble just because I want to make my drug of choice legal. It's about personal freedom. We should have the right in this country to do what we want, if we don't hurt anybody. Seventy-two million people in this country have smoked pot. Eighteen to 20 million in the last year. These people should not be treated as criminals."
- Bob Marley
"Music and herb go together. It's been a long time now I smoke herb. From 1960s, when I first start singing."
- Bob Marley
"I think the 'Just say no' mentality is so crazed. I saw a thing in a women's magazine the other day. 'He smokes cannabis, what am I to do? He laughs it off when I try to tell him, he says it's not really harmful...' Of course you're half hoping the advice will be, 'Well, you know it's not that harmful; if you love him, if you talk to him about it,
tell him maybe he should keep it in the garden shed or something,' you know, a reasonable point of view. But of course it was, 'No, no, all drugs are bad. Librium's good, Valium's good. But cannabis, ooooh!' I hate that unreasoned attitude."
- Sir Paul McCartney
"How many murders, suicides, robberies, criminal assaults, holdups, burglaries and deeds of maniacal insanity it causes each year, especially among the young, can only be conjectured...No one knows, when he places a marijuana cigarette to his lips, whether he will become a joyous reveller in a musical heaven, a mad insensate, a calm philosopher, or a murderer..."
- Harry J Anslinger (Commissioner of the US Bureau of Narcotics 1930-1962 aka the biggest buzzkiller in history)
"Forty million Americans smoked marijuana; the only ones who didn't like it were Judge Ginsberg, Clarence Thomas and Bill Clinton."
- Jay Leno
"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
"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
"Marijuana is self-punishing. It makes you acutely sensitive, and in this world, what worse punishment could there be? "
- P. J. O'Rourke
"I think that marijuana should not only be legal, I think it should be a cottage industry. It would be wonderful for the state of Maine. There's some pretty good homegrown dope. I'm sure it would be even better if you could grow it with fertilizers and have greenhouses."
- Stephen King
"Nervousness was never something I would ever associate with the Beatles ever. A Hard Day's Night was relatively unscathed by marijuana, but even then they were quite relaxed about it."
- Richard Lester
"My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage."
- Peggy Noonan
"The greatest service that can be rendered to any country is to add a useful plant to its culture."
- Thomas Jefferson
"I smoke marijuana every chance I get."
- Allen Ginsberg, "America," 1956
"Cannabis is leading the way for a more holistic type of medical care, a general revolt against corporate rationed care and traditional pharmaceutical company approaches to medicine. Patients use marijuana to get off toxic drugs. They find fellowship in compassion clubs. They find empowerment in fighting against prohibition, standing up to police and demagogues. Our opponents can threaten our freedom, but they can't kill our spirit."
- Tod Mikuriya, 2001 --as quoted by Pete Brady
For reasons no one outside the Bush administration understands, the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy under director John Walters has been obsessed with marijuana. In November 2002, the office sent a letter to the nation's prosecutors declaring flatly, "Nationwide, no drug matches the threat posed by marijuana."
"Penalties against a drug should not be more dangerous 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 marijuana."
- Jimmy Carter
"The importation and sale of marijuana is condemned and punished as a serious crime, but we accept as legitimate the manufacture and sale of an infinitely more addictive and deadly drug: the nicotine in cigarettes that cost the lives of 390,000 American citizens last year."
- Jimmy Carter
"Hemp is not illegal because of marijuana; marijuana is illegal because of hemp. In the same sense, marijuana is not illegal because it is dangerous; marijuana is dangerous because it is illegal!"
- Glenwood Smith
"I now have absolute proof that smoking even one marijuana cigarette is equal in brain damage to being on Bikini Island during an H-bomb blast."
- Ronald Reagan (Former President)
"If adults want to take such chances (with marijuana) that is their business"
- Ronald Reagan (Former President)
"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
"Junk is not, like alcohol or weed, a means to increased enjoyment of life. Junk is not a kick. It is a way of life."
- William S. Burroughs
"Congress should definitely consider decriminalizing possession of marijuana... We should concentrate on prosecuting the rapists and burglars who are a menace to society."
- Dan Quayle U.S. Representative and Vice president (March 1977)
"Marijuana is taken by '.....musicians. And I'm not speaking about good musicians, but the jazz type...
- Harry J. Anslinger, Federal Bureau of Narcotics, 1948
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
Throughout 1971 Nixon kept up the drumbeat. "I want a Goddamn strong statement on marijuana," he told his high-level White House lieutenant Bob Haldeman, "I mean one that just tears the ass out of them." Somehow, it's not surprising to hear the President say, "You know, it's a funny thing, every one of the bastards that are out for legalizing marijuana is Jewish."
- Richard Nixon (Former President of the U.S.)
"A metaphysical herb who's smoke is no more disruptive than insight"
- Allen Ginsberg
"It really puzzles me to see marijuana connected with narcotics dope and all of that stuff.
It is a thousand times better than whiskey. It is an assistant and a friend."
- Louis Armstrong
"The biggest killer on the planet is stress and I still think the best medicine is and always has been cannabis."
- Willie Nelson
"If John Lennon is deported, I'm leaving too...with my musicians..and my marijuana."
- Art Garfunkel
"I do smoke, but I don't go through all this trouble just because I want to make my drug of choice legal. It's about personal freedom. We should have the right in this country to do what we want, if we don't hurt anybody. Seventy-two million people in this country have smoked pot. Eighteen to 20 million in the last year. These people should not be treated as criminals."
- Bob Marley
"Music and herb go together. It's been a long time now I smoke herb. From 1960s, when I first start singing."
- Bob Marley
"I think the 'Just say no' mentality is so crazed. I saw a thing in a women's magazine the other day. 'He smokes cannabis, what am I to do? He laughs it off when I try to tell him, he says it's not really harmful...' Of course you're half hoping the advice will be, 'Well, you know it's not that harmful; if you love him, if you talk to him about it,
tell him maybe he should keep it in the garden shed or something,' you know, a reasonable point of view. But of course it was, 'No, no, all drugs are bad. Librium's good, Valium's good. But cannabis, ooooh!' I hate that unreasoned attitude."
- Sir Paul McCartney
"How many murders, suicides, robberies, criminal assaults, holdups, burglaries and deeds of maniacal insanity it causes each year, especially among the young, can only be conjectured...No one knows, when he places a marijuana cigarette to his lips, whether he will become a joyous reveller in a musical heaven, a mad insensate, a calm philosopher, or a murderer..."
- Harry J Anslinger (Commissioner of the US Bureau of Narcotics 1930-1962 aka the biggest buzzkiller in history)
"Forty million Americans smoked marijuana; the only ones who didn't like it were Judge Ginsberg, Clarence Thomas and Bill Clinton."
- Jay Leno
"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
"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
"Marijuana is self-punishing. It makes you acutely sensitive, and in this world, what worse punishment could there be? "
- P. J. O'Rourke
"I think that marijuana should not only be legal, I think it should be a cottage industry. It would be wonderful for the state of Maine. There's some pretty good homegrown dope. I'm sure it would be even better if you could grow it with fertilizers and have greenhouses."
- Stephen King
"Nervousness was never something I would ever associate with the Beatles ever. A Hard Day's Night was relatively unscathed by marijuana, but even then they were quite relaxed about it."
- Richard Lester
"My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage."
- Peggy Noonan
"The greatest service that can be rendered to any country is to add a useful plant to its culture."
- Thomas Jefferson
"I smoke marijuana every chance I get."
- Allen Ginsberg, "America," 1956
"Cannabis is leading the way for a more holistic type of medical care, a general revolt against corporate rationed care and traditional pharmaceutical company approaches to medicine. Patients use marijuana to get off toxic drugs. They find fellowship in compassion clubs. They find empowerment in fighting against prohibition, standing up to police and demagogues. Our opponents can threaten our freedom, but they can't kill our spirit."
- Tod Mikuriya, 2001 --as quoted by Pete Brady
For reasons no one outside the Bush administration understands, the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy under director John Walters has been obsessed with marijuana. In November 2002, the office sent a letter to the nation's prosecutors declaring flatly, "Nationwide, no drug matches the threat posed by marijuana."
"Penalties against a drug should not be more dangerous 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 marijuana."
- Jimmy Carter
"The importation and sale of marijuana is condemned and punished as a serious crime, but we accept as legitimate the manufacture and sale of an infinitely more addictive and deadly drug: the nicotine in cigarettes that cost the lives of 390,000 American citizens last year."
- Jimmy Carter
"Hemp is not illegal because of marijuana; marijuana is illegal because of hemp. In the same sense, marijuana is not illegal because it is dangerous; marijuana is dangerous because it is illegal!"
- Glenwood Smith
"I now have absolute proof that smoking even one marijuana cigarette is equal in brain damage to being on Bikini Island during an H-bomb blast."
- Ronald Reagan (Former President)
"If adults want to take such chances (with marijuana) that is their business"
- Ronald Reagan (Former President)
"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
"Junk is not, like alcohol or weed, a means to increased enjoyment of life. Junk is not a kick. It is a way of life."
- William S. Burroughs