Chris Kilham Quotes

If you want to go somewhere where you can smoke medicinal weed, then you ought to be able to do that.

I believe that all marijuana is medical.

I think our marijuana policy in this country is absolutely nuts

When you consider America, there are hundreds of millions of people who have smoked marijuana illegally.

We've legalized marijuana recently. Medical marijuana, but the rest will come.

We have noted the appeal of Honorable Ambrosini about the decriminalizing of marijuana for medical use.

I think pot should be legal. I don’t smoke it, but I like the smell of it.

Well, as I understand it, the main supporters are beer companies and the pharmaceutical companies. I'd like them to show me the dead bodies from marijuana. But they can't because there aren't any.

There is absolutely no good reason – medical or law enforcement – that marijuana should not be legal.

Our government has the weirdest bias against cannabis [Marijuana]. There's no reason for everybody to be so afraid of it. It's not the antichrist the DEA makes it out to be. Industrial hemp is a very useful plant. I challenged the attorney general to get rid of the criminal stigma associated with hemp so we can look at it in terms of how it might be useful. And government has no business telling us what we can and can't use for pain relief.

Yes, cannabis is dangerous, but no more than other perfectly legal drugs. It's time for a rethink

I don't have a problem with states experimenting with [legalizing marijuana]. I think that's the role of states

It's high time to address research into medical marijuana. Our country has experimented with a variety of state solutions without properly delving into the weeds on the effectiveness, safety, dosing, administration, and quality of medical marijuana.

I would not have the Justice Department prosecuting and raiding medical marijuana users. It's not a good use of our resources.

And under the new guidelines issued by the Obama Administration, Federal agents will not pursue pot-smoking patients in states that allow medical marijuana. This new policy is called 'Don't Ask, Don't -- What Was I Talking About?'

I am not backing down on medical marijuana; I am doubling down.

Why is marijuana against the law? It grows naturally on our planet, serves a thousand different functions, all of them positive. To make marijuana against the law is like saying that God made a mistake.

People don't realize that almost two-thirds of the population in the United States lives in a state where either medical or recreational marijuana are now legal. Two-thirds of the country. I am looking at it as kind of a 10th Amendment, states'-rights issue.

I'm for legalizing marijuana. Why pick on those drugs? Valium is legal. You just go to a doctor and get it and overdose on it - what's the difference? Prozac, all that stuff, so why not marijuana? Who cares? It's something that grows out of the ground - why not? Go smoke a head of cabbage. I don't care what you smoke.

Even if one doesn't smoke pot, one has to see the benefits of decriminalizing it.

Marijuana is beneficial to many patients

I agree that marijuana laws are overdue for an overhaul. I also favor the medical use of marijuana -- if it's prescribed by a physician. I cannot understand why the federal government should interfere with the doctor-patient relationship, nor why it would ignore the will of a majority of voters who have legally approved such legislation.

If everyone smoked weed, the world would be a better place.

Marijuana was a new phenomenon when we started. Now it's for everyone - doctors, lawyers, presidents.

I am the representative of all the sick people and what they are doing to me is only the worst case right now, but there will be others. I am living on borrowed time anyway. I owe this part of my life to luck and modern medical science. But I can't imagine what the rest of it will be like if they won't let me use medical marijuana.