Jeff Sessions Quotes

Having smoked a marijuana joint in 1968 is no big deal.

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

I like marijuana because it keeps me from killing people. And I think there are a lot of people out there who are just like me. The reason it's not legal is because most people get up in the morning and get high, then forget to go out and vote for it.

Marijuana is a much bigger part of the American addiction problem than most people - teens or adults - realize.

We need to prioritize our law enforcement efforts, and if somebody's gonna smoke a joint in their house and not do anybody else any harm, then perhaps there are other things that our cops should be looking at to engage in and try to clean up some of the other problems that we have in society that are appropriate for law enforcement to do.”

I grew up in the streets of Pueblo [Colorado]. I never knew marijuana was illegal,

There's been no top authority saying what marijuana does to you. I really don't know that much about it. I tried it once but it didn't do anything to me.

I don't do drugs, though. Just weed.

Marijuana is probably the most dangerous drug in America today.

Forty million Americans smoked marijuana; the only ones who didn’t like it were Judge Ginsberg, Clarence Thomas and Bill Clinton.

I'd say pot has been a break-even proposition for me.

Look, I have never made a secret of the fact that I have tried marijuana... About 50,000 times.

We are imprisoning or giving jail sentences to young people who are smoking marijuana.

I can't think of a society on Earth where people don't take drugs that any of us would want anything to do with.

Now it is one thing to say I say it that people shouldn't consume psychoactive drugs. It is entirely something else to condone marijuana laws, the application of which resulted, in 1995, in the arrest of 588,963 Americans. Why are we so afraid to inform ourselves on the question?

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.

I have smoked marijuana, but I no longer do. I went to art school in the 1960s so you can imagine what was going on. Yet my friends were the ones who said, "No, no, no, David, don't take those drugs." I was pretty lucky.

The whole thing about whether you smoke marijuana or not is so ridiculous. That and whether you protested the Vietnam War. Give me a break. Especially the marijuana thing.

I'm opposed to legalizing marijuana because it acts as a gateway drug.

I did a little bit of cocaine in the Eighties, courtesy of John Belushi, but fortunately I didn’t like it. But I smoked marijuana for 50 years and I don’t know where I’d be without it. It opened my mind and now it eases my arthritis. After decades of research I’ve concluded that marijuana should be legal and alcohol illegal.

I smoked pot in college and in the Army.

90% of the problem with marijuana is prohibition related, not use related.

I don't believe that laws against things that people do regularly, like safe and responsible use of marijuana, make any sense.

Rusty thinks I should smoke marijuana, and I did for a while, but it only makes me giggle.

While alcohol ... continues to wreak havoc in America, supported by a $6 billion-a-year alcohol industry advertising campaign extolling the joy of inebriation, the far less harmful drug of marijuana remains illegal and continues to ruin people's lives - only if they are caught possessing and convicted of that crime.