Bernie Sanders Quotes

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

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

If alcohol is legal, I don't see why people still have a ban on marijuana.

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

Marijuana is not a dangerous drug. What is dangerous is the War on Drugs…. 750,000 people a year are arrested for marijuana.

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

I really believe that we should treat marijuana like we treat beverage alcohol…. The War on Drugs is not working.

I really believe we should treat marijuana the way we treat beverage alcohol. I've never used marijuana and I don't intend to, but it's just one of those things that I think: this war on drugs just hasn't succeeded.

Let's end the unworkable marijuana prohibition and put our money where our mouth is. Let's solve the problems like border crime. We can do it with pot legalization.

I don't think marijuana should be illegal.

I would absolutely never use the federal government to enforce the law of using marijuana

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

… in light of the president's newfound boldness in speaking out about the unfairness of marijuana prohibition enforcement, he should take the opportunity to significantly reform federal marijuana policy and rearrange the agencies that have mismanaged it for so long.

Legalize it. Regulate it. Tax it... The arguments against marijuana today are the same as the arguments against liquor years ago.

Stoners just got a powerful new ally in the fight to legalize marijuana - conservative broadcaster Pat Robertson. He said it's time to 'you know, legalize it, tax it, and keep it away from Mel Gibson.'

The War on Drugs has been an utter failure. We need to rethink and decriminalize our marijuana laws.

To make marijuana against the law is like saying God made a big mistake.

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

We have great respect for Canada and Britain as well, and if they start shifting policies with regards to marijuana, it simply increases the rumblings in this country that we ought to re-examine our policy.

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.

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

Congress should definitely consider decriminalizing possession of marijuana. We should concentrate on prosecuting the rapists and burglars who are a menace to society.