Louis Armstrong Quotes

I know you're supposed to tell kids not to do drugs, but, kids, do it! Do weed! Don't do the other stuff, but weed is good

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

I'd rather have my kid smoking pot than drinking.

I don't think [pot] is more dangerous than alcohol.

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 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 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

I'm not saying pot is a bad thing. I know plenty of people who should be smoking pot. I'm just not one of those people. I don't think it would be the best drug for me. What am I going to do, start doing drugs at my age? It's a little late. I'm a mother of two. It's probably not the best idea for me to start getting into it now.

I was hiding out from the celebrity thing, I was smoking way too much [marijuana].

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...

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

I went to Vietnam, and I was there for a long time. [Using marijuana] made the difference between staying human or, as Michael Douglas said, becoming a beast.

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

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

Permanent brain damage is one of the inevitable results of the use of marijuana.

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

Hey, ay, ay, ay...smoke weed everyday.

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

I smoked marijuana for 50 yearsIt opened my mind to a lot of things, and now its active ingredient, THC, relaxes me and eases my arthritis pain. I've concluded that marijuana should be legal

I'm not a great pothead or anything like that... but weed is much, much less dangerous than alcohol.

In my neighborhood - West 121st Street in New York, "white Harlem" - there were only two drugs: smack and marijuana. By the time I was 13, some friends and I were using marijuana fairly regularly. The Reefer Madness myth was still very strong then, but I'd been into jazz and those lyrics included so many casual references to pot that it was completely demystified for me.

And weed's not a drug - that's denial

I did experiment with marijuana when I was a youth.

I don't consider weed to be any worse than having a beer.