Art Linkletter Quotes

The more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall.

I had always turned it down-to me, smoking pot was absolutely the worst thing in the world. I thought of it as an addiction, and all my friends who smoked it, I felt they really needed help.

Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use any other drug with special horror.

If there is a good case to be made for the illegalization of drugs, there is a better case to be made for the illegalization for tobacco and alcohol.

Marijuana doesn’t produce dependence and it doesn’t produce overdose deaths.

No one should do drugs thinking that they will make a great record. That's not the way to go, for sure.

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.

People say you can abuse marijuana. You can abuse cheeseburgers. Does that mean we should close Burger Kings.

People are sick of experts.

Democrats, myself included, tend to respect and value expertise and find that people who have established a record of accuracy and developed a model that's proven to be beneficial over time should be people accorded great deference when they opine on a topic that they have demonstrated past mastery over.

I don't like to use - I never use - any kind of drugs to help me in my fights. I don't like that. I don't like drugs.

When you have someone who's been there and done it at the highest level, at a World Cup, you have to respect him.

If you smoke, plain and simple, stop smoking. If you drink, plain and simple, stop.

I'm not some schmuck they just hired and threw down in the Performance Center and gave him an entrance or anything that like. I've been around enough and have enough experience; I know what I'm doing pretty much.

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.

Marijuana is a gateway drug that can lead to awful things, like Phish getting back together.

So many things can get you high, I'm gonna try them all just once before I die.

Trust one who has gone through it.

I did. It's not something that I'm proud of. It was a mistake as a young man, but you know? I mean not going to -- I never understood that line. The point was to inhale. That was the point.

I actually didn't like that feeling of being out of touch because what I do depends on being in touch. But it's fun to talk about. That's one of the real dangers of drugs: they're too much fun to talk about.

There's a price you pay for drinking too much, for eating too much sugar, smoking too much marijuana, using too much cocaine, or even drinking too much water. All those things can mess you up, especially, drinking too much L.A. water ... or Love Canal for that matter. But, if people had a better idea of what moderation is really all about, then some of these problems would ... If you use too much of something, your body's just gonna go the "Huh? ... Duh!"

There is not a single person alive who could keep a straight face and say "Oh yeah it's healthy, the reason I use drugs and alcohol and booze is because it's healthy!"

It always takes a man that never made much at any thing to tell you how to run your business, though. Like these college professors without a whole pair of socks to his name, telling you how to make a million in ten years, and a woman that couldn't even get a husband can always tell you how to raise a family.

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