John Walters Quotes

I agree with my colleagues, even the one who just preceded me, that marijuana is probably a dangerous drug, and I would not suggest that we do anything to encourage its use.

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

For the past several years, the Meth Caucus has worked to engage the Office of National Drug Control Policy on this issue. We have tried to get their attention that meth requires a strong, comprehensive Federal policy.

Marijuana. Boy, I thought that was just terrible. How could this great man do this to his life?

Just say no to drugs!

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.

Marijuana is used largely in the form of cigarettes, which cause delusions and produce insanity and often lead to atrocities that only a drugsoaked mind could conceive. Marijuana is a sinister drug that has only recently become available and popular among the younger element

While the collateral consequences of drugs such as cocaine are indisputably severe, they are not unlike those which flow from the misuse of other, legal, substances

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

I can tell you that the formula works, and works pretty well. You avoid criminals and violence, you refuse their mode of money that nourishes the cartels, and that is a great solution to the violence problem. In relation to the health problem, I have not ever heard of anybody dying from an overdose of marijuana.

Drugs kill, just like cancer. So don't smoke... tumors.

I've never really been interested in recreational drug use.

You know, when your poisoning your body night after night after night, you end up chipping a couple years off your life. I've always wanted to be able to do this and now that I am, it's hard to complain.

I think narcotics and alcohol, and even tobacco are enormously costly ingredients in our society.

So at the end of the day, our number 1 goal, our top priority, is to motivate American youngsters to reject the abuse of illegal drugs, tobacco and alcohol. All three of them are illegal behaviors.

There are many drugs that have many serious side effects and that are harmful to people. Marijuana is no different than that. And especially we should try to discourage young people from using marijuana.

The criminalization of marijuana did not prevent marijuana from becoming the most widely used illegal substance in the United States and many other countries. But it did result in extensive costs and negative consequences.

I've never heard of anybody smoking a joint and going on a rampage. It makes you lie around on the floor and look at the ceiling. What's wrong with that?

Our state's strategy on methamphetamine, and any other issue, is going to be a moving target.

By regulating marijuana, we can put black market drug dealers out of business and eliminate the rebellious allure that attracts young people.

Educating young people about the harms of drugs is essential.

The more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall.

Stay away from drugs. They're not worth it. I've tried, but there's none of them that's worth it.

I would equate the legalization of drugs to the moral equivalent of genocide.