Cannabis Legalization Quotes

I think hemp is one of the greatest plants that God put in the ground, and I don't think anybody has the right to eradicate it. Just because somebody wants to get high with a joint, that's no reason to throw him in jail and take his damn belongings. He's just trying to get well. The mother - 's sick. That's why people drink beer when they come home from work. They're stressed out. That's all grass does. It's a big stress reliever.

The illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly mad and dangerous world.

The illegality of cannabis is outrageous.

I don’t know what life is like without cannabis, I hear there is such a thing.

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

I did smoke a joint and I did inhale. The bottom line is that's what it was in the '70s, that's what I did.

I don't think marijuana should be illegal.

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.

There is absolutely no good reason – medical or law enforcement – that marijuana should not be legal.

Regulating and taxing marijuana would simultaneously save taxpayers billions of dollars in enforcement and incarceration costs, while providing many billions of dollars in revenue annually.

Everyone should eat hashish, but only once.

Latin America wants to decriminalize at least marijuana (maybe more or course;) the US wants to maintain it. An interesting story. There seems to me no easy way out of this.

I’ve been hosting the Today Show for 22 years. When I started, marijuana was illegal, and you could smoke cigarettes anywhere you wanted.

Just as the process of repealing national alcohol prohibition began with individual states repealing their own prohibition laws, so individual states must now take the initiative with respect to repealing marijuana prohibition laws.

I also smoke a lot of pot, occasionally, every day.

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

Certainly our democracy is not going to fall if you legalize marijuana.

..Because when medical marijuana is fully accepted for what it is, we will see a phenomenon that makes Viagra's phenomenon seem limp.

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

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

I believe that all marijuana is medical.

Legalize it, and I will advertise it.

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 do like to smoke pot. I think it's good.

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.