Cannabis Quotes - 3

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"Marijuana is ten times more dangerous than twenty years ago."
- Bill Clinton, 1992

"Please don't throw your shit at me... unless that shit resembles a bag of marijuana"
- Les Claypool

"I don't know what is marijuana. Perhaps I will try it when it will no longer be criminal. I will have my money for my fine and a joint in the other hand,"
- Jean Chretien, former Prime Minister of Canada, on the decriminalization of Marijuana

"Criminal penalties have clearly failed to prevent widespread use of marijuana... Law and health are two entirely separate issues."
- Bob DuPont, Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, President Nixon's 'drug czar', 1974 NORML annual conference

"Marijuana leads to homosexuality ... and therefore to AIDS."
- White House Drug Czar Carlton Turner, 1986

"Congress should definitely consider decriminalizing possession of marijuana.... We should concentrate on prosecuting the rapists and burglars who are a menace to society."
- U.S. Representative Dan Quayle, March 1977

"May 12-13: Sowed Hemp at Muddy hole by Swamp. August 7: Began to separate the Male from the Female at Do - rather too late."
- George Washington, Diary

"When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth, then all Americans are in peril."
- Harry S. Truman

"Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself; and where they are, they should be changed. Nowhere is this more clear to me than in the laws against possession of marihuana in private for personal use… Therefore, I support legislation amending Federal law to eliminate all Federal criminal penalties for the possession of up to one ounce of marihuana."
- President Jimmy Carter, Speech delivered to Congress, 1977

"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."
- Jimmy Carter, 1990

"The lesson has already been learned with alcohol prohibition. We tried to engineer an alcohol-free society and ended up with huge criminal enterprises, government corruption, children lured into organized crime and random violence that took the lives of countless innocent people."
- Kurt Schmoke, Mayor of Baltimore

"In any civilized society, it is every citizen's responsibility to obey just laws. But at the same time, it is every citizen's responsibility to disobey unjust laws."
- Martin Luther King Jr.

"Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others... he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current that sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.
- Robert F. Kennedy

"Permanent brain damage is one of the inevitable results of the use of marijuana." - Ronald Reagan, 1974

"Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves."
- Ronald Reagan

"Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one"
- Thomas Jefferson

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