Cannabis Quotes - 4

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"The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture."
- Thomas Jefferson

"When governments fear the people there is liberty. When the people fear the government there is tyranny."
- Thomas Jefferson

"Freedom is that faculty that enlarges the usefulness of all other faculties."
- Immanuel Kant

"There is no greater tyranny, than that which is perpetrated under the shield of law and in the name of justice"
- Montesquieu

"When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other in order that the people may require a leader."
- Plato

"If you look at the drug war from a purely economic point of view, the role of the government is to protect the drug cartel."
- Milton Friedman, Economist, Nobel Prize winner

"Laws that threaten do not persuade."
- Seneca

"The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this country is closely connected with this."
- Albert Einstein, "My First Impression of the USA," 1921

"Looking at fires when high, by the way, especially through one of those prism kaleidoscopes which image their surroundings, is an extraordinarily moving and beautiful experience."
- Carl Sagan

"So long as large sums of money are involved - and they are bound to be if drugs are illegal - it is literally impossible to stop the traffic, or even to make a serious reduction in its scope."
- Milton Friedman, Economist, Nobel prize winner, "Tyranny of the Status Quo"

"Our emphasis here is based not only on the growing seriousness of drug-related crimes, but also on the belief that relieving our police and our courts from having to fight losing battles against drugs will enable their energies and facilities to be devoted more fully to combatting other forms of crime. We would thus strike a double blow: reduce crime activity directly, and at the same time increase the efficacy of law enforcement and crime prevention."
- Milton Friedman, Economist, Nobel prize winner, "Tyranny of the Status Quo"

"Our current drug crisis is a tragedy born of a phony system of classification. For reasons that are little more than accidents of history, we have divided a group of nonfood substances into two categories: items purchasable for supposed pleasure (such as alcohol), and illicit drugs.”
- Biologist Stephen J. Gould, "Taxonomy as Politics," in Dissent, 1990

"Persons using this narcotic [marijuana] smoke the dried leaves of the plant, which has the effect of driving them completely insane. The addict loses all sense of moral responsibility. Addicts to this drug, while under its influence, are immune to pain, and could be injured without having any realization of their condition. While in this condition they become raving maniacs and are liable to kill or indulge in any form of violence to other persons, using the most savage methods of cruelty without, as said before, any sense of moral responsibility… If this drug is indulged in to any great extent, it ends in the untimely death of its addict."
- Emily Murphy, campaigner for cannabis prohibition in Canada, 1923

"In fact, marijuana lowers your stress level and lowers your body temperature. It actually seems that people live longer if they use it. If you substitute marijuana for tobacco and alcohol, you'll add 24 years to your life."
- Jack Herer

"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."
- Carl Sagan
 

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