25 Great Cannabis Quotes

Funny, thoughtful or just plain insightful, here are 25 notable cannabis-related quotes sure to make you think:
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1. “Is marijuana addictive? Yes, in the sense that most of the really pleasant things in life are worth endlessly repeating.”
   Richard Neville (Co-founder of the London Oz)
   
   
2. “The other day they asked me about mandatory drug testing. I said I believed in drug testing a long time ago. All through the sixties I tested everything.”
   Bill ‘Spaceman’ Lee (American Pitcher for Boston Red Sox)
   
   
3. “Of course I know how to roll a joint.”
   Martha Stewart (Businesswoman, Writer, Television Personality, Former model)
   
   
4. “I’d always done a lot of sniffing glue as a kid. I was very interested in glue, and then I went to lager and speed, and I drifted into heroin because as a kid growing up everybody told me,
   ​‘Don’t smoke marijuana, it will kill you.' ”
   Irvine Welsh (Scottish Novelist, Playwright, Short Story Writer)
   
   
5. “That is not a drug, it’s a leaf.”
   Arnold Schwarzenegger (38th Governor of California)
   
   
6. “Why is marijuana against the law? It grows naturally upon our planet. Doesn’t the idea of making nature against the law seem to you a bit . . . unnatural?”
   Bill Hicks (Stand-up Comedian)
   
   
7. “Make the most you can of the Indian Hemp seed and sow it everywhere.”
   George Washington (1st U.S. President)
   
   
8. “I used to smoke marijuana. But I’ll tell you something: I would only smoke it in the late evening. Oh, occasionally the early evening, but usually the late evening – or the mid-evening. Just the
   early evening, mid-evening and late evening. Occasionally, early afternoon, early mid-afternoon,
   or perhaps the late-mid-afternoon. Oh, sometimes the early-mid-late-early morning… But never at dusk.”
   Steve Martin (Actor, Comedian)
   
   
9. “The legalization of marijuana is not a dangerous experiment – the prohibition is the experiment, and it has failed dramatically, with millions of victims all around the world.”
   Sebastian Marincolo (Author)
   
   
10. “She’s not a pothead. That thing on her neck is a vase. And anyway, I’m all for legalization.
    ​After all, why should surrealism be illegal?”
    Jarod Kintz (Author)
    
    
11. “We talk to each other in code. We said that 420 was a special number. It was a time. It was a date. It was a symbol for what we did for passive resistance.”
    Rick Cusick (Co-founder & COO at Whoopi & Maya, Former Associate Publisher at
    High Times)
    
    
12. “A great writer is a blitzed illusionist of portable magic. You're welcome.”
    A.K. Kuykendall (Author)
    
    
13. “People say you can abuse marijuana. Well shit, you can abuse cheeseburgers too, you know?
    You don’t go around closing Burger King because you can abuse something.”
    Joe Rogan (Stand-up Comedian, Mixed Martial Arts, Commentator, Podcast Host, Businessman)
    
    
14. “If you grew up in the 60’s or 70’s, and didn’t do drugs I don’t trust you.”
    Danny Danko (Writer, Photographer , Senior Cultivation Editor at High Times magazine)
    
    
15. “Smoking helped put me in touch with the realm of the senses.”
    Hugh Hefner (Businessman, Magazine Publisher)
    
    
16. “Well, Stan, the truth is marijuana probably isn’t gonna make you kill people, and …it most likely isn’t gonna fund terrorism, but… Well son, pot makes you feel fine with being bored and… It’s when you’re bored that you should be learning some new skill or discovering some new science or… being creative. If you smoke pot you may grow up to find out that you aren’t good at anything.”
    Randy Marsh (South Park TV Show Character)
    
    
17. “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 (Scientist, Writer, TV Show Host)
    
    
18. “Everything is better with a bag of weed.”
    Stewie & Brian Griffin (Family Guy TV Show Characters)
    
    
19. “Federal and state laws (should) be changed to no longer make it a crime to possess marijuana for private use.”
    Richard Nixon (37th U.S. President)
    
    
20. “Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.”
    Bob Marley (Singer, Songwriter)
    
    
21. “Homer, I am getting really worried you are going overboard with this. We are out of clothespins, there are half-eaten cupcakes all around the house, and the curtains smell like doob.”
    Marge Simpson (The Simpsons TV Show Character)
    
    
22. “I think pot should be legal. I don’t smoke it, but I like the smell of it.”
    Andy Warhol (Artist)
    
    
23. “I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower.”
    Willie Nelson (Musician, Singer, Songwriter, Author, Poet, Actor, Activist)
    
    
24. "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?"
    Billy Bob Thornton (Actor, Filmmaker, Singer, Songwriter, Musician)
    
    
25. "I hope they legalize marijuana and when they do I’ll be the first fucking person in line to buy my pack of joints."
    Megan Fox (Actress, Model)