It’s no secret that all walks of life enjoy using cannabis. Whether you’re a world-renowned poet, or a farmer from Kentucky living your life, marijuana can benefit you. Keep these famous quotes in mind when someone tries to claim pot is bad for you.
The Best Weed Quotes by Famous People
“Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.”
Bob Marley
“I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong?”
Willie Nelson
“It really puzzles me to see marijuana connected with narcotics dope and all of that stuff. It is a thousand times better than whiskey. It is an assistant and a friend.”
Louis Armstrong
“The biggest killer on the planet is stress and I still think the best medicine is and always has been cannabis.”
Willie Nelson
“I have always loved marijuana. It has been a source of joy and comfort to me for many years. And I still think of it as a basic staple of life, along with beer and ice and grapefruits -and millions of Americans agree with me.”
Hunter S. Thompson
“Is marijuana addictive? Yes, in the sense that most of the really pleasant things in life are worth endlessly repeating.”
Richard Neville
“Marijuana is a useful catalyst for specific optical and aural aesthetic perceptions. I apprehended the structure of certain pieces of jazz and classical music in a new manner under the influence of marijuana, and these apprehensions have remained valid in years of normal consciousness.”
Allen Ginsberg
“It is beyond my comprehension that any humane person would withhold such a beneficial substance from people in such great need simply because others use it for different purposes.”
Steven Gould
“If you substitute marijuana for tobacco and alcohol, you’ll add eight to 24 years to your life.”
Jack Herer
18. “Why use up the forests which were centuries in the making and the mines which required ages to lay down, if we can get the equivalent of forest and mineral products in the annual growth of the hemp fields?”
Henry Ford
“When I was a kid I inhaled frequently. That was the point.”
Barack Obama
“Make the most of the Indian Hemp Seed and sow it everywhere.”
George Washington
“If the words “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” don’t include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn’t worth the hemp it was written on.”
Terence McKenna
“Stop killing each other man. Let’s just smoke a blunt.”
Tupac
“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
“When you smoke herb, it reveals you to yourself.”
Bob Marley
“And God said, ‘Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree.”
Genesis 1:29
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