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Cannabis
- "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
- Legalize it, and I will advertise it.
- 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.
- Congress should definitely consider decriminalizing possession of marijuana... We should concentrate on prosecuting the rapists and burglars who are a menace to society.
- Dan Quayle U.S. Representative and Vice president (March 1977)
- Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
- I have never seen two people on pot get in a fight because it is fucking IMPOSSIBLE. "Hey, buddy!" "Hey, what?" "Ummmmmmm...." End of argument.
- 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.
- Make the most of the Indian hemp seed, and sow it everywhere!
- George Washington in a note to his gardener at Mount Vernon (1794), The Writings of George Washington, Volume 33, page 270 (Library of Congress)
- Washington also recorded his concern that the male and female plants be seperated:
- May 12-13 1765: Sowed Hemp at Muddy hole by Swamp.
- August 7, 1765: —began to seperate (sic) the Male from the Female Hemp at Do —rather too late.
- Some assert his interest in seperating the male and female plants is an indication that he may have used Indian hemp medicinally to treat his chronic tooth aches.
- 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 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.
- Jimmy Carter, U.S. President in a message to the U.S. Congress (1977)
- When I was in England I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn't like it. I didn't inhale.
- You bet I did -— and I enjoyed it.
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