“When I was a kid, I inhaled frequently.”
“That record was, like, a process. I remember…I don’t smoke that much…. Well, my man who sold weed and shit came, and he said, “Man, you need — man, just smoke some weed.” I smoked some weed, and that’s how I finished “Izzo.””
“I have never made a secret of the fact that I have tried marijuana. About 50,000 times.”
“As for drugs — well, Gates was certainly not unusual there. Marijuana was the pharmaceutical of choice.” (From Gates: How Microsoft’s Mogul Reinvented an Industry — And Made Himself the Richest Man in America, by Stephen Manes)
The owner of a local cannabis cafe in Amsterdam once told reporters that Clooney was “no stranger there,” while shooting on location for Ocean’s Twelve.”
“I smoke a lot of pot when I write music.”
Steve Jobs is known for smoking weed to enhance creativity and promote relaxation.
“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.”
The first president of the US actually had his own hemp farm, and was known for separating out the most potent seeds to grow plants with higher concentrations of THC.
“When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.”
“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?”
“Two of my favorite things are sitting on my front porch smoking a pipe of sweet hemp, and playing my Hohner harmonica.” (from a letter written by Lincoln during his presidency to the head of the Hohner Harmonica Company in Germany)
‘Nuff said.
“I went through one period where I smoked a surprising, a really breathtaking, amount of grass almost every night.”
“Never give up the ganja.” (Morgan Freeman is known for referring to marijuana as “God’s own weed.”)
“Of course I know how to roll a joint.”
“Smoking helped put me in touch with the realm of the senses.”
“I think weed is the best drug on earth. […] Hollywood is a coke town, but weed is so much better.”
“Kush rolled, glass full — I prefer the better things.”
“It makes me feel the way I need to feel.”
“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.”
“When you return to this mundane sphere from your visionary world, you would seem to leave a Neapolitan spring for a Lapland winter — to quit paradise for earth — heaven for hell! Taste the hashish, guest of mine — taste the hashish!”
The Greek historian Herodotus was the first to make any mention of cannabis in Western literature: “The Scythians put the Seeds of this hemp under the bags, upon the burning stones; and immediately a more agreeable vapor is emitted than from the incense burnt in Greece. The Company extremely transported with the scent, howl aloud.”
“I think that marijuana should not only be legal, I think it should be a cottage industry.”
“Purple haze all in my brain…”
“Me and a friend of mine went up into the hills with two joints, the San Francisco foothills, and smoked these joints and just got so high and laughed and roared and went skipping down the streets doing funny things and just having a helluva time.” (on the first time he smoked marijuana)
“When I bring home my hard-earned pay, I spend my money all on Mary Jane.”
The Original Stoners.
“I smoke weed all day.”
“I’m kind of a weirdo, creative Valley Girl who smokes pot. Big deal.”
“I’m not a great pothead or anything like that…but weed is much, much less dangerous than alcohol.”
“I do like weed. I have a different outlook on marijuana than America does. My best friend Sasha’s dad was Carl Sagan, the astronomer. He was the biggest pot smoker in the world and he was a genius.”
“I was hiding out from the celebrity thing, I was smoking way too much dope, I was sitting on the couch and just turning into a doughnut.”
“I enjoy it once in a while. There is nothing wrong with that. Everything in moderation. I wouldn’t call myself a pot-head.”
Harrelson is an enthusiast and activist for the legalization of both marijuana and hemp.
Researchers found clay pipes with traces of cannabis in the garden of Shakespeare’s home in Stratford-on-Avon, which have been dated to the 17th century, contemporary with Shakespeare himself.
Defying the stereotype that stoners have no drive and/or are wasting their lives, according to Arnold, marijuana “is not a drug, it’s a leaf.”
Apparently, on August 28, 1964, Bob Dylan introduced the Beatles to marijuana.
“It wasn’t because I was excited about you. I think it may have had something to do with the joint I smoked before I came on.” (on her behavior on David Letterman in 1994) 