“Cannabis, the sensation that had reignited in America and helped bring hemp’s recreational usage back to prominence in a quiet, steady British counter-culture, had helped dispel much of the prejudice, entitlement and arrogance that had eluded the careful eye of Simon’s mother, undermining her care during the once-restlessly energetic yet gentle soul’s dedicated mothering of the studious boy. It took root in his thoughts and expectations. Bravado and projection replaced genuine yet understated confidence; much of that which had been endearing in him ceased to be seen, to his mother’s despondency. A bachelor of the arts, the blissfully apathetic raconteur left university, having renounced his faith and openly claiming to feel no connection, either socially or intellectually with the student life and further stu23dy. Personal failures and parental despair combined to sober the-21yr old frustrated essayist and tentative poet. Cannabis, ironically sought following the conclusion of his stimulant-fuelled student years, had finally levelled him out, and provided the introspection needed to dispel the lesser demons of his nature. Reefer Madness, such insanity – freely distributed for the mass-consumer audience of the west! Curiosity pushed the wealthy young man’s interest in the plant to an isolated purchase, and thence to regular use. Wracked by introspection, the young man struggled through several months of instability and self-doubt before readjusting his focus to chase goals. Once humorous, Reefer Madness no longer amused him, and he dedicated an entire afternoon to writing an ultimately unpublished critique of the film, that descended into an impassioned defence of the plant. He began to watch with keen interest, as the critically-panned debacle of sheer slapstick silliness successfully struck terror into the hearts of a large section of non-marijuana smoking people in the west. The dichotomy of his own understanding and perception only increased the profound sense of gratitude Simon felt for the directional change in which his life was heading. It helped him escape from earlier attachments to the advantage of his upbringing, and destroyed the arrogance that, he realised with shock, had served to cloud years of his judgement. Thus, positive energy led to forward momentum; the mental readjustment silenced doubts, which in turn brought peace, and hope.”
― Daniel S. Fletcher, Jackboot Britain
“The fact that, in the United States, there are people serving ten-year prison terms for growing marijuana plants in their backyards while Wall Street racketeers, who have defrauded millions of people and destroyed the global economy, walk free is a kind of bizarre hypocrisy that boggles my mind.”
― Mark Haskell Smith, Heart of Dankness: Underground Botanists, Outlaw Farmers, and the Race for the Cannabis Cup
“…hideous psychic fallout they’d all endured both in active marijuana-dependency and then in marijuana-detox: the social isolation, anxious lassitude, and the hyperself-consciousness that then reinforced the withdrawal and anxiety – the increasing emotional abstraction, poverty of affect, and then total emotional catalepsy – the obsessive analyzing, finally the paralytic stasis that results from obsessive analysis of all possible implications of both getting up from the couch and not getting up from the couch…”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
“Prison is for rapists, thieves, and murderers. If you lock someone up for smoking a plant that makes them happy, then you’re the fucking criminal.”
― Joe Rogan
“Do not allow any negativity or ugliness in your surroundings, or anybody at all, destroy your confidence or affect your growth as a blooming flower. It is very normal for one ugly weed to not want to stand alone.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“…ya can’t get to Nevada on five bucks and a bad heart…”
― Dave Matthes, Return to the Madlands
“I didn’t recognize it as such then, because I was only thirteen years old, but later I found it a bit ironic that my first time seeing a woman in all her form and glory and saggy drug-tainted tits, arrived at the same exact time as my first introduction to death.”
― Dave Matthes, Paradise City
“I Love LA, It has Beautiful Weather, Beautiful Women and Beautiful Weed; the three W’s you need.”
― Slicktor Victor Robinson
“Find What You love And Let it kill You.” — Charles Bukowski
“Seth’s official reason for still smoking weed is that he doesn’t want to, quote, go native, meaning end up one more suit on the train. (He in fact does wear a suit to work.) He wants them to, quote, live nicely, in a big house where family can come visit (kids, of course, in the back of his mind), but at the same time he doesn’t want to get less crazy. So he’ll smoke up before he goes for a run, and he’s found a dentist in Danbury who still gives gas.”
― David Gates
“When the wind likes a path, the weeds around that path will tremble all day long!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan
“all people were educated in this 21st century
though i’m unique then them,
because they were only educated and i’m..
weeducated..p.s though haven’t tried it yet. lol.”
― Weed Man, Bad Apple
“Don’t kill the high because you are low, Don’t.”
― Genereux Philip
“~Posters with torn edges hanging from rotten walls~
The doctor told me something once
she said
STOP DRINKING
I slapped her across the face with this
NO
I walked right out of that office
went right down to the hole
I told the bartender
WHISKEY, MOTHERFUCKER
he poured and he poured
and I slapped my money down on that bar
the man I had been driving around with
he just sort of sat there next to this hooker
she probably had something rotten
way down there between her legs
her eyes told of no soul
I emptied the bottle down my throat
and ordered some chips
the bartender told me
THEY’RE STALE
and I give him a
I DON’T FUCKIN’ CARE,
GIVE ME SOMETHIN’
He slid me a ham sandwich dripping with cheap low-fat mayo and said
ENJOY
I went back to my room
and talked all night
so much conversation
it turned the toilet bowl pale”
― Dave Matthes, Strange Rainfall on the Rooftops of People Watchers: Poems and Stories
“People are of two types of breed. One who is known for their good deeds & such folks’ need is very high as they care; other who is known for their greed & such persons grow like weed everywhere.”
― Anuj Somany
“It’s a good thing most people bleed on the inside or this would be a gory, blood-smeared earth.”
― Beatrice Sparks, Go Ask Alice
“I been getting high just to balance out the lows.” — Drake
“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
“We all need something to help us unwind at the end of the day. You might have a glass of wine, or a joint, or a big delicious blob of heroin to silence your silly brainbox of its witterings but there has to be some form of punctuation, or life just seems utterly relentless.”
― Russell Brand, My Booky Wook
“Federal and state laws (should) be changed to no longer make it a crime to possess marijuana for private use.”
― Richard M. Nixon
“The amount of money and of legal energy being given to prosecute hundreds of thousands of Americans who are caught with a few ounces of marijuana in their jeans simply makes no sense – the kindest way to put it. A sterner way to put it is that it is an outrage, an imposition on basic civil liberties and on the reasonable expenditure of social energy.”
― William F. Buckley Jr.
“They say weed is like pussy, you never know how good it is until you hit it”
― The Game
“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 marijuana 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 [28g] of marijuana.”
― Jimmy Carter
“Is marijuana addictive? Yes, in the sense that most of the really pleasant things in life are worth endlessly repeating.”
― Richard Neville
“In strict medical terms marijuana is far safer than many foods we commonly consume. For example, eating 10 raw potatoes can result in a toxic response. By comparison, it is physically impossible to eat enough marijuana to induce death. Marijuana in its natural form is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man. By any measure of rational analysis marijuana can be safely used within the supervised routine of medical care. [DEA Administrative Law Judge – 1988]”
― Francis Young
“So when he asked about getting high, I didn’t think, I agreed. We smoked some good California green. Took three tries to put me in the place he said I should be.”
― Ellen Hopkins
“The drug war is a total scam, prescription drugs kill 300K a year, while marijuana kills no one, but they spend billions/year ‘fighting’ it, because pot heads make for good little slaves to put into private prisons, owned by the banks who launder the drug money, and it’s ALL DOCUMENTED.”
― Alex E. Jones
“I am convinced that there are genuine and valid levels of perception available with cannabis (and probably with other drugs) which are, through the defects of our society and our educational system, un-available to us without such drugs.”
― Lester Grinspoon, Marihuana Reconsidered
“She was starting to think that it might be fun to be in control of the universe.”
― Nicki Elson, Three Daves
“I was a little too antsy, I was jumping around, wanting to go here, wanting to be there. Once I started smoking weed, I just wanted to stay and play the video game and rap. You spend good time with your daughter, man, after you go smoke, chill with your daughter. You’re willing to do whatever she want to do.”
― Schoolboy Q
“There has never been a ‘war on drugs’! In our history we can only see an ongoing conflict amongst various drug users – and producers. In ancient Mexico the use of alcohol was punishable by death, while the ritualistic use of mescaline was highly worshipped. In 17th century Russia, tobacco smokers were threatened with mutilation or decapitation, alcohol was legal. In Prussia, coffee drinking was prohibited to the lower classes, the use of tobacco and alcohol was legal.”
― Sebastian Marincolo
“I don’t drink too much, I know the bud wiser.” — Joey Bada$$
“Mason took in enough cannabis smoke to allow a Lipan Apache manipulating a blanket over it to transmit the complete works of Tennyson.”
― Richard Condon, Money Is Love
“So many writers make dope glamorous; a form of romantic transgression, or world-weariness, or poetic sensitivity, or hipness. Mainly it’s the stuff of ritualistic communion among inarticulate bores.”
― Leonard Michaels
“I grew up being told, “If you do marijuana you’ll be a slave for the rest of your life,” and it only took me ten minutes to realize smoking marijuana was pretty cool. Then it was, “If you take LSD you’ll be a slave for the rest of your life. Then it got to be, “If you take cocaine, you’ll be slave for life.” There was a time when I thought, “Hey, I’ve been taking Heroin for six months and I feel fine. You know, just on weekends.” I actually believed that you didn’t have to become addicted. I was wrong. The most important thing out of this is, don’t lie to the kids. If marijuana is not going to make you homeless and addicted, don’t tell people it is, because they’ll found out it doesn’t, then when they get to the stuff that really WILL, they ain’t gonna believe you.” – Dickie Peterson”
― Jon Wiederhorn, Louder Than Hell: The Definitive Oral History of Metal
“Mexican marijuana, which he called the schoolboy’s consolation.”
― James Purdy, Eustace Chisholm and the Works: A Novel
“Weed is going to bring us together as a generation. Drugs is what created Woodstock. Let’s be clear about that.”
― A$AP ROCKY
“Serge nodded. ‘And I respect your opinion because you smoke marijuana. You’re chemically biased against violence and job applications.”
― Tim Dorsey, Pineapple Grenade
“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.” — Terrence McKenna
“People say you can abuse marijuana. You can abuse cheeseburgers. Does that mean we should close Burger Kings.” – Joe Rogan
“Instead of taking five or six of the prescriptions, I decided to go a natural route and smoke marijuana.”
– Melissa Etheridge
“That is not a drug. It’s a leaf.”
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
“Just hit the blunt one time and see if it don’t change your perception on what’s important in your life.”
— Katt Williams
“Too many Americans have seen their lives destroyed because they have criminal records as a result of marijuana use. That’s wrong. That has got to change.” -Sen. Bernie Sanders
“For 3,000 years marijuana was a legitimate medication.” — Dr. Sanjay Gupta
“Marijuana was the main thing that promoted non-violence amongst the youth, because as soon as they have it, they – first of all you have to laugh on your first experiences. There’s nothing else you do but laugh, and then, when you’ve got over that and you realize that people aren’t laughing at you, but with you, it’s a community thing, and nothing would ever stop it, nothing on earth is going to stop it, and the only thing to do is to find out how to use it for good, or for the best.” — John Lennon
“The cannabis experience has greatly improved my appreciation for art, a subject which I had never much appreciated before. The understanding of the intent of the artist which I can achieve when high sometimes carries over to when I’m down. This is one of many human frontiers which cannabis has helped me traverse.” — Carl Sagan
“I can take pot or leave it. I got busted in Japan for it. I was nine days without it and there wasn’t a hint of withdrawal, nothing.”
— Sir Paul McCartney
“Now these things aren’t drugs; they just bend your mind a little. I think everybody’s mind should be bent once in a while.”
— Bob Dylan
“Please pass me the peace weed, and take some heed. Throw away all that mixed up speed.”
— Jimi Hendrix
“It’s an accompaniment to life. It’s not something that I do to rap; I smoke when I open my eyes…I don’t know any other feeling.”
— Action Bronson
“A drug that grows up out of the ground, you pick it in the wild, right? It’s no different than tobacco.”
— Seth MacFarlane
“Pick it, pack it, fire it up, come along and take hits from the bong.”
— Cypress Hill
“All my dreams got more vivid when I stopped smoking pot Nightmares got more vivid when I start smoking pot.”
— Frank Ocean
“I want my ashes either with some really good primo or as some fertilizer for plants.”
— Tommy Chong
“It’s a very strange thing when you make nature illegal.”
– Joe Rogan
Weed makes me feel the way I need to feel. Snoop Dogg
(Marijuana users) are leaders of our community these law just don’t make sense It is time for politicion to come out closet. Gavin Newsom
A good garden may have some weeds. Thomas Fuller
