Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Sagan

It seems madness to say, 'We're worried that they're going to become addicted to marijuana' -- there's no evidence whatever that it's an addictive drug, but even if it were, these people are dying, what are we saving them from?

Bill Hicks

Marijuana: a drug that kills … no one – and let's put it in a time frame – ever. Illegal.

Bill Hicks

Pot is a better drug than alcohol. I'll prove it to you. You're at a ball game or a concert, and someone's really violent and agressive and obnoxious, are they drunk or are they smoking pot?

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Marijuana... That's not a drug, that's a plant.

Eleanor Roosevelt

A candle can bring light to a dungeon but it can also be used to light a deadly marijuana cigarette.

Dear Abbey

I agree that marijuana laws are overdue for an overhaul. I also favor the medical use of marijuana -- if it's prescribed by a physician. I cannot understand why the federal government should interfere with the doctor-patient relationship, nor why it would ignore the will of a majority of voters who have legally approved such legislation.

Ali Khamenei

It is haram [religiously forbidden] to use narcotics in any way because it results in considerable adverse effects in terms of personal health and social cost. By the same token, it is haram to deal in narcotics in any way, i.e., carrying, transporting, storing, selling, buying, etc.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.

Daniel Ortega

Legalisation doesn't make sense.

Barry McCaffrey

The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.

Barry McCaffrey

Colombia is in a risky position. They've got a peace process that's going nowhere, and a drug production problem that's skyrocketing.

Barry McCaffrey

The United States and Mexico are trapped - economically, culturally, politically and because of drug crime - in the same continent.

Carrie Fisher

Sid said that drugs weren't the problem, life was the problem. Drugs were the solution.

Carrie Fisher

It's very good to get through them (drugs) while you're still young and then talk about how great or bad it was for the rest of your life.

Carrie Fisher

Drugs made me feel more normal.

Bill Hicks

How dare you have wino tell me not to do drugs.

Bill Hicks

That's why I always recommend a psychedelic experience because it makes you realize that all you've learned is in fact just learned and not necessarily the truth.

Bill Hicks

not all drugs are good.. some of them are great

Will Adams

Right now we wink and we nod and we give many of the same services and privileges to illegal aliens.

Jenni Engebretsen

Just as parents are talking to their kids about smoking, or alcohol, or drug use, they're now talking to their kids about illegal downloading.

Jerry Owens

I think it's real sad because these people are really saying it's OK to be illegal aliens. What Americans are saying is 'Yes, come here. But come here legally.' And I think that's the big problem.

H. Hart

It is illegal for them to sell an item that they know can be used to ingest or inhale an illegal substance.

Keith Martin

Harper adheres to this notion that society should morally ( penalize ) people who use illegal drugs.

Jose Antonio Vargas

I found out that I was illegal when I was 16. I'm gay. I'm Filipino.

Bill Rogers

I think their whole search has a pall over it because of illegal actions.

Eugene Brezany

If they see illegal activity, of course, they're going to report it. But we are not law enforcement, and we don't want to be perceived as law enforcement.

Tommy Chong

The trouble when you're doing something illegal is that you know what you're doing. You're lying to your parents, you're lying to your kids. The only person you can't lie to is yourself.