“No, no, that wasn't a stroke. They hadn't perfected edibles back then.”— Wil Calhoun, Frankie Bergstein, Lily Tomlin, imdb.com
“Marijuana is viewed as medicinal, and it’s given to people with cancer and AIDS. People know it’s used to help with nausea and stimulate the appetite, so it’s difficult to get patients to accept that it may be causing their nausea and vomiting.”— Cecilia J. Sorensen, nytimes.com
“I was always the guy saying that I didn't like altered states. Once you know who you are, then it becomes OK.”— John Mayer, rollingstone.com
“Did you hear about the new strain of marijuana so potent you won't even be able to stand on your own two feet? They call it tumbleweed”— ThinkOfANameHere, reddit.com
“You can now major in Marijuana at some universities Guess grades are going to be a little higher this semester!”— cigar_dude, reddit.com
“Millennials grandkids are going to complain about big cannabis like we complain about big tobacco.”— nailsharden, reddit.com
“I reject the idea that America will be a better place if marijuana is sold in every corner store. And I am astonished to hear people suggest that we can solve our heroin crisis by legalizing marijuana—so people can trade one life-wrecking dependency for another that’s only slightly less awful.”— Jeff Sessions, newsweek.com
“It is not fully accurate to say that my problem was with drugs. Yes, I took a lot of drugs and hurt myself quite badly doing so. Yet for a long time at the beginning of my using, drugs (marijuana in particular) were a solution to a problem that had been there for some time.”— Tommy Rosen, amazon.com
“We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black [people]. But by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt their communities.”— Unknown Official of the Nixon Administration, imdb.com
“I would like to be president some day, so, no, I have not smoked marijuana.”— Leslie Knope, amazon.com
“If you’re not a pot smoker, skip this one. But sexual adventurers who fancy the occasional toke know how intensely smoking can enhance the experience. It’s also true that marijuana possesses some amazing pain-reducing powers, and this can come in handy when maneuvering large objects into tiny spaces…”— Carrie Weisman, alternet.org
“One might ask why tobacco is legal and marijuana not. A possible answer is suggested by the nature of the crop. Marijuana can be grown almost anywhere, with little difficulty. It might not be easily marketable by major corporations. Tobacco is quite another story.”— Noam Chomsky, zmag.org
“He didn't notice a single face as he took a seat. He saw neither teacher nor students, and was aware only of the heavenly light in the room, an orange glow from the autumnal foliage outside. The room seemed full of a sweet viscous liquid, a honey nearly light as air, which he breathed in. Time slowe…”— Jeffrey Eugenides, amazon.com
“There is a myth about such highs: the user has an illusion of great insight, but it does not survive scrutiny in the morning. I am convinced that this is an error, and that the devastating insights achieved when high are real insights; the main problem is putting these insights in a form acceptable…”— Carl Sagan, marijuana-uses.com