Presidents Pot Quotes:

• President Obama on pot:
  

  “When I was a kid I inhaled frequently. That was the point.” [Think Exist]

• President Bill Clinton on inhaling:
  

  “When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two. I didn't like it, and I didn't inhale, and I never tried again.” [Think Exist]

• President Ronald Reagan on weed:
  

  “I now have absolute proof that smoking even one marijuana cigarette is equal in brain damage to being on Bikini Island during an H-bomb blast.” [Think Exist]

• President Jimmy Carter on marihuana:
  

“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.” [Eazy Smoke]

 

Presidents Hemp Quotes:

• President Thomas Jefferson urged about hemp:
  

“Hemp is of first necessity to the wealth & protection of the country.” [Eazy Smoke]

• President John Adams suggested on hemp:
  

“We shall, by and by, want a world of hemp more for our own consumption.” [Eazy Smoke]

• President George Washington advised on hemp:
  

“Make the most you can of the Indian Hemp seed and sow it everywhere.” [Eazy Smoke]

 

Celebrity Pot/Hemp Quotes:

• Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on cannabis:
  

“That is not a drug. It’s a leaf.” [Eazy Smoke]

• Philosopher Terence McKenna on marijuana:
  

“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.” [Eazy Smoke]

• Industrialist Henry Ford on hemp:
  

“Why use up the forests which were centuries in the making and the mines which required ages to lay down, if we can get the equivalent of forest and mineral products in the annual growth of the hemp fields?” [Eazy Smoke]

• Astronomer Carl Sagan on cannabis:
  

“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.” [Eazy Smoke]

• Comedian Steve Martin mused about the green stuff:
  

“I used to smoke marijuana. But I’ll tell you something: I would only smoke it in the late evening. Oh, occasionally the early evening, but usually the late evening or the mid-evening. Just the early evening, mid-evening and late evening. Occasionally, early afternoon, early mid-afternoon, or perhaps the late-mid-afternoon. Oh, sometimes the early-mid-late-early morning... But never at dusk.” [Eazy Smoke]

• Comedian Bill Hicks on the misconceptions of MJ:
  

  “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?” [Think Exist]

• TV Journalist Matt Lauer educates on the herb:
  

  “Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain as marijuana. The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two but can’t remember what they are.” [High Times]

• Jazz Musician Louis Armstrong on marijuana:
  

“It really puzzles me to see marijuana connected with narcotics... dope and all that crap. It's a thousand times better than whiskey - it's an assistant - a friend.” [Eazy Smoke]

• Rapper Method Man on his smoker profile:

“I don’t mind being an advocate for weed. It’s not as bad as tobacco, alcohol or firearms, for that matter... There’s no reason it shouldn't be legalized. You can make all kinds of stuff out of hemp. I think the cure for cancer’s probably in cannabis.” [High Times]