The Ultimate Collection of Inspirational Quotes About Weed

"I do smoke, but I don’t go through all this trouble just because I want to make my drug of choice legal. It’s about personal freedom. We should have the right in this country to do what we want, if we don’t hurt anybody."

- Bob Marley

"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

"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."

- Carl Sagan

"When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself."

- Bob Marley

"The biggest killer on the planet is stress, and I still think the best medicine is and always has been cannabis."

- Willie Nelson

"As an artist, there’s a sweet jump-starting quality for me. So if ever I need some clarity, I smoke a joint."

- Lady Gaga

"I don’t think pot is more dangerous than alcohol."

- Barack Obama

"So what if I’m smoking weed onstage and doing what I gotta do? It’s not me shooting nobody, stabbing nobody, killing nobody. It’s a peaceful gesture and they have to respect that and appreciate that."

- Snoop Dogg

"I don’t do drugs, though. Just weed."

- Dave Chapelle

"Stop killing each other, man. Let’s just smoke a blunt."

- Tupac

"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."

- Hunter S. Thompson

"Weed is from the earth. God put this here for me and you. Take advantage, man, take advantage."

- Smokey (Chris Tucker)

"Cannabis will one day be seen as a wonder drug, as was penicillin in the 1940s. Like penicillin, herbal marijuana is remarkably nontoxic, has a wide range of therapeutic applications and would be quite inexpensive if it were legal."

- Lester Grinspoon

"Marijuana saved my life. I have no doubts at all about that. It saved my life and gave me a life."

- Tommy Chong

"I think America’s view on weed is ridiculous. If everyone smoked weed, the world would be a better place."

- Kirsten Dunst

"Marijuana enhances our mind in a way that enables us to take a different perspective from 'high up,' to see and evaluate our own lives and the lives of others in a privileged way. Maybe this euphoric and elevating feeling of the ability to step outside the box and to look at life's patterns from this high perspective is the inspiration behind the slang term 'high' itself."

- Sebastian Marincolo

"Pot makes you feel fine with being bored, and it's when you're bored that you should be learning some new skill or discovering some new science or being creative."

- Stan Marsh

"I think that marijuana should not only be legal, I think it should be a cottage industry. It would be wonderful for the state of Maine. There’s some pretty good homegrown dope. I’m sure it would be even better if you could grow it with fertilizers and have greenhouses."

- Stephen King

"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."

- Carl Sagan

"The good thing about weed is that it makes it so that your problems don't bother you. The bad thing about weed is that it makes it so that your problems don't bother you."

- Vlad Ly

"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

"People say you can abuse marijuana. Well shit, you can abuse cheeseburgers too, you know? You don’t go around closing Burger King because you can abuse something."

- Joe Rogan

"Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction."

- Bob Marley

"I don’t think [pot] is more dangerous than alcohol."

- Barack Obama

"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."

- Louis Armstrong

"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."

- Hunter S. Thompson

"A marijuana high can enhance core human mental abilities."

- Sebastian Marincolo

"I'm not a great pothead or anything like that... but weed is much, much less dangerous than alcohol."

- Bill Maher

"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?"

- Willie Nelson

"The drug war is a total scam, so much money involved and the government loves it. You know, they can imprison people for marijuana - which never killed anybody - and yet people are walking around killing themselves with alcohol every day. It's insane!"

- Wiz Khalifa

"I find it quite ironic that the most dangerous thing about getting weed is getting caught with it."

- Bill Murray

"I smoke weed all day. I’m a very successful addict. And a smart one. And a very charismatic one."

- Lil Wayne

"When I was a kid, I inhaled frequently. That was the point."

- Barack Obama

"Some of my finest hours have been spent on my back veranda, smoking hemp and observing as far as my eye can see."

- Thomas Jefferson

"Is marijuana addictive? Yes, in the sense that most of the really pleasant things in life are worth endlessly repeating."

- Richard Neville

"Prohibition... goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes."

- Abraham Lincoln

"I enjoy smoking cannabis and see no harm in it."

- Jennifer Aniston

"I have no interest in smoking marijuana, but I can’t see any reason to keep someone of age from lighting up."

- Henry Rollins

"Even if one doesn’t smoke pot, one has to see the benefits of decriminalizing it!"

- Danny DeVito

"Smoke the marijuana and get high. Stay above the wicked and fly."

- Snoop Dogg

"Federal and state laws (should) be changed to no longer make it a crime to possess marijuana for private use."

- Richard Nixon

"Never give up the ganja."

- Morgan Freeman

"It is, like, the best medicine. Because it fixes everything. Jonah broke his elbow once. He just got high, and it still clicks, but I mean… he’s okay."

- Ben (Seth Rogen)

"That is not a drug, it’s a leaf."

- Arnold “the Governator” Schwarzenegger

"There was a point I was embarrassed at how much thought I put into weed. But I’ve embraced it."

- Seth Rogen

"I find it quite ironic that the most dangerous thing about weed is getting caught with it."

- Bill Murray

"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?"

- Henry Ford

"I think pot should be legal. I don't smoke it, but I like the smell of it."

- Andy Warhol

"If somebody gives me a joint, I might smoke it, but I don’t go after it."

- John Lennon

"I don't smoke marijuana, but I eat it."

- Bob Dylan

"I got high, and forgot I wasn’t supposed to get high."

- Ricky Williams

"I’ve always smoked while I’m working. This happens every night, whether the cameras are on or off. This is the lifestyle that people have to accept from me."

- 2Chainz

"Sometimes you just gotta say ‘fuck it’ and smoke a big ass joint."

- Tommy Chong

"Let us burn one from end to end, and pass it over to me, my friend."

- Ben Harper

"It’s hard to be mean when you’re stoned."

- Bill Lee

"Kush rolled, glass full. I prefer the better things!"

- Rihanna

"The drug is really quite a remarkably safe one for humans, although it is really quite a dangerous one for mice and they should not use it."

- J.W.D. Henderson

"Dope will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no dope."

- Freewheelin Franklin

"Make the most you can of the Indian hemp seed and sow it everywhere."

- George Washington

"Two of my favorite things are sitting on my front porch smoking a pipe of sweet hemp and playing my Hohner harmonica."

- Abraham Lincoln

"I smoke two joints before I smoke two joints. And then I smoke two more."

- Sublime

"Don’t judge someone until you have shared a joint with them."

"Sativa to change the things I can, indica to accept the things I can’t."

"Struggle is the enemy, but weed is the remedy."

"It’s CANnabis, not CAN’Tabis."

"A puff a day keeps the debauched attitude away."

"I never joined high school, I joined school high."

"Breathe in, hold it, puff out, and grin."

"You either love weed, or you’re wrong."

"If we all had a bong, we’d all get along!"

"A friend with weed is a friend indeed, and a friend who shares is a friend who cares."

"Alcohol kills. Weed chills."

"Whatever I do, I do it better stoned."

"Smoking weed doesn’t make you cool, but if you’re cool then you probably smoke weed."

"The first time I smoked, I didn't get high, but I did end up going to McDonald's."

"Don’t worry. Don’t cry. Smoke weed and get high."

"Don’t kill my high because you’re low."

"If you ever miss 4:20, just wait until 4:22. Because 4:22 is 4:20, too."

"Couples who blaze together, stay together."

"It’s 420 somewhere."

"It’s called CANnabis, not CAN’Tabis."

"Can’t complain when you’ve got Mary Jane."