"By any of the major criteria of harm - mortality, morbidity, toxicity, addictiveness and relationship with crime - cannabis is less harmful than any of the other major illicit drugs, or than alcohol or tobacco."
- Report of the British Police Foundation March 2000 

"You bet I did -— and I enjoyed it."
- Michael Bloomberg, New York City Mayor, when asked if he had ever smoked marijuana.

"That is not a drug. It's a leaf."
- Arnold Schwarzenegger about marijuana, 2007 

"I never understood that line. The point was to inhale. That was the point."
- Barack Obama, When asked, "Unlike other presidents, did you inhale?'

"Congress should definitely consider decriminalizing possession of marijuana.... We should concentrate on prosecuting the rapists and burglars who are a menace to society."
- U.S. Representative Dan Quayle, March 1977 

"The importation and sale of marijuana is condemned and punished as a serious crime, but we accept as legitimate the manufacture and sale of an infinitely more addictive and deadly drug: the nicotine in cigarettes that cost the lives of 390,000 American citizens last year."
- Jimmy Carter, 1990 

"The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture."
- Thomas Jefferson 

"Freedom is that faculty that enlarges the usefulness of all other faculties."
- Immanuel Kant 

"Estimates suggest that from 20 to 50 million Americans routinely, albeit illegally, smoke marijuana without the benefit of direct medical supervision. Yet, despite this long history of use and the extraordinarily high numbers of social smokers, there are simply no credible reports to suggest that consuming marijuana has caused a single death. By contrast, aspirin, a commonly used, over-the-counter medicine, causes hundreds of deaths each year."
- DEA Administrative Law Judge Francis L. Young      

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