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Cannabis Quotes: What people say about cannabis.

• "CORRECTION: In "For the Record" (Feb. 24) NR reported that Pope John Paul II wanted the Italian government to ban tobacco as a hard drug. In fact he was talking about marijuana. So the Pope is right about tobacco, though wrong about pot." National Review Magazine / March 24, 1997 page 6.
• "One of the safest therapeutically active substances known...." Drug Enforcement Administration Administrative Law Judge, Francis Young, 1988
• "True, the Founding Fathers had provided for a specific right to bear arms, but the only reason they'd nothing to say to about the right to plant seeds (was)... because it never would have occurred to them that any state might care to abridge that right. After all, they were writing on hemp paper." Michael Pollan, quoting California flower grower, Will Fulton. Harper's Magazine / April 1997 page 52.
• "The smoking of cannabis, even long term, is not harmful to health." EDITORIAL Deglamorising cannabis THE LANCET . Volume 346, Number 8985, November 11, 1995, p. 1241.
• "Between 2 and 5 per thousand cannabis users get into trouble." Dutch Cannabis Policy Update
• "Apparently, in Amsterdam where use of illicit drugs is made possible due to the hassle free (illicit) availability of that type of drug, the use of cannabis satisfies almost all curiosity. Small numbers of experienced cannabis users try other illicit substances, mostly cocaine and ecstasy."Cannabis Use, A Stepping Stone to Other Drugs? The Case of Amsterdam. by Peter Cohen and Arjan Sas.
• "Marijuana gives rise to insanity -- not in its users but in the policies directed against it. A nation that sentences the possessor of a single joint to life imprisonment without parole but sets a murderer free after perhaps six years is in the grips of a deep psychosis." More Reefer Madness by Eric Schlosser. An important article in the April Atlantic Monthly by the author of two previous articles published in The Atlantic in 1994.
• "Marijuana causes people to lose their memory and lose their energy, and it makes them stupid... It is the last thing that one would want to see happen on or around a university or state capital.... And people who are casual about drugs ought to realize that a lot of people are dying in America." From The De-Valuing of America (page 130) by Former drug addicted Drug Czar William Bennett. (He was on nicotine maintenance when he was Drug Czar.)
• " Perhaps the most pointed statement Wednesday to the powers of pot came from Keith Vines, a prosecutor in the San Francisco district attorney's office. In 1990, Vines prosecuted what was one of the biggest drug busts in the city's history. Three years later, he was near death because of AIDS wasting syndrome. The recommendation: marijuana. 'As a patient, I made the decision to save my life,' said Vines, a plaintiff in the case who still uses marijuana for medical purposes." From Los Angeles Times, May 1, 1997 Copyright Los Angeles Times
• Meet the Press Excerpt August 10, 1997 Samples:

  Hardball journalism. MR. RUSSERT: How serious of a problem is using marijuana for medicinal use?

  Strategic analysis, discovering our cavalry techniques to avoid modern technology. GEN. McCAFFREY: We've got a national campaign by drug legalizers, in my view, to try and use medicinal uses of drugs and legalization of hemp as a stalking horse to get in under the radar screen.

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