“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

“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.”

Hunter S. Thompson

“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.”

Terence McKenna

“The evidence is overwhelming that marijuana can relieve certain types of pain, nausea, vomiting and other symptoms. And it can do so with remarkable safety. Indeed, marijuana is less toxic than many of the drugs that physicians prescribe every day.”

Joycelyn Elders, MD

“Prohibition has led to policies and enforcement practices that entrench discrimination and propagate human rights violations, contribute to violence-related criminal networks and deny people access to the interventions they need to improve their health”

World Health Organisation

“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 only sensible approach is to legalise and regulate cannabis. The war on drugs has failed in its core aims to prevent people from using drugs, manufacturing drugs, and to put a stop to the crime, corruption and death that is taking place on an industrial scale around the world”

Adam Smith Institute

“When I was a kid I inhaled frequently - That was the point.”

Barack Obama

“I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is a flower - God put it here.”

Willie Nelson

"Of course I know how to roll a joint."

Martha Stewart

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

Richard Neville

"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

"Prison is for rapists, thieves, and murderers. If you lock someone up for smoking a plant that makes them happy, then you’re the fucking criminal."

Joe Rogan

“It is beyond my comprehension that any humane person would withhold such a beneficial substance from people in such great need simply because others use it for different purposes.”

Steven Gould

“I have found in my study of these patients that cannabis is really a safe, effective and non-toxic alternative to many standard medications.”

Philip Denney, MD

“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