Lester Grinspoon famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Cannabis is remarkably safe. Although not harmless, it is surely less toxic than most of the conventional medicines it could replace if it were legally available. Despite its use by millions of people over thousands of years, cannabis has never caused an overdose death.
-- Lester Grinspoon

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I am convinced that there are genuine and valid levels of perception available with cannabis (and probably with other drugs) which are, through the defects of our society and our educational system, un-available to us without such drugs.
-- Lester Grinspoon

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I have come to doubt whether the FDA rules should apply to cannabis. There is no question about its safety. It is one of humanity's oldest medicines, used for thousands of years by millions of people with very little evidence of significant toxic effects. More is known about its adverse effects than about those of most prescription drugs.
-- Lester Grinspoon

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We in this country have to make up our minds -- -- we can not have it both ways: we cannot be both drug-free and free.
-- Lester Grinspoon

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I've been smoking ***** for 44 years now, and ... I think it's a tremendous blessing.
-- Lester Grinspoon

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Marijuana is effective at relieving nausea and vomiting, spasticity, appetite loss, certain types of pain, and other debilitating symptoms. And it is extraordinarily safe - safer than most medicines prescribed every day. If ***** were a new discovery rather than a well-known substance carrying cultural and political baggage, it would be hailed as a wonder drug.
-- Lester Grinspoon

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Marijuana is one of the least toxic substances in the whole pharmacopoeia
-- Lester Grinspoon

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I began to study marijuana in 1967... I had not yet learned that there is something very special about illicit drugs. If they don't always make the drug user behave irrationally, they certainly cause many non-users to behave that way.
-- Lester Grinspoon

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I've been smoking marijuana for 44 years now, and ... I think it's a tremendous blessing.
-- Lester Grinspoon

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A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.
Less than the dust beneath thy chariot wheel, less than the weed that grows beside thy door.
I, as a responsible adult human being, will never concede the power to anyone to regulate my choice of what I put into my body, or where I go with my mind. From the skin inwards is my jurisdiction, is it not? I choose what may or may not cross that border. Here I am the Customs Agent. I am the Coast guard. I am the sole legal and spiritual government of this territory, and only the laws I choose to enact within myself are applicable
Science has revealed that the human body is made up of millions and millions of atoms... For example, I am made up of 5.8x10^27 atoms.
In many churches Christianity has been watered down until the solution is so weak that if it were poison it would not hurt anyone, and if it were medicine it would not cure anyone.
The universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme Reason and Absolute Justice; for the mind, mathematical and practical Truth; for the body, the Quintessence, a combination of light and gold.
God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.
It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.
A man who has made up his mind on a given subject twenty-five years ago and continues to hold his political opinions after he has been proved to be wrong is a man of principle; while he who from time to time adapts his opinions to the changing circumstances of life is an opportunist.
Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without

Lester Grinspoon famous quotes

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