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Mark Haskell Smith

"The fact that, in the United States, there are people serving ten-year prison terms for growing ***** plants in their backyards while Wall Street racketeers, who have defrauded millions of people and destroyed the global economy, walk free is a kind of bizarre hypocrisy that boggles my mind."

Source : Mark Haskell Smith (2012). “Heart of Dankness: Underground Botanists, Outlaw Farmers, and the Race for the Cannabis Cup”, p.33, Broadway Books

Mark Haskell Smith

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“Start each day in my peace and stillness, then you can go forth and face whatever the day may bring in perfect peace and joy.”
“Prostitution is the most hideous of the afflictions produced by the unequal distribution of the world's goods; this infamy stigmatizes the human species and bears witness against the social organization far more than does crime.”
“I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it.”
“I esteem his understanding and subtlety highly, but I consider that they have been put to ill use in the greater part of his work, where the author studies things of little use or when he builds on the improbable principle of attraction. Writing about Newton's Principia. Huygens had some time earlier indicated he did not believe the theory of universal gravitation, saying it 'appears to me absurd.'”
“If we are going to teach the world to stop hating the different, the other, then weâ€™re going to have to start with children.”
“Every duty we omit obscures some truth we should have known.”
“Wall Street is at best ambivalent. The size of the accounts is nothing big. How many Wall Street firms do you know that are running after people with $5,000 accounts?”
“One of the things about my ministry is that I have never branded myself as being above the people or superior to people.”

"The fact that, in the United States, there are people serving ten-year prison terms for growing ***** plants in their backyards while Wall Street racketeers, who have defrauded millions of people and destroyed the global economy, walk free is a kind of bizarre hypocrisy that boggles my mind."

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