Famous Stoners throughout history!

[Bennyboy]

"Two of my favorite things are sitting on my front porch smoking a pipe of sweet hemp, and playing my Hohner harmonica." - Abraham Lincoln (from a letter written by Lincoln during his presidency to the head of the Hohner Harmonica Company in Germany)

[struggle4progress]

1. "Marijuana really helped me concentrate on astronomy" -- Nicolaus Copernicus

[Bennyboy]

2. Marijuana is a term coined in 1935,,,,,

by William Randolph Hearst to make it seem more "mexican" in order to demonize it so it became illegal and to protect his timber interests.

So please, NEVER CALL CANNABIS "marijuana" again....

[struggle4progress]

22. You got some complaint with the quote, take it up with Copernicus

Cheese! :eyes:

[pintobean]

33. Take it up with NORML and MPP as well

[Bennyboy]

37. I have. Calling it marijuana just fits right in with

the demonization of cannabis. Same thing with calling it a drug. IT IS NOT A DRUG.I understand that these orgs cannot change their names, but still,,,,

[Bennyboy]

3. Jimmy Carter (Not a stoner, but he got it)

"Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself; and where they are, they should be changed. Nowhere is this more clear than in the laws against possession of marihuana in private for personal use... Therefore, I support legislation amending Federal law to eliminate all Federal criminal penalties for the possession of up to one ounce of marihuana." - Jimmy Carter, U.S. President

But, I shudder when I hear the word "Drug" associated with cannabis. It is not a drug. It is a plant, an herb. Again, by lumping it in with all other drugs, it goes to further demonize it.

[mdmc]

32. 1

[Bennyboy]

4. Carl Sagan

"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, renown scientist, astronomer, astrochemist, author and TV host

[Bennyboy]

5. Henry Ford (maybe not a stoner but still has a great thought)

"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, whose first Model-T was constructed from hemp fibers and built to run on hemp gasoline

[dixiegrrrrl]

34. I had no idea about the model T=hemp.!

where can I find more info on that???

[Bennyboy]

6. Ahhhhnold S....

"That is not a drug. It's a leaf." - Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governor of California

[Bennyboy]

7. - Terence McKenna

"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

[Bennyboy]

8. The most clueless person EVER! (Not Feinstein)

I now have absolute proof that smoking even one marijuana cigarette is equal in brain damage to being on Bikini Island during an H-bomb blast" - Ronald Reagan

Perhaps with all the evidence coming out that marijuana may help prevent Alzheimer's, it is possible that Reagan's affliction could have been halted or prevented by the herb he so vilified. The powers that maintain the illogical status quo for marijuana's illegality are feeling a seismic shift beneath their skewed logic and paranoid rhetoric. When scientific research is unambiguously and evenly applied to marijuana, the current laws and prohibition cannot and will not stand.

[Bennyboy]

9. The Greatest swimmer in history! Michael Phelps...

On a side note, sales of the bong that Phelps used are through the roof so in case you're in the market for a Roor Little Sista Ice Masta 3.2, you may have a hard time finding one.

[Bennyboy]

10. Two time Cy Young Award winner, Tim Lincecum....

Tons of these shirts at the old ballpark lately...

[Duer 157099]

20. So *that's* why his pitching has been so sucky lately?

:shrug:

I don't know the story, was he a cannabis user and then stopped or something?

[Bennyboy]

24. Got busted in a car in Oregon in the off season...

So no more puffing for Timmy. "A one time thing" he said (Yet he had an ounce). I think he missed a great moment to say "Screw all of you, I am the best pitcher in baseball and I puff, so shut up"...

[Bennyboy]

27. Let Timmy and Percy Harvin smoke!

Let Timmy and Percy Smoke!
By Ellen Komp, Cannabis Culture - Tuesday, August 31 2010
TAGS: CC MAGAZINE FEATURE ARTICLES HEADLINE NEWS ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT CELEBRITIES DRUG TESTING PERCY HARVIN SPORTS TIME LINCECUM
CANNABIS CULTURE - Denying marijuana to sports stars may be affecting their performance and heath.
Those wearing Let Tim Smoke! T-shirts sold outside the SF Giants' stadium may have had the right idea. Two-time, defending Cy Young award winner Tim Lincecum is in a terrible slump, just after signing a $23-million dollar contract on the heels of a marijuana bust in the off season.

Attorney Tony Serra (the True Believer) propounds an interesting theory in Leah Garchik's SF Chronicle gossip column:

It's obvious...what has happened to impair his pitching brilliance. His decline occurred after his marijuana conviction in Oregon . He obviously has not 'medicated' since then. Baseball pitchers, like trial lawyers, have a 'high stress' vocation. Marijuana ably moderates stress. Lincecum suffers from 'cannabis deprivation'.

The pitcher, who may just be throwing his arm out of the action, at least has fared better than Vikings wide receiver Percy Harvin, who was hospitalized for severe migraine headaches after league policy disallowed his medical marijuana use for the ailment. Returning to practice, he had to be hospitalized a second time. Cindy Boren of the Washington Post describes what happened:

Harvin, who has battled migraines since he was 10 and sought treatment last year at the Mayo Clinic, had not practiced for two weeks because of migraines, returning to the field only Monday . Suffering another attack Thursday, he managed to return to the field and looked up to the sky to field a punt. He doubled over, vomited and seemed momentarily unresponsive and was taken to the hospital. The scene was so disturbing for players that the rest of practice was called off.


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According to Mike Meno of the Marijuana Policy Project,

during last year's NFL combine, Harvin, a promising prospect, tested positive for marijuana, and was subsequently drafted much lower than expected. The Vikings finally picked him 22nd overall, reportedly after a long talk about his marijuana use, and specifically, how it needed to stop if he wanted to keep playing.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the top NBA scorer of all time, has admitted he uses marijuana for migraines. So many sports figures are found to be using marijuana (most recently, Miami Heat forward Udonis Haslem) that one wonders whether Serra is on to something.

Acknowledging to Sports Illustrated that as many as one third of potential draft picks have tried marijuana, the NFL is no longer disqualifying players who test positive for pot, but rather is evaluating them on a case-by-case basis. "If you knocked everyone off your board who has experimented with weed, you'd lose about 20 percent of your board, not to mention disqualify a few recent presidents," one NFL head coach said.

Dr. Frank Lucido, a medical marijuana specialist practicing in Berkeley, told the Wall Street Journal that two former NFL players with chronic orthopedic pain are his patients. "I say marijuana should not be a banned substance . It has too many medical benefits," Lucido stated.

Ditto the NBA, MLB and the USA. READ MORE"
http://www.veryimportantpotheads.com/

[Bennyboy]

11. Albert Einstein

"The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this country is closely connected with this." - Albert Einstein quote on Hemp

[JuniperLea]

12. This probably isn't what you're looking for...

Unless he quit... get back on the weed, Glenn!
http://www.veryimportantpotheads.com/

[Bennyboy]

14. Well it can't overcome douchebaggery....

Shame that.

[Bennyboy]

15. That is why Sarah Palin is also on the list...

Imagine how douchy both would be if they had never smoked?

[JuniperLea]

19. That thought makes my brain hurt...

That the only cool thing about them is they have toked the weed is pretty pathetic.

[JuniperLea]

18. It's a miraculous herb...

But no, douchebaggery... assholery... bastiges and creepazoids will always be so, I'm afraid. A little mellower, perhaps a tad hungry... but personality defects will prevail.

[dixiegrrrrl]

35. Jeff Bridges. No shit, dude.

[Mr. Ected]

13. Rick Steves - PBS's Travels Through Europe

". . . Being high to me is a little like Cuba. Any time my government says I can't go somewhere, I feel it's one of my rights to go there. My government can't tell me I can't go to Cuba. Everyone else is going to Cuba, why can't I go to Cuba? And I don't think my government can tell me what I can do as a responsible citizen in the privacy of my own home...So happy travels, even if you're just staying home."

[Mendocino]

16. Will Geer-Grandpa Walton

I remember him making a statement about how much he liked his MJ "tea". He was also an amateur botanist and hung around with Woody Guthrie. So you decide.

[Bennyboy]

17. That lazy son of a bitch, Bill Gates!

ill Gates officially moves up from "possible pothead" to VIP with the discovery of the 1994 book Gates: How Microsoft's Mogul Reinvented an Industry—and Made Himself the Richest Man in America by PC Magazine's Stephen Manes and Seattle Times reporter Paul Andrews. While at Harvard in the early 1970s, during the days of sex and drugs and rock and roll, "I don't think I was unusual in any of those dimensions, plus or minus," Gates said in an interview on August 29, 1991. His record collection mostly consisted of albums by Seattle native Jimi Hendrix, foisted on him by Paul Allen with the catchphrase, "Are you experienced?"

The book states, "Marijuana was the pharmaceutical of choice, but in Znaimer's words, 'on a couple of well-planned isolated occasions we'd go off to the country and spend time contemplating the universe'." Gates told Playboy he did LSD in his interview with the magazine, published December 8, 1994.

Gates's Silicon Valley associates were of the era, and to this day, the computer industry shies away from employee drug testing, knowing it would eliminate some of their best talent. "These were the kind of guys (and, very, very rarely, gals) who would once have proclaimed that drugs would change the world, or composting toilets, or Earth Shoes, or strobe lights, or Eastern religions. Now they were all electronics engineers... who had somehow stumbled into the world of programming. But they were beginning to realize, with almost religious fervor, that hey, the thing that would really change the world—or at least one's own personal slice of it, which amounted to the same thing—was the computer." Of a meeting between IBM executives, "hippie software company" Microsoft, and operating system developers Intergalactic/Digital Research, Manes and Andrews wrote, "To the laid-back, jeans-wearing, late-hippie Digital Research stalwarts, they looked like representatives of the hated FBI-or narcs."

Bob Wallace, who the book describes as an "organizer, countercultural figure, and employee of Seattle's laid-back Retail Computer Store" became an early programmer for Microsoft, becoming the "wizard" with Pascal. After Wallace left the company in 1983, Microsoft lost much of its Pascal market share to Borland's Turbo version. Wallace was a supporter of drug policy reform groups during his lifetime.
Another one of Gates's associates, Blair Newman, once ran Amorphia, which sold rolling papers to fund the 1972 initiative drive to legalize marijuana in California. Newman worked at Shugard Associates, the developer of the 5 1/4-inch disk drive that "made microcomputers more than a toy" and turned up later at Apple Computer. At both companies he was seen as a visionary with brilliant ideas and an utter inability to execute them. Gates, who "was no stranger to drugs", met Newman on the speaking circuit, where Newman helped Gates with a speech and they became friends.

Gates's idol, the book states, is VIP Richard Feynman, of whom Gates said, "had his own way of thinking about things. He was his own guy who decided what counted and what did not, built his values around what he understood and not some artificial way of looking at things." At one point, he planned to meet with Feynman to discuss distributing a videotaped series of his lectures. "It's the coolest way to learn physics ever," Gates said. "It's funny. It's interesting. I'd love to give a lecture like that some day."

READ MORE:http://www.veryimportantpotheads.com/

[Bennyboy]

21. Picasso

"Opium, henbane, hashish, morphine, ether: all were ubiquitous in Picasso’s circle, and freely available at the local chemist’s or private fumiers around Paris. That the artist was stoned when he painted the 'Family of Saltimbanques,' and pictures like it, goes a long way towards explaining the lack of tension, the dulled eyes, the emotional isolation of individual figures and the dreamy mood of the Rose period." (from Richard Dorment's review of the first volume of John Richardson's Life of Picasso, Times Literary Supplement, September 13, 1991.)

Family of Saltimbanques,'


Read More: http://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/20centpa/20centpa-46665.html

[Bennyboy]

23. The Ganja Globes! (Hollyweird tokers)

ttp://www.veryimportantpotheads.com/

[GreenPartyVoter]

25. David (v. Goliath)

[Ishoutandscream2]

26. "Awrig, Mic, groove mah chick, awwrrr, rahhttt, riffff"

Keith Richards.

[RainDog]

28. not a stoner, but this is a keeper quote:

"In strict medical terms marijuana is far safer than many foods we commonly consume. It is physically impossible to eat enough marijuana to induce death. Marijuana, in its natural form, is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man."

-Francis L. Young, Administrative Law Judge of the US drug police DEA, September 6, 1988

[Yeshuah Ben Joseph]

29. I created the plant

That counts, right?

[ikri]

30. George Washington (possibly)

He farmed a number of crops including hemp prior to the revolutionary war and wrote in his diary in 1765 "Began to separate the Male from the Female hemp at Muddy hole--rather too late". I can't think of a reason that he'd be annoyed at that unless he was farming it for its recreational uses.

[sarge43]

31. Louie Armstrong n/t

[UTUSN]

36. Marc Antony. The Roman, not the Puerto Rican (or him, too, who knows!1) n/t