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"One good thing about music, when it hits you feel no pain"-Robert Nesta Marley

"Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual that the use of the drug itself." -President Jimmy Carter(8/2/77)

"It makes me smile when I think about the tons and tons of marijuana that we manage to grow and smoke in this country without getting caught. I believe that for every ton of grass we smoke, the world collectively is a little happier. " -Kyle Kushman, High Times

"The coming into awareness of each individuals higher self, his/her true self, this is the unification of all people, religions and races...
Millions of people will be drawn from ever nation and tongue with an 'uncommon mission', a sense of freedom and liberation." -Sistah Alika Selassie itations of jamaica and i - RASTAFARI, the 3rd itation

"If we were to read about spiritual things, it is only words... what is of greatest importance is that we have experience. Not words, not beliefs, but experience." -Dr. Albert Hofmann

"Make the most of the hemp seed and sow it everywhere"-George Washington

"Psychedelics awakened in people... a sense of the possibilities for exploring the mind and body, ...We discovered that fundamental change must be grounded in our ethical behavior, and in compassion followed by a systematic inner training. Those are the supports for long-lasting and integrated access to these transformative experiences." -Jack Kornfield, Tricycle, Fall 1996

"Like it's a healthy herbal medicine with multiple uses
Like it's burning sacred incense in the temple
Like it opens your mind and enhances your life...
Like it's a tool for learning and creative inspiration
Like it's an insight to gentleness, compassion and humor...
Like it's a weed, it should be free and plentiful...
Like it's too good to be bad and the laws are too bad to be good
Like it or not, the noble hemp plant will survive." -Jim Ryan, the Beatnik poet

"Here is the paradox of technological mysticism: to go out to the stars, one must go within and master one's own body, one's own brain, one's own DNA....
The mystical injunction for sever materialistic desire, to cut off worldly ambition, can now be restated neuro-genetically. " -Timothy Leary, Exo-Psychology

"The rational mind is a leftover vestige from Man's earlier stage of evolution, prior to the advent of rock'n'roll. "
-Johnny Rockit

"The Deadheads are doing the dance of life, and this, I would say, is the answer to the atom bomb! " -Joseph Campbell at a seminar with the Dead 1986

"Perhaps we do the minors of this country harm if First Amendment protections, which they will with age inherit fully, are chipped away in the name of their protection."
-Judge Reed

"Hope lies in dreams, in imagination and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality. "-Dr. Jonas Salk

"Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in it's beauty. " -Albert Einstein

"It's as though every one of us has had an experience of... the unity behind the unity behind the unity, and we each tend to think we understand more than the other person. That'd be o.k. if we lived more of what we experienced!"
-Elizabeth Gips, Scrapbook of a Haight Ashbury Pilgrim

NOTE: this is a political piece for a man who has been arrested 19 times and served time for serving marijuana to sick people. He ran for governor.
"This candidacy is about giving hope for the future, about empowerment of those people who have given up on voting in the past, about bringing back compassionate leadership in our state. It's about who we are as a people and where we are going as a nation." -Dennis Peron

"Each time a person stands up for an ideal or the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, they send out a tiny ripple of hope." -Robert F. Kennedy

"The more I attempted to 'be me' the more 'me's' I found
there were. I now see that 'being me' means acknowledging
all that I feel at the moment, and then taking responsibility for my actions by consciously choosing which level of my feelings I am going to respond to."-Hugh Prather

"I was born to catch dragons in their dens And pick flowers To tell tales and laugh away the morning To drift and dream like a lazy stream And walk barefoot across sunshine days." -James Kavanaugh

"What we need to do to get marijuana into the hands of the truly suffering is remove the federal controls on marijuana so the states can determine this issue for themselves." -For the second Congressional session in a row, Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) introduced legislation to provide for the medical use of marijuana. The bill is cited as H.R. 1782, the "Medical Use of Marijuana Act."