Tommy Chong Quotes

So (legalizing marijuana) means a lot more to me than just being able to smoke a joint without being arrested.

And I don't really drink alot of booze, alcohol will kill ya.

.. but I smoke all the pot I can find, I don't smoke it all at once, I just do a little bit at a time, and I uh, I used to take acid but I quit around 1971.

You can smoke marijuana, you can eat it, you can wear it, it's a perfect plant!

The smartest billionaires I know never finished high school.

I got my degree and my doctorate on the street and an advanced degree in jail.

I was about sixteen when I discovered that music could get you laid, so I got into music boy, didn't matter what you looked like either, you could be a geeky looking guy but if you played music, whoa, you'd get the girls.

When you smoke marijuana, you are in the moment and you are happy.

You forget about any worries of the past or the future.

Awakening your spiritual side is really what artists do.

When you hit a groove, it's not you; it's the spirit world.

Unfortunately, the American justice system is just riddled with lies and inconsistencies.

Jail was probably the most exciting thing that's ever happened to me.

Cigarettes, I won't do cigarettes, nicotine will kill ya.

I really love what [Donald] Trump is doing.

He is doing a great job of exposing the republicans for what they really are.

Because the pot takes the edge off the adrenaline, and it also clears your mind of it, and then you can see things a lot clearer.

Musicians can travel all over the world and have an audience, because there's no language barrier.

I've been a good boy, I've never really been convicted of serious crime.

I've always believed in the concept of retirement.

I retired for the first time at age 18 ... from school. To me, retirement means doing what you want to do without worrying about getting paid for it.

Comedy is the ultimate truth. Jazz is hitting the notes that that no one else would hit, and comedy is saying words that no one else would say.

One night all the James Brown band was playing on stage and I look in the back and I could see Mick Jagger and Keith Richards trying to get in the club and they couldn't get in cause it was to crowded.

As soon as I discovered weightlifting, all I wanted to do - my plan in life - was to work out, lay on the beach, and get high... smoke dope. And that's really what I'm doing.

I wish I could say farewell and retire but there is nothing for me to retire from.

I do believe that [Bill] Clinton never inhaled ...because when I met him, he had no idea who I was.

It's like love making, the foreplay is the biggest part, the same thing as comedy. If you can frame your show in such a way that the funny jokes become funnier.

Our tour is winding down and I was just thinking about what I want to do.

I like growing so I think I might start growing again. As a medical marijuana patient, under California law I am licensed to grow 12 plants.

Any excuse to live in New York and do art. Has to be one of the most rewarding experiences in the world.

There's a big shift in our whole way of living, and it started maybe 10 years ago when [smartphones] came into existence. Up until then, we were at the mercy of the press, and so-called experts that would tell us what to think and how to think.

Religion is run by thought police. 'Obey. Listen. This is what you do. Don't ask questions. Go die for your country.' The spirituality says, 'Okay, you can die for your country, but know what you're doing while you're doing it.'

Well I don't know, I might have lost my citizenship, I don't think you can lose your citizenship though.

I think the most important thing that marijuana does is it affects the brain.

There is an intelligence factor that works with the spoken word. With words, you have to understand meaning and nuances and things like that. You have to be able to relate...but with music it's just music.

I'm dancing tango, and I'm playing golf, and I'm quite active, you know, and for my age and everything, and what I've gone through, I'm very happy.

We won a contest at the teen fair in Vancouver and the first prize was a recording contract and we recorded at a radio station on the stairway, and we did a record and it got put out.

Bernie Sanders is all about being humane and loving to each other.

I'd rather have my kid smoking pot than drinking.

Well, I had an after hours club in Vancouver and when any of the Motown acts would call.

[Donald Trump] is a true republican: he is hypocritical and two-faced, he's a liar, a cheat, and a thief and the more he speaks, the more his real character shows.

You know that old joke about potheads having bad memories? Well, the bad memories are like pain, discomfort, and fear. So you lose all that, and the body reacts by healing faster and stronger.

I never did smoke that much pot; never was a big pothead.

When Mexicans sneak across the border, they're more apt to carry a bag of pot then they are a fistful of money. Because the pot can be exchanged for money, anywhere in America. Anywhere in the world!

Marijuana has become like currency. Anytime you grow a crop like marijuana, or wheat, or corn, or anything that people consume on a daily basis, you're [getting] into a huge economic area.

Cheech [Marine] on the other hand, met [Barack] Obama and he knew right away who Cheech was. So that should tell you something.

People didn't relate to me as being Chinese or white, just being a hippie, a long-haired hippie.

When they put me in jail, that's when they turned me into an activist. Up until the time I went to jail, I was just a comedian.

I believe that all marijuana is medical.

I do have a plan for the country [the USA]. It needs education. And there should be drug education - only people should be taught how to smoke pot, because even potheads don't know how to smoke pot. I've evolved into not only an activist, but an educator. I want to show people how, when, and why they should smoke pot.

Marijuana grows everywhere in the world. And it really is currency, if you think about it.

But you can't exercise and be high. It's impossible.

Look at all the drug busts all over the country. There must be an audience there somewhere. My feeling is that if we're losing the war on drugs, let's do a movie for the enemy.

I used to joke for years that I was a black man. I adopted the black culture, the black race. I married a black woman, and I had black kids. I always considered myself a 'brother.'

Just the thought of anything Hawaiian gets me high! I appreciate the good cannabis that people have spent years perfecting but I also enjoy the cheap stuff. I guess you could say I like it all.

Well, I started out as a musician, so when I was about 10 years old, I was already in a band.