Hemp is of first necessity to the wealth & protection of the country.
— Thomas Jefferson
Most Powerful Cool Smoking quotations
We shall, by and by, want a world of hemp more for our own consumption.

I enjoy smoking cannabis and see no harm in it

When a private enterprise fails, it is closed down;
when a government enterprise fails, it is expanded. Isn't that exactly what's been happening with drugs?
When I was a kid, I inhaled. Frequently. That was the point.
I think pot should be legal. I don’t smoke it, but I like the smell of it.

When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didnt like it, and I didnt inhale, and I never tried again.
Growing up, I'd already decided I wanted to be a beatnik.
A Bohemian poet, I thought. Or a musician. Maybe an artist. I'd dress in black turtlenecks and smoke Gitanes. I'd listen to cool jazz in clubs, getting up to read devastating truths from my notebook, leaning against the microphone, cigarette dangling from my hand.
If John Lennon is deported, I'm leaving too...with my musicians..and my marijuana.

October arrives in a swirl of fragrant blue leaf smoke, the sweetness of slightly frosted MacIntosh apples, and little hard acorns falling. We are in the midst of cool crisp days, purple mists, and Nature recklessly tossing her whole palette of dazzling tones through fields and woodlands.
I experimented with marijuana a time or two.
Smoking is, if not my life, then at least my hobby.
I love to smoke. Smoking is fun. Smoking is cool. Smoking is, as far as I am concerned, the entire point of being an adult.

In France, everyone speaks French 'cause they think it's cool.
Gives 'em, gives 'em an excuse to smoke.
When the movies first started, audiences were dumbstruck to see actresses walking around in evening gowns. They'd never seen anything like that. They wanted to be like those actors and actresses, so the movies informed their behavior. A lot of people started drinking martinis and smoking cigarettes because they felt it was cool.
Kenneth Rexroth took me under his wing for a brief period.
I was fifteen years old, and I was smoking a lot of heroin and trying to be cool, man, and I really loved poetry. And Kenneth convinced me that destroying myself was not really the best possible solution, and that I needed to look at the world's literature, and not just my own life, in order to be hip, if you will. So he had a huge influence on what became of me thereafter.

Alright guys, I want to get out there and vote tomorrow.
And not because it's cool, because it's not. You know what is cool? Smoking. Smoke while you vote.
I was uncomfortable with smoking too much because a lot of young kids watch and I didn't want to make that cool.
Snobbery might sometimes look cool, like smoking, but the end result is usually a repelling one.
Slinky as a lynx, hot as pepper, cool as rain, dry as smoke.
There's considerably more to her than staying sexy at 60.
We are in a fool's climate, accidentally kept cool by smoke, and before this century is over billions of us will die and the few breeding pairs of people that survive will be in the Arctic where the climate remains tolerable.
I don’t smoke, although it looks fantastic in films.
But I light matches on those thinking blank nights when I crawl my route out onto the roof of the garage and the sky while my parents sleep innocent and the lonely cars move sparse on the faraway streets, when the pillow won’t stay cool and the blankets bother my body no matter how I move or lie still. I just sit with my legs dangling and light matches and watch them flicker away.