![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 marijuana 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 [28g] of marijuana.](/assets/img/quote-photos/penalties-against-possession-of-a-drug-should-not-be-more-damaging-to-an-individu.jpg)
Related Quotes
weed strong roots
He that has energy enough in his constitution to root out a vice should go a little further, and try to plant a virtue in its place; otherwise he will have his labor to renew. A strong soil that has produced weeds may be made to produce wheat with far less difficulty than it would cost to make it produce nothing. Charles Caleb Colton
weed character interesting
You are always training yourself to be, mind and body, as clear as crystal, and you always are, and never change; whereas I am a muddy, solitary, moping weed. Charles Dickens
weed nature wall
Huge knots of sea-weed hung upon the jagged and pointed stones, trembling in every breath of wind; and the green ivy clung mournfully round the dark and ruined battlements. Behind it rose the ancient castle, its towers roofless, and its massive walls crumbling away, but telling us proudly of its own might and strength, as when, seven hundred years ago, it rang with the clash of arms, or resounded with the noise of feasting and revelry.
weed missionary doe
Where the plow does not go and the seed is not sown, the weeds are sure to multiply. Charles Spurgeon
weed sweet writing
As an artist, there's a sweet, jump-starting quality to [marijuana] for me. I've often felt telepathic and receptive to inexplicable messages my whole life. I can stave those off when I'm not high. When I'm high - well, they come in and there's less of a veil, so to speak. So if ever I need some clarity, or a quantum leap in my own consciousness, or a quantum leap in terms of writing something or getting an answer, it's a quick way for me to get it. Alanis Morissette
weed taken self
It is also in despair of being able to understand or make any productive contribution to the highly organised chaos of our politico-economic system that large numbers of people simply abandon political and social committments. They just let society be taken over by a pattern of organisation which is as self-proliferative as a weed, and whose ends and values are neither human nor instinctive but mechanical. Alan Watts
weed flower computer
FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed - it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer. Alan Perlis
weed mean herbs
Weed's not as bad as everything else... 'cause weed is a background substance. You know what I mean, you can smoke some herb and still function. You ain't crisp... but you'll function. Dave Chappelle
weed drug cannabis
I don't do drugs, though. Just weed.
marijuana might sides
The only serious side-effect of # marijuana is that you might get arrested.
marijuana addiction serious
Marijuana addiction is a serious problem Chris Christie
marijuana sometimes good-things
Being defiant can be a good thing sometimes," Aunty Ifeoma said. "Defiance is like marijuana - it is not a bad thing when it is used right. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
marijuana pot release
Yes. And release prisoners who are incarcerated for pot. Mark Cuban
marijuana hell drink
I drink, you drink. Hell, if marijuana was legal, I'd appear in a commercial for that too. Billy Dee Williams
marijuana four dutch
But the Dutch speak four languages and smoke marijuana. Eddie Izzard
marijuana smoking enough
There are enough no smoking places now. David Hockney
marijuana smoking want
Smoking calms me down. It's enjoyable. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life.
marijuana drug leafs
That is not a drug. It's a leaf. Arnold Schwarzenegger
law knowing shy
Lawyers are shy of meddling with the Law on their own account: knowing it to be an edged tool of uncertain application, very expensive in the working, and rather remarkable for its properties of close shaving than for its always shaving the right person.
law justice water
In civil jurisprudence it too often happens that there is so much law, that there is no room for justice, and that the claimant expires of wrong in the midst of right, as mariners die of thirst in the midst of water.
law justice criminals
The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.
law land tree
The code of poor laws has at length grown up into a tree, which, like the fabulous Upas, overshadows and poisons the land; unwholesome expedients were the bud, dilemmas and depravities have been the blossom, and danger and despair are the bitter fruit.
law firsts revolution
If we trace the history of most revolutions, we shall find that the first inroads upon the laws have been made by the governors, as often as by the governed.
law genius talent
With the offspring of genius, the law of parturition is reversed; the throes are in the conception, the pleasure in the birth.
law would-be rays
You hear, Eugene?' said Lightwood over his shoulder. 'You are deeply interested in lime.' 'Without lime,' returned that unmoved barrister at law, 'my existence would be unilluminated by a ray of hope.
law principles bleak-house
The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.
law idiot ass
The law is an ass, an idiot.