“Make the most of the Indian Hemp seed, and sow it everywhere!”
- George Washington, 1st U.S. President
(the “Father of our Country”)
“We shall, by and by, want a world of hemp more for our own consumption.”
- John Adams, U.S. President
“Hemp is of first necessity to the wealth & protection of the country.”
- Thomas Jefferson, U.S. President
“Prohibition… goes beyond the bound of reason in that it attempts to control a man’s appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded”
- Abraham Lincoln, U.S. President
“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
“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
“In any civilized society, it is every citizen’s responsibility to obey just laws. But at the same time, it is every citizen’s responsibility to disobey unjust laws.”
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
“Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others… he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current that sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.”
- Robert F. Kennedy, former U.S. Attorney General
“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.”
- Jimmy Carter, U.S. President
“Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.”
- Ronald Reagan, U.S. President
“Congress should definitely consider decriminalizing the possession of marijuana… We should focus on the rapists and burglars who are a menace to society.”
- Dan Quayle, Former Vice President
“The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.”
-Thomas Jefferson, U.S. President
“When people fear their governments, there is tyranny. When governments fear their people, there is liberty.”
- Thomas Jefferson, U.S. President
“When even one American, who has done nothing wrong, is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth, then all Americans are in peril.”
- Harry S. Truman, U.S. President
“And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.”
- Genesis 1:12, Holy Bible
“And I will raise up for them a plant of renown, and they shall be no more consumed with hunger in the land, neither bear the shame of the heathen any more.”
- Ezekiel 34:29, Holy Bible
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