It was easy because we basically paid for it ourselves, you know ? and Tommy Chong esteemed producer/director, Lou Adler, is an expert at marketing, so it was Lou’s genius that got the movie to where it is … Most of them, they did n’t even know what pot was in those days.

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If more people were stoned there would be less violence in the world.

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When you smoke marijuana, you are in the moment and you are happy. You forget about any worries of the past or the future.

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I want my ashes either with some really good primo or as some fertilizer for plants.

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Something good always happens at 4:20 for me.

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

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When you hit a groove, it's not you; it's the spirit world. The spirits whisper the ideas in your brain and prod you along. They're the ones that are really happy.

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To be in a situation where you have no rights whatsoever is something I wish everybody could experience. People's attitudes would change. It would be a better place.

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I really love what [Donald] Trump is doing. He is doing a great job of exposing the republicans for what they really are.

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

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We have receptors in our brain as you well know and when you ingest marijuana, I believe that it essentially gives you a reboot.

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Awakening your spiritual side is really what artists do. When you hit a groove, it's not you; it's the spirit world.

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The good thing about poverty is it keeps you from getting in trouble because if you can't afford drugs, people will stop giving them to you very quickly. So, being poor really helps - it's the success that kills you.

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By making marijuana illegal, the agricultural people can't grab hold of it like they did with corn and wheat. So those companies are scrambling around trying to get hold of it, but they can't, because it's a cottage industry, and it will always be a cottage industry. Because the minute the big companies try to make it their own, like they did with soybeans...like Monsanto, they put their own patent on seeds, and you can't do that with marijuana.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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Boredom is a disease, too.

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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.

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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.

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