420 Wisdom: Weed Quotes From Your Favorite Musicians

In August of 1964, Bob Dylan reportedly introduced The Beatles to marijuana. Before the decade ended, The Beatles would go on to make Help!, Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, The White Album, and Abbey Road. Just saying.

Weed and music have always gone together, so this 4/20 we take a look at some stoner wisdom in the form of quotes from pro-marijuana musicians.

"I don’t mind being an advocate for weed. It’s not as bad as tobacco, alcohol or firearms, for that matter. There’s no reason it shouldn’t be legalized. You can make all kinds of stuff out of hemp. I think the cure for cancer’s probably in cannabis—who knows?"

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"The only thing pot does for me is it gets me to stop thinking. Sometimes I have a brain that needs to be turned off. Some people are just better high."

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"I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong?"

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"It’s an accompaniment to life. It’s not something that I do to rap; I smoke when I open my eyes...I don’t know any other feeling."

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On auditioning for Degrassi... after smoking weed for the first time:

"That was the first audition I went on, and it was like a real pivotal day of my life... but it was also the day that I got accepted by these real cool Jewish kids at school. They were finally like, ‘Yo, come over. And I had this really tug-of-war moment where I actually did something I probably shouldn’t have done, that starts with a 'w 'and ends with 'eed.' I started really getting paranoid. I thought I’d just completely ruined my whole life. I was splashing water on my face constantly, it was like a Clearasil commercial. I showed up to the audition and got just a little less paranoid, and went in and did what I could. And just was like devastated, and couldn’t tell my mom, but I ended up getting the call back and getting the role."

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On his method for lighting up: "Nothing special, but I do blunts, cigarellos, pipes, bongs, bowls, I'll smoke out of an old Timberland boot if you can rig it up and get some weed some out of it. I'll smoke that. Man, I've been saying that for years, so I might just try to make me a Timberland boot contraption that you can smoke weed out of. I think I'm gonna try it."

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"I think weed is the best drug on earth. One time I smoked a joint with peyote in it, and I saw a wolf howling at the moon. Hollywood is a coke town, but weed is so much better. And molly, too. Those are happy drugs – social drugs. They make you want to be with friends. You're out in the open."

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"It really puzzles me to see Marijuana connected with narcotics—dope and all that kind of crap... it’s actually a shame... First place, it’s a thousand times better than whiskey... it’s an assistant."

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"That’s why I’m posting pictures of myself smoking pot, to tell the truth about myself. I’ve got so much to think about, why bring all this extra shit by being dishonest?"

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"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."

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"I was a little too antsy, I was jumping around, wanting to go here, wanting to be there. Once I started smoking weed, I just wanted to stay and play the video game and rap. You spend good time with your daughter, man, after you go smoke, chill with your daughter. You’re willing to do whatever she want to do."

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"I support decriminalisation [British spelling]. People are smoking pot anyway and to make them into criminals is wrong. It's when you're in jail you really become a criminal."

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"I’m a big PAX person... just because it’s accessible. I feel like between the weed and the wax it’s kind of like BetaMax and VHS. You can carry it around, people don’t really know what it is, no smell."

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"Weed is going to bring us together as a generation. Drugs is what created Woodstock. Let's be clear about that."

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Mike Tyson’s biggest regret about his and 2Pac’s friendship: not smoking weed with him.

"He always wanted me to smoke weed with him, and I never did it, and I wish I did...That's my biggest regret."

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