John Walters Quotes

'Cause I was already a smoker, it was easy to get addicted. The one thing that they don't teach you about marijuana is how addictive it is.

I never did smoke that much pot; never was a big pothead.

Continuous use [of marijuana] leads directly to the insane asylum.

Marijuana is a much bigger part of the American addiction problem than most people - teens or adults - realize.

Smoking Marijuana does not lead to addiction.

I was a stonehead for 30 years. I'd wake up in the morning and if I couldn't decide whether I wanted a joint or not, I'd smoke a joint to figure it out. And I stayed high all day long.

I also smoke a lot of pot, occasionally, every day.

In recent years, we have been sending a clear, consistent signal about the harms of drugs, particularly marijuana, which for most young people is the first illegal drug that they are exposed to.

Marijuana Menace …. If Frankenstein came face to face with someone high on marijuana, he would drop dead of freight.

You can either be in the Ron Paul tradition and say there's nothing wrong with heroin and cocaine, or you can be in the tradition that says, 'These kind of addictive drugs are terrible; they deprive you of full citizenship, and they lead you to a dependency which is antithetical to being an American.'

I was hiding out from the celebrity thing, I was smoking way too much [marijuana].

I was a big pothead for a short period. That was what ticked me off that I shouldn't go near hard drugs, actually, because I would consume the stuff as if it was going out of style and it rapidly occurred to me that if I ever tried a hard drug, the same thing would happen, so I never did.

Marijuana addiction is a serious problem

To my surprise, my marijuana use has been tapering off steadily.

I smoke marijuana every chance I get.

I experimented with marijuana a time or two.

Hats off to drug abusers everywhere.

Like pregnant women lose their teeth feeding the stranger, junkies lose their yellow fangs feeding the monkey.

Junk turns the user into a plant. Plants do not feel pain since pain has no function in a stationary organism. Junk is a pain killer. A plant has no libido in the human or animal sense. Junk replaces the sex drive. Seeding is the sex of the plant and the function of opium is to delay seeding. Perhaps the intense discomfort of withdrawal is the transition from plant back to animal, from a painless, sexless, timeless state back to sex and pain and time, from death back to life.

I wasn't eating. I wasn't sleeping. All I was doing was cocaine. I stayed awake for about two weeks, locked in my bedroom. I went down from a 142 pounds to 110 pounds.

I did everything but drink the bong water when I was young.

I'm gonna try to be cured. I've been on heroin eight years and I want to try a different style of life. It made me split up from my wife. It ruined a lot of things for me.

I realize now that taking drugs was like taking an aspirin without having a headache.

I can understand the drug thing. So they feel that it's more important to take the drugs than to do a good show for the people.

The only merciful thing about drug abuse is the speed with which it devastates you. Alcoholics can take decades to destroy themselves and everyone they touch. The drug addict can accomplish this in a year or two. Of course, suicide is even more efficient.