Drug Comparison Quotes

Yes, cannabis is dangerous, but no more than other perfectly legal drugs. It's time for a rethink

Smoking marijuana, as long as you leave the nicotine out of it, is certainly no more damaging than having a drink, and I suspect better for you than having a drink.

Cocaine is totally different than steroids.

Pot is a better drug than alcohol. I'll prove it to you. You're at a ball game or a concert, and someone's really violent and agressive and obnoxious, are they drunk or are they smoking pot?

Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain as marijuana. The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two but can't remember what they are.

Television, while chemically non-invasive, nevertheless is every bit as addicting and physiologically damaging as any other drug.

We go on a lot in this country about offences being caused by drugs. The truth is just as many offences are caused by drink. And that should be taken into account.

I'm for legalizing marijuana. Why pick on those drugs? Valium is legal. You just go to a doctor and get it and overdose on it - what's the difference? Prozac, all that stuff, so why not marijuana? Who cares? It's something that grows out of the ground - why not? Go smoke a head of cabbage. I don't care what you smoke.

The worst drug of today is not smack or pot - it's refined sugar.

I don't think [pot] is more dangerous than alcohol.

The charm of smoking a cigarette from the point of view of the people who smoked them, and I was one of those people for many, many years, is an amazing pleasure and a hit that some people say, and I've never done heroin, but some people say that it rivals the heroin hit, so there is that pleasure. The-it kills you the same way that heroin kills you.

Sleep is like a drug. Take too much at a time and it makes you dopey. You lose time and opportunities.

Nicotine is as addicting as heroin or cocaine.

I’m sure a lot of you have tripped out on alcohol. It’s a lot safer to do it on marijuana

I'm not a great pothead or anything like that... but weed is much, much less dangerous than alcohol.

I don't consider weed to be any worse than having a beer.

Pot is to narcotics what herpes is to social diseases; it doesn't count cos it's not really dangerous and it's too easy to get.

I've never smoked crack. I've never done most things, drug-wise. But I assume that the experience I had watching Lost is the experience that crack addicts have smoking crack.

It really puzzles me to see marijuana connected with narcotics dope and all of that stuff. It is a thousand times better than whiskey. It is an assistant and a friend.

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. You're not in a bathroom.

People say you can abuse marijuana. You can abuse cheeseburgers. Does that mean we should close Burger Kings.

Sometimes when I’m flying over the Alps I think, 'that’s like all the cocaine I sniffed.'

Sugar is responsible for a lot of deaths. Arguably more than crack cocaine.

Prescription drugs can be even worse than illegal drugs. The only difference is the legality.

Never have so many been so high so often. When a Boston research group decided to compare the effects of marijuana on experienced and inexperienced users, it took them two months to line up nine student subjects who had never used marijuana.