I never actually smoked with any of the presidents.

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

Well, I started out as a musician, so when I was about 10 years old, I was already in a band.

The smartest billionaires I know never finished high school. I got my degree and my doctorate on the street and an advanced degree in jail.

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.

I do have a plan for the country [the USA]. It needs education. And there should be drug education - only people should be taught how to smoke pot, because even potheads don't know how to smoke pot. I've evolved into not only an activist, but an educator. I want to show people how, when, and why they should smoke pot.

We survived Nixon and Reagan and George Bush, and so we can survive anything that comes along.