Tommy Chong Quotes

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

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

I love to meet my fans, and after every show I usually hang out for a few hours, talking to my fans, signing autographs, and selling T-shirts.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Something good always happens at 4:20 for me.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Boredom is a disease, too.

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.

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

Jail was probably the most exciting thing that's ever happened to me.

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.

Cigarettes, I won't do cigarettes, nicotine will kill ya.

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

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.

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.

Musicians can travel all over the world and have an audience, because there's no language barrier.

Once you're a felon you're a target.

I've been a good boy, I've never really been convicted of serious crime.

Everything that happens to me is very cosmic.

One night all the James Brown band was playing on stage and I look in the back and I could see Mick Jagger and Keith Richards trying to get in the club and they couldn't get in cause it was to crowded.

Marijuana is a proven medicine.

I wish I could say farewell and retire but there is nothing for me to retire from.

I've always believed in the concept of retirement. I retired for the first time at age 18 ... from school. To me, retirement means doing what you want to do without worrying about getting paid for it.

Comedy is the ultimate truth. Jazz is hitting the notes that that no one else would hit, and comedy is saying words that no one else would say.

As soon as I discovered weightlifting, all I wanted to do - my plan in life - was to work out, lay on the beach, and get high... smoke dope. And that's really what I'm doing.

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

I'm as clean as a whistle.

You look at Cheney, Rumsfeld, Karl Rove, and Bush - if you saw them on Halloween, they wouldn't need a costume. You'd give them a treat and compliment them on what great-looking demons they were. They are demons. There's no doubt about it.

I only smoke maybe a nug a day.

Our tour is winding down and I was just thinking about what I want to do. I like growing so I think I might start growing again. As a medical marijuana patient, under California law I am licensed to grow 12 plants.

Any excuse to live in New York and do art. Has to be one of the most rewarding experiences in the world.

Religion is run by thought police. 'Obey. Listen. This is what you do. Don't ask questions. Go die for your country.' The spirituality says, 'Okay, you can die for your country, but know what you're doing while you're doing it.'

I've always been into improvisation.

There's a big shift in our whole way of living, and it started maybe 10 years ago when [smartphones] came into existence. Up until then, we were at the mercy of the press, and so-called experts that would tell us what to think and how to think.

Marijuana grows everywhere in the world. And it really is currency, if you think about it.

The Shades never recorded anything, Little Daddy and the Bachelors recorded a couple of records, ya.

Well I don't know, I might have lost my citizenship, I don't think you can lose your citizenship though.

If I don't get paid I'm going to take a whole lot of Marshall amps home with me on the plane.

I was more of a weightlifter.

I've always known, all my life, that I was going to be something special. I never knew what it was, but I always had that feeling. I think my mother installed it when I was a little guy.

I converted a family-owned strip club into an improvisational acting theater.