Louis Armstrong Quotes

"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." - Louis Armstrong

Louis Armstrong Quotes

"At first it was just a misdemeanor, but then you lost the "mis-de" and you just got meaner and meaner.." - Louis Armstrong (A reference to the anti-marijuana laws of the 1930s)

Louis Armstrong Quotes

"It makes you feel good, man, makes you forget all the bad things that happen to a Negro. It makes you feel wanted, and when you're with another tea smoker, it makes you feel a special kinship." - Louis Armstrong

Louis Armstrong Quotes

"I spent nine days in the Downtown Los Angeles City Jail. The judge gave me a suspended sentence and I went to work that night - wailed just like nothing happened. What strucked me funny though - I laughed real loud when several movie stars came up to the bandstand while we played a dance set and told me, when they heard about me getting caught with marijuana, they thought marijuana was a chick. Woo boy - that really fractured me!" - Louis Armstrong

Louis Armstrong Quotes

"We did call ourselves vipers, which could have been anybody from all walks of life that smoked and respected gage. That was our cute little name for marijuana, and it was a misdemeanor in those days. Much different from the pressure and charges the law lays on a guy who smokes pot - a later name for the same thing. We always looked at pot as a sort of medicine, a cheap drunk and with much better thoughts than one that's full of liquor." - Louis Armstrong