With outspoken and unlearned New Jersey Governor Chris Christie stepping up his attack on legal cannabis on the presidential campaign trail, and with the clown show known as the first Republican debate coming up this week, we felt it was the perfect time to wrangle up some heinous, ridiculous, and in some cases contradictory quotes from the former prosecutor and enduring ignoramus from the Garden State.

“I know you think it’s easy, but it’s not easy for me. I’m trying to represent the people of this state, all of the people.” -August 2013, facing the parent of a patient pleading for the governor to support medical marijuana

“We will end the failed war on drugs that believes that incarceration is the cure of every ill caused by drug abuse … We will make drug treatment available to as many of our non-violent offenders as we can and we will partner with our citizens to create a society that understands that every life has value and no life is disposable.” -January 2014

“I don’t believe that legalizing an illegal drug for purposes of governmental profit is something that we should be doing. I believe that this is a gateway drug into other more serious drugs, I think it sends a wrong message to our kids and I don’t think it makes anybody a better or more productive person.”  -March 2014

“If there becomes a large adult population that needs this type of edible [medical marijuana], I’ll consider it.” -April 2014

“I am not going to turn our state into a place where people fly [in] to get high … If people want legalized marijuana in the state, elect a new governor.” -April 2014

“For the people who are enamored with the idea with the income, the tax revenue from this, go to Colorado and see if you want to live there.  See if you want to live in a major city in Colorado where there’s head shops popping up on every corner and people flying into your airport just to come and get high. To me, it’s just not the quality of life we want to have here in the state of New Jersey and there’s no tax revenue that’s worth that.” -April 2014

“Why don’t you go call President Obama, get his opinion? Why don’t you bring the weed truck out in front of the White House and tell me how it goes.” -March 2015, in response to Ed “NJ Weedman” Forchion, who asked the governor, “When are you going to stop arresting people for weed?”

“This should not be permitted in our society, it sends the wrong message. Every bit of objective data tells us that it’s a gateway drug to other drugs. And it is not an excuse in our society to say that alcohol is legal so why not make marijuana legal. Well, why not make heroin legal? Why not make cocaine legal? You know, their argument is a slippery slope. To me, that’s blood money. I’m not going to put the lives of children and citizens at risk to put a little more money into the state coffers, at least not on my watch.” -March 2015

“Marijuana is against the law in the states and it should be enforced in all 50 states. That’s the law and the Christie administration will support it.” -July 2015

“If you’re getting high in Colorado today, enjoy it. As of January 2017, I will enforce the federal laws.” -July 2015