George Washington toked weed!

[Storm Crow]

Thomas Jefferson's Garden Journal. In it were 3 references to hemp. Two were "plant more" and the third was expressing regret that he wouldn't be home for the hemp harvest. Make of it what you will! - Granny:hippy:

[Tomorrow Never Knows]

Jefferson would smoke mad bud and then fuck black chicks. Nowadys you would call him a wigger.

[Oneironaut]

We're gonna need a little more evidence than just the fact that he grew hemp. Tonnes of farmers have grown hemp, and obviously it doesn't get you high. One does not necessitate the other.

Modern industrial hemp doesn't get you high, because it's been specifically bred not to have significant amounts of THC in it. The kind that was grown by Washington and Jefferson back in the 18th century was surely just regular cannabis with regular THC levels in it.

However, it's still rather unlikely that they ever smoked it. It just wasn't known in western European and American cultures of the time as a plant that would get you intoxicated if you smoked it. There's no mention of cannabis smoking in the literature of the time, and no historical evidence of cannabis smoking devices or anything like that. And of course, farmers didn't just smoke their crops to see what would happen. So chances are they never even knew they were growing a drug.

It wasn't until the early decades of the 20th century that cannabis smoking really became known in the US, being brought here by Mexican immigrant workers.

[Oil_Man]

hell bennie frankin was probly toasted too when he flew his kite in a thunderstorm

hey, im pretty sure ben franklin did these are part of the lyrics in a
song by tenacious D - The goverment totally sucks

Ben Franklin was a rebel indeed
He liked to get naked while he smoked on the weed
He was a genius but if he was here today
The government would fuck him up his righteous aayyy

If its in a song its gotta be true

[MisterGreen]

well, clinton did...but he didn't inhale.

[Oneironaut]

So did Bush. CNN.com - Author: I should give tapes to Bush - Feb 21, 2005

Bush says he "wouldn't answer the marijuana question ... 'cause I don't want some little kid doing what I tried."

"But you gotta understand, I want to be president, I want to lead. I want to set -- Do you want your little kid to say, 'Hey daddy, President Bush tried marijuana, I think I will?' " he said.

[timothylearyisdead]

Actually in George Washingtons journal, he wrote about how he used to seperate the male hemp plants from the females. George smoked man! Look it up!

[on_second_thought]

Modern industrial hemp doesn't get you high, because it's been specifically bred not to have significant amounts of THC in it. The kind that was grown by Washington and Jefferson back in the 18th century was surely just regular cannabis with regular THC levels in it.

However, it's still rather unlikely that they ever smoked it. It just wasn't known in western European and American cultures of the time as a plant that would get you intoxicated if you smoked it. There's no mention of cannabis smoking in the literature of the time, and no historical evidence of cannabis smoking devices or anything like that. And of course, farmers didn't just smoke their crops to see what would happen. So chances are they never even knew they were growing a drug.

It wasn't until the early decades of the 20th century that cannabis smoking really became known in the US, being brought here by Mexican immigrant workers.

what about the indians? they've been smoking the shit forever. they were here (in america) before us. so how would we not know anything about it until the 20th century. that doesn't sound right.

[Iplaybass182]

I believe he might have if you recall back in school they always told you how he had horrible teeth, but have you everwondered about the pain involved. Plus the first laws ever invoving MJ were it was required to be grown if you were a liciensed farmer.

[Oneironaut]

Actually in George Washingtons journal, he wrote about how he used to seperate the male hemp plants from the females. George smoked man! Look it up!

Yeah, so? Farmers do that with lots of crops, for various reasons. If he was smoking it, wouldn't he have written something about that in his journal somewhere? And wouldn't there be some kind of historical evidence that somebody somewhere in America was smoking cannabis at the time? We have plenty of evidence that people were drinking alcohol and smoking opium and tobacco. They wrote about these drugs, painted pictures about them, and left artifacts for historians to find. But there's just no evidence that colonial Americans had any idea cannabis was a drug.

what about the indians? they've been smoking the shit forever. they were here (in america) before us. so how would we not know anything about it until the 20th century. that doesn't sound right.

Cannabis is an Old World plant, native to central Asia. It wasn't until the Europeans arrived that it was grown in the Americas.