Quote Originally Posted by 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!
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.
Quote Originally Posted by on_second_thought
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.