Ok, this might be the dumbest thing I’ve ever posted, but didn’t native American populations know about smoking herb? Isn’t that what was in those peace pipes?
[QUOTE=Diogenes the Cynic]
Absolutely George toked weed. Are you kidding me man. He grew fields of fields of that stuff man. That’s what I’m talking about. Fields. The whole country back then was getting high. Let me tell you man, 'cos, 'cos, 'cos he knew. He was on to something man. He knew that it would be a good cash crop for the southern states man. So he grew fields of it man. But you know what? Behind every good man there’s a woman. And that woman was Martha Washington man. And every day George would come home. She’d have a big fat bowl waiting for him man when he’d come in the door man. She was hip, hip, hip lady man.
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That was nostalgic for me. Thanks :).
[QUOTE=Cluricaun]
Ok, this might be the dumbest thing I’ve ever posted, but didn’t native American populations know about smoking herb? Isn’t that what was in those peace pipes?
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They may have known about smoking herb, but that was tobacco in the peace pipes.
“The Pursuit of Happiness” was totally a euphenism for getting high, duh.
[QUOTE=Atomicktom]
This, I’m aware of. But can you grow hemp without growing buds? How are those plants related?
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Hemp and marijuana are different breeds of the same plant. The hemp that colonial farmers were cultivating would have been crap for smoking, just like industrial hemp today. There may have been Mexican peasants toking up on the good stuff three thousand miles away, but there was very little trade between the Spanish and English colonies, and nobody up north knew or cared.
But hashish has been known for thousands of years, someone somewhere must have put two and two together and said “You know Jebadiah, let’s go twist up some of those rope plants and go catch a minuet show”