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?
That was nostalgic for me. Thanks :).
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.
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”