# Do People Still Do Old Drugs?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 8, 2009, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-still-do-old-drugs/520456 "2009-12-08T15:23:58Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 14, 2009, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-still-do-old-drugs/520456/46 "2009-12-14T03:48:33Z")

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> [@wierdaaron](#):
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> People have been smoking marijuana since Ancient China, five thousand years ago, so I don’t think you can find anything much older than that..

There’s evidence of hemp use that’s very old. I know of no evidence for smoking marijuana that goes back that far.

Or as Una said in another thread:

> [@Washington, Jefferson & hemp](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/washington-jefferson-hemp/520887/19):
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> As a general sidebar, in helping to research this column I found it almost a point of ironic despair that most all of the same websites, blogs, and whatever dedicated to showing how useful hemp could be for everything _except_ smoking (you can like, make clothes, and paper, and, um, hovercrafts out of it) go out of their way to claim without strong evidence that two of the early backers of hemp as a non-drug _must_ have been smoking it to get high.

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