Great post/user name combo.
These days… but that was not exclusively the case 40 years ago.
I believe that the smoking weed was only an “American Indian” thing at the time. They appear to have gotten a kick out of burning just about anything, huffing away at it and encouraging others to do the same. Just like kids do today.
One of the tour guides told our group that Laudanum was the drug of choice at Mt. Vernon.