rhys 0 #1 October 9, 2008 I wonder how much of the stuff they smoked. They wouldn't have been growing high potency stuff, or were they? It was not until early last century that cannabis was prohibited, in fact it wasn't prohibited until after alcohol was. The Cotton and Plastic (oil) industry campained to have it made illegal and til this day it remains so. http://www.friendsofcannabis.com/friends/us_presidents.htm http://www.hempcar.org/washington.shtml"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, then the world will see peace." - 'Jimi' Hendrix Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rhys 0 #2 October 9, 2008 Why does it not surprise me that the only two other votes other than mine(at this stage), are from people that do not know they grew cannabis? These people (the forfathers) developed your country and the very industry that got the USA on its feet is not taught about in mainstream education."When the power of love overcomes the love of power, then the world will see peace." - 'Jimi' Hendrix Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Misternatural 0 #3 October 9, 2008 sigh, industrial weed has so many uses. If the feds legalize it for industrial use i can grow it here to make biodiesel, hemp seed oil, and the seeds are friggin delicious! then burn the stalks for fuel. The year was '83 I was studying agriculture -and a patch of hemp grew down by the local river and locals were selling it to unsuspecting college students- smelled like it, but all it gave them was a headache. I imagine thats what Jefferson and Washington were growing.Beware of the collateralizing and monetization of your desires. D S #3.1415 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Butters 0 #4 October 9, 2008 Just like there is a difference between cotton plants there is a difference between marijuana plants ... hemp will not get you high."That looks dangerous." Leopold Stotch Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rhys 0 #5 October 9, 2008 QuoteThe year was '83 I was studying agriculture -and a patch of hemp grew down by the local river and locals were selling it to unsuspecting college students- smelled like it, but all it gave them was a headache. I imagine thats what Jefferson and Washington were growing. Indusrial hemp is constantly monitered to ensure the THC levels are low. In the 1700's I don't think they would have had these limitations on the plants, do you? http://www.marijuanalibrary.org/7_presidents.html#41#41 QuoteDid the Founding Fathers of the United States of America smoke cannabis? Some researchers think so. Dr. Burke, president of the American Historical Reference Society and a consultant for the Smithsonian Institute, counted seven early presidents as cannabis smokers: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, Andrew Jackson, Zachary Taylor and Franklin Pierce. 41 "Early letters from our founding fathers refer to the pleasures of hemp smoking," said Burke. Pierce, Taylor and Jackson, all military men, smoked it with their troops. Cannabis was twice as popular among American soldiers in the Mexican War as in Vietnam: Pierce wrote to his family that it was "about the only good thing" about that war. "When the power of love overcomes the love of power, then the world will see peace." - 'Jimi' Hendrix Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jdfreefly 1 #6 October 9, 2008 They thought they could create a country where people would intelligently elect their leaders. They stated that all men were created equal, but each slave was worth 3/5ths of a vote. They thought that liberty was the most important thing, more important than safety or equality. They were clearly stoned out of their gourds. Methane Freefly - got stink? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
zoom1 0 #7 October 9, 2008 of course they did slaves and poor farmers who could not afford tobacco would save the female plants (buds) and smoke that. george w was said to like the taste of bud over tobacco and smoked bud instead.( thats washington not bush, from the way bush acts i think he smokes crack) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rhys 0 #8 October 9, 2008 Quote"Two of my favorite things are sitting on my front porch smoking a pipe of sweet hemp, and playing my Hohner harmonica." Abraham Lincoln, 1855 "When the power of love overcomes the love of power, then the world will see peace." - 'Jimi' Hendrix Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
vortexring 0 #9 October 10, 2008 Going by yer conspiracy posts I wonder if yer either receiving the derived oils by an IV source or you're connected to the moon by thin copper. 'for it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "chuck 'im out, the brute!" But it's "saviour of 'is country" when the guns begin to shoot.' Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rhys 0 #10 October 10, 2008 I suppose this is another conspiracy? they never grew hemp, the USA wasn't established by the stuff and the good old guys that wrote your beloved 2nd ammendment, were not smoking weed at the time. I am not suprised at the lack of interest from our republican friends in this conversation, it would be hard to imagine that the same people that made the constitution could have been partaing in the the evil narcotic that is cannabis. But I am only imagining this whole thing with my 'out there' theories aren't I. Funny (peculiar) that the first law in regards to Cannabis was that 'all farmers forced to grow it' by law or face strict penaties, the first US patent was a cannabis threshing machine, cannabis was legal tender for over a century and taxes could be paid with it......... "When the power of love overcomes the love of power, then the world will see peace." - 'Jimi' Hendrix Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
vortexring 0 #11 October 10, 2008 My piss take wasn't so much in regards to this post, more towards the lunacy of your beliefs regarding 9/11. FFS! And I'm not a Sceptic either. 'for it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "chuck 'im out, the brute!" But it's "saviour of 'is country" when the guns begin to shoot.' Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
headoverheels 334 #12 October 10, 2008 Gotta smoke that peace pipe. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rhys 0 #13 October 10, 2008 so you believe everything you are told huh! Just as well the bush administration is honest, reliable and competant. doing such wonders for the USA and the world. maybe he needs a good old reefer to ponder life."When the power of love overcomes the love of power, then the world will see peace." - 'Jimi' Hendrix Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
billvon 3,120 #14 October 10, 2008 >Just as well the bush administration is honest, reliable and competant. You say that as if to be sarcastic. But you have said in the past that you believe them capable of pulling off the biggest conspiracy the world has ever seen without a single error - AND they have been so incredibly good at rumor control that no one has admitted their part in it! They're just not that smart. No one is. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rhys 0 #15 October 10, 2008 Quote without a single error "When the power of love overcomes the love of power, then the world will see peace." - 'Jimi' Hendrix Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rhys 0 #16 October 10, 2008 Anyway how is this trolling stuff got anything to do with the forefather smoking herb?"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, then the world will see peace." - 'Jimi' Hendrix Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
downwardspiral 0 #17 October 10, 2008 Quote My piss take wasn't so much in regards to this post, more towards the lunacy of your beliefs regarding 9/11. FFS! And I'm not a Sceptic either. Actually this thread explains a lot about his beliefs regarding 9/11. And what's wrong with being a sceptic you fog horn?!www.FourWheelerHB.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
vortexring 0 #18 October 11, 2008 Fog horn!? First time I've came across that one. Explain to me plz! 'for it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "chuck 'im out, the brute!" But it's "saviour of 'is country" when the guns begin to shoot.' Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rhys 0 #19 October 11, 2008 Quote Actually this thread explains a lot about his beliefs regarding 9/11. Wink yeah? I presume you are making an assumtion about me? You know what assumtion is the mother of don't you."When the power of love overcomes the love of power, then the world will see peace." - 'Jimi' Hendrix Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
