Did George Washington grow marijuana?
VFW
Both Washington and Jefferson tried growing hemp on their Virginia
farms, with mixed success. Washington used some of what he grew to make
hemp clothing worn by his slaves. However, U.S. hemp exported to Britain
often was of such poor quality that it couldn't be sold, and Washington
was never able to turn a profit on the crop despite sustained effort.
Jefferson also seems to have grown hemp strictly for local consumption,
from which we deduce he couldn't make money at it either. In short, not
only were Washington and Jefferson marijuana farmers, they were
unsuccessful marijuana farmers.
someone asked Cecil this.
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2912/did-george-washington-and-t
homas-jefferson-grow-marijuana
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money; what a concept!
cop welfare
> homas-jefferson-grow-marijuana
> --
> money; what a concept!
you prolly already know that hemp is reputed to be not especially
effective as an intoxicant and even if it WERE...and our founding
fathers were unsuccessful hemp-farmers, i'm sure they wouldn't want
the non-voluntary help to be smoking their clothes in the quarters.
maybe that's why their hemp was considered such low-quality.
too much active ingredient =ed to0 much temptation.
Padraigh ProAmerica
statements that industrial hemp has virtually no delta-9
tetrahydrocanabinol (the stuff that nakes you feel good).
"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and let them
surprise you with their ingenuity."
Gen. George S. Patton
cop welfare
i think it's all a dodge.
these hemp farmers have glints in their eyes.
i think they want to plant the good stuff along with the other stuff
in a camouflage plot.
lorad
"Researchers from Complutense University and the Cajal Institute in
Madrid looked at the brains of people who died from Alzheimer's and
those of healthy people who died at about the same age, focusing on
cannabinoid receptor sites and microglia, which activate the brain's
immune response. The latter are known to accumulate near plaque
deposits caused by Alzheimer's, causing inflammation.
...
"These findings that cannabinoids work both to prevent inflammation
and to protect the brain may set the stage for their use as a
therapeutic approach for Alzheimer's disease," said researcher Maria
de Ceballos."
chingang
wrote:
>On Dec 16, 10:07�pm, cop welfare <cop.welf...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Dec 16, 11:44 pm, ogro...@webtv.net (Padraigh ProAmerica) wrote:
>>
>> > There are a couple of hemp stores around here; they make VERY public
>> > statements that industrial hemp has virtually no delta-9
>> > tetrahydrocanabinol (the stuff that nakes you feel good).
>>
>> > "Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and let them
>> > surprise you with their ingenuity."
>> > � � � � � � � � � � � � �Gen. George S. Patton
>>
>> i think it's all a dodge.
>> these hemp farmers have glints in their eyes.
>> i think they want to plant the good stuff along with the other stuff
>> in a camouflage plot.
>
>"Researchers from Complutense University and the Cajal Institute in
>Madrid looked at the brains of people who died from Alzheimer's and
>those of healthy people who died at about the same age, focusing on
>cannabinoid receptor sites and microglia, which activate the brain's
>immune response. The latter are known to accumulate near plaque
>deposits caused by Alzheimer's, causing inflammation.
Yeah, booze kills brain cells and hastens dimentia too. Not to mention
pickling your gizzard. I've smoked pot for over forty years, and
almost everyday this year until I took a little respite from it. You
would think a person would have urges but nope, its dope.
Alot of old raisins turn to pot to quit drinkin' and avoid the DT's
and by golly it works! Activates their brain from all that stinkin'
thinkin' that the rat race produces and they can sleep well without
chemical induction and makes them shit good likewise.
The booze lobby won't "allow" for the legalization of it because they
know the raisins will turn to it in a flash and their goes the profits
up in smoke!
VFW
<cc9f67e3-d583-42e7...@j24g2000yqa.googlegroups.com>,
cop welfare <cop.w...@gmail.com> wrote:
and I thought that item of ignorance died out with the quite common
knowledge that "good dope" is semsimilla (sP) and it requires a
complete absence of male plants to avoid fertilization.
as Cecil said;
Straight Dope has been fighting ignorance since 1978, It's taking longer
than they thought.
knews4...@yahoo.com
All farmers in the colonies and up to WW2 were required and/or
subsidized to keep part of their fields in hemp production for rope.
sails, and other war materials.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=colonial+hemp&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&oq=&aqi=
cop welfare
> In article
> <cc9f67e3-d583-42e7-ad3d-bdd298461...@j24g2000yqa.googlegroups.com>,
'and I thought that item of ignorance died out with the quite common
knowledge that "good dope" is semsimilla (sP) and it requires a
complete absence of male plants to avoid fertilization.
as Cecil said;
Straight Dope has been fighting ignorance since 1978, It's taking
longer
than they thought.'
i was only joking.
besides, i wouldn't want to give anybody ideas.
('lemme see, now...one of these, then one of those, then one of
these...')
sensemilla...
they never had that where i was.
they just used shoeboxes.
Dan
The use of the verb "think" above is obviously incorrect.
Dan
cop welfare
> i think it's all a dodge.
> these hemp farmers have glints in their eyes.
> i think they want to plant the good stuff along with the other stuff
> in a camouflage plot.
The use of the verb "think" above is obviously incorrect.
Dan
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heah, heah...
you have just one a new laptop from the Yale University Janitorial
Group.
by the wayyy..,
apropos of nada...
did you "knaow" that sensemilla is actually "sin semilla"?
(nothing to do with you...)
Dan
I.e., "without seeds."
Yep! In the American tradition, it gets spelled in any of the possible
ways it can to produce the correct sound.
Dan