Obama has become more hostile to medical marijuana patients than any president in U.S. history

[RainDog]

146. actually, hemp was one of the major crops in the U.S. for more of our history than not

People had to grow hemp (marijuana that is grown for industrial uses rather than THC content.)

Even after Anslinger made it illegal, FDR and the fed. govt pushed for states to grow hemp for industrial uses during WWII.

However, Washington did write about making sure to separate out the male from female hemp plants on Mt. Vernon. The only reason to do this is to increase the psychotropic properties of the female plants. For this reason, some people make the claim that Washington smoked cannabis.

The propaganda against marijuana has only been around for the last 70 years.

Before that, cannabis was a part of every doctor's medical bag, beginning in the 1800s, for many of the same reasons it is prescribed today.

Queen Victoria used it - so, why is it so impossible to think that Washington would have? Ben Franklin was experimenting with laughing gas over in England, along with the others who were behind the scientific and industrial revolution that was beginning at that time.

What's stupid is to think that, historically, people had the same attitude as people do now about this issue - the current views are the result of propaganda.