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

[kenny blankenship]

150. His letters and diaries prove that he grew it. Good grief!

Are you really that ignorant of US history?

May 12-13 1765: "Sowed Hemp at Muddy hole by Swamp. Sowed ditto above the Meadow at Doeg Run"
August 7, 1765: "--began to separate (sic) the Male from
the Female Hemp at Do--rather too late."

The second entry suggests Washington was aware of hemp's "medicinal" properties. Separating the female plants before pollination results in "sinsemilla" which has a stronger concentration of the effective medicinal ingredients. It has no advantage or bearing on hemp as used for fiber for cordage or clothing and certainly no relevance to the use of hemp as a nitrogen fixing crop.

Whether Washington ever smoked pot for any reason or never smoked it for any reason, as a cultured person and business minded farmer he could hardly have been ignorant of its historical uses which have included smoking for thousands of years. Selling marijuana was part of the business that made Washington the richest farmer in the colonies. Calls for its prohibition would have doubtlessly have inspired him to the kind of agitation and mischief that Samuel Adams got up to when the British Parliament crammed surplus East India Company tea into the colonies, cutting out established colonial middlemen.

It's a G thing: marijuana prohibition would have hit G right in his cash box. And he didn't get to be number one without knowing how to hit back.