even Winston Churchill chewed tobacco

[Ansel]

:-)

read here: http://www.winston-churchill-leaders...ill-cigar.html

[Crow]

... and George Washington smoked the mariana!

Washington and his fellow planter/presidents Tom Jefferson and James Madison would be astonished to hear that hemp is illegal. These early chief executives would certainly have told President Obama that a re-legalized cannabis crop would mean billions of dollars in desperately needed farm revenue throughout the United States.

As for smoking, I know of no significant communication among the Founders extolling their “great weed.”

But in one of his meticulous agricultural journals, dated 1765, Washington regrets being late to separate his male hemp plants from his females. For a master farmer like George, there would be little reason to do this except to make the females ripe for smoking.

The medicinal uses of cannabis were known to the ancient Chinese. Thousands of years later, it’s inconceivable American growers would not indulge in its recreational powers.

No one knows for certain if he smoked the mariana, but that agricultural diary entry makes you wonder...

“Began to separate the Male from the Female hemp … rather too late.”

That and this...

"Make the most you can of the Indian Hemp seed and sow it everywhere."

That sounds like me when I'm high..!