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To: Boogieman

The ostensible point of your comment is irrational and non-sequitar, but that’s to be expected.

As for your comment about the founding fathers and pot.

Back in the day me and my pothead buddies fully believed that. They all grew hemp. I remember one stoner buddy saying how Washington wrote in his journal how he much prefers a bowl of hemp over a bowl of tobacco in the evening.

The founders were said to separate the male plants from the female plants which is not necessary for rope-making purposes. The only purpose is to produce sinsemilla (seedless) which makes a better smoking getting-high weed.

Yes, those were the things pot heads believed and were told by the hippie leftists.

The pot head propaganda is still going strong thirty years on.

Actually it’s about 50 years on, now. It was thirty years ago I came across it.

It’s worked. Obama is a direct consequence of this hippie leftist propaganda that the libertarians, among others, carry on today.


14 posted on 09/16/2014 10:39:12 AM PDT by ifinnegan
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To: ifinnegan

“The ostensible point of your comment is irrational and non-sequitar, but that’s to be expected.”

If it was irrational and non sequiter, you could demonstrate that, instead of going off reminiscing about stupid things you believed as a youth. As it stands, you’ve just made an unsubstantiated statement that doesn’t equate to a rebuttal.


18 posted on 09/16/2014 10:45:28 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: ifinnegan

I’ve always wondered about that. ‘In his diary for August 7, 1765, Washington writes, “Began to separate the Male from the Female hemp … rather too late.” Female marijuana plants are the ones that contain enough THC to be worth smoking. Some take this to mean Washington was cultivating the plant not just for fiber. Of course, two days later Washington says he put the hemp in the river to soak and separate out the fibers, and later in September that he started to harvest the seed. That suggests he divided the plants because the males made stronger fiber while the female plants produced the seed needed for the next year’s crop. Jefferson in his Farm Book wrote that a female plant would produce a quart of seed, and a bushel of seed was enough to plant an acre.’ - http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2912/did-george-washington-and-thomas-jefferson-grow-marijuana


22 posted on 09/16/2014 10:49:00 AM PDT by ConservingFreedom (A goverrnment strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them.)
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