To: nickcarraway
the marijuana plant /hemp plant often was used in herbal medicine, so that wouldn’t prove anything.
And equating the drug culture in the US, i.e. taking drugs for pleasure to get high, was not the same as using a herbal medicine.
I suspect Shakespeare used beer and wine to get drunk...
12 posted on
07/09/2011 2:31:43 PM PDT by
LadyDoc
(liberals only love politically correct poor people)
To: LadyDoc
OLIVIA:What's a drunken man like, fool? CLOWN: Like a drowned man, a fool, and a madman: one draught above heat makes him a fool, the second mads him, and a third drowns him.
TN1.5.127-30
15 posted on
07/09/2011 2:37:12 PM PDT by
nickcarraway
(All the Squares go home)
To: LadyDoc
They didn’t have much wine as we know it in Eng then. It was mostly ale and cider.
32 posted on
07/09/2011 4:23:14 PM PDT by
kabumpo
(Kabumpo)
To: LadyDoc
It is a known fact that Thomas Jefferson occassionally filled his pipe with hemp.
39 posted on
07/10/2011 3:32:46 PM PDT by
JEC
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