My hero, you say, smoked pot? Him and Thomas Jefferson, both?
"Make the most you can of the Indian Hemp seed and sow it everywhere."
- George Washington
"Hemp is of first necessity to the wealth & protection of the country."
- Thomas Jefferson
I was running scared and hurt when I heard George smoked pot. But, a check of a few websites revealed he and Thomas Jefferson might not have been pot smokers, afterall, but rather just a farmers who raised hemp for its other uses: making paper, making rope, etc.
Here's one of the links:
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2912/did-george-washington-and-thomas-jefferson-grow-marijuana
I also found out the above quote from George is not altogether accurate, being a shortened version of the words he actually said.
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