My sentiments exactly...

[kameelyun]

Originally Posted by Maturin

However, he probably wasn't telling people to grow cannabis to smoke up. Hemp was used to make rope, and since ships were the easiest way to get from A to B, and since ships required literally TONS of rope, that was the likely reason behind his advice.

Please learn some basic history, man.

Maybe patriot is mistaken about a law being passed that required everyone to grow hemp, but his basic premise* still stands. Patriot has never implied that Washington was a pothead and encouraged everyone to grow cannabis to smoke up. The point is that hemp is a very strong industrial crop, and early in the 20th century American lawmakers whose corporate interests were vested in other industries made sure the hemp industry was outlawed.

*the premise of how ironic it is that the Founding Fathers would, by today's laws, be felons and drug kingpins for growing even non-smokable hemp.

[patriot]

I thought I read that somewhere once. Regardless, all the initial drafts of the U.S. Constitution were written on hemp paper. There were a great multitude of products made from hemp. George Washington was a hemp farmer.

[stoneric]

Originally Posted by Maturin

I don't disagree with patriot's basic message, but if he's going to win people over to his point of view he has to have his facts straight. Otherwise the pro-grow crowd will look all the more foolish in the eyes of skeptics.

I think you do disagree with Patriot's basic message. You're one of those skeptics you speak of.

[Maturin]

Whilst you're just skeptical of anything I say.

[Prophet Saddam]

Originally Posted by Maturin

That pretty impressive since:

A) George Washington was NEVER governor of Virginia.

B) In 1792, George Washington was finishing up his first term as President.

C) George Washington never signed any bill requiring people to grow hemp.

George Washington DID write a letter to someone once, wherein it said, "Make the most of the hemp seed and sow it everywhere." (And both he and Thomas Jefferson grew it on their plantations). However, he probably wasn't telling people to grow cannabis to smoke up. Hemp was used to make rope, and since ships were the easiest way to get from A to B, and since ships required literally TONS of rope, that was the likely reason behind his advice.

Please learn some basic history, man.

You're playing 'gotcha' over some rather irrelevant 'facts.'

[stoneric]

Originally Posted by Maturin

Whilst you're just skeptical of anything I say.

So if I agree with you, I prove you wrong.