Video: Twelve Cannabis Smoking US Presidents

Lets pause this POTUS election and look back on twelve known cannabis smoking US Presidents. Check out this 5 minute YouTube video for some great cannabis quotes, facts and trivia on some of our Presidents and Founding Fathers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jym5qWCL89w

Twelve Cannabis Smoking US Presidents

1. George Washington [beginning]
2. Thomas Jefferson [0:15 mark]
3. James Madison [0:23 mark]
4. James Monroe [0:31 mark]
5. Andrew Jackson [0:37 mark]
6. Zachary Taylor [0:41 mark]
7. Franklin Pierce [0:45 mark]
8. Abraham Lincoln 0:51 mark]
9. John F. Kennedy [1:00 mark]
10. Bill Clinton [1:05 mark]
11. George W. Bush [1:13 mark]
12. Barack Obama (and The Choom Gang) [1:20 mark]

Other Highlights from The History Channel Segment of Video:

• “I think the founding fathers must have been stoned and plastered during that whole period.” Dives into Colonial America’s love of hemp. [1:27 mark]
• The Declaration of Independence was drafted on hemp. The United States Constitution was written on hemp as well as most early founding documents for all the states. [1:53 mark]
• Our first flag and the clothes colonials wore were made of hemp. Wearing homespun hemp clothes was a badge of Colonial honor against the British [2:13 mark]
• Great blurb on Thomas Jefferson and George Washington’s use of and passion for hemp. Jefferson invented a new method for breaking down hemp fibers. [2:43 mark]
• “Hemp was the single most useful crop in Colonial America. Sail, ropes, flags, banners, uniforms, logbooks, all that was made out of hemp. It took 80 tons of hemp to outfit one sailing ship.” [3:30 mark]
• Cannabis was smoked regularly by the founding fathers. [4:00 mark]
• Tobacco was 2-3x profitable for colonial farmers to grow and sell to England. Tobacco and hemp, drugs, started our country. [4:30 mark]