Well as I said elsewhere, we know they grew it, harvested it, dried it, sold it, sometimes separated the plants by sex (and the plant's strengthing requirements haven't changed since 1790), sold it, and generally had it around. We also know they did the same exact thing with tobacco, but smoked the tobacco instead of turning the bulk of it into rope. And finally, we know that weed had been smoked to get high for thousands of years, and so it's likely they knew it had that capability.
So there's a little bit more balancing out this equation of potential smoking than you're admitting, But hey, if given all of that, you still believe they didn't smoke it - these men who smoked tobacco every day and drank alcohol far more than people do today - then Bless Your Heart.
Smoke Tobacco, Manufacture Rope. Quite a distinction from my perspective. That they smoked Marijuana is just Libertarian Conjecture, with no real proof to support it.
Just as the Gays find that every important man in history was homosexual, so too do the Libertarians try to pin their drug indulgences on any great men for whom it could possibly be argued, might have used drugs.
If the founding fathers were doing it, then everyone was doing it.
And just as people of the time talked about booze and beer and wine, and partying and so on, they would have talked about the pot and hash they were using, just like all pot heads do, except that back then there was no law against it.
Why wouldn’t everyone be using the free drug, that anyone could grow, anywhere?
Cannabis as an intoxicant never penetrated into the white world, during those thousands of years you mentioned, and when it came up, like during the Crusades, it was looked down on as something to avoid.
If pot use was open, common, and legal, then why did it quit being used by Americans? How is it that you can’t prove your pathetic accusations against our nation’s early generations?
Why is the lie so important to you?