Back it up. I agree that they used tinctures (a tincture is made with alcohol) and teas. You commented on the potency and claim that was the only way they used cannabis.
Cite a reference...or can you only post propaganda and insults?
Let's being with "Culpepper's Colour Herbal", shall we, since it's about 400 years old and has been used by herbalists as their "bible"/major reference work since its publican. The seeds of the hemp plant expel wind.(sorry,it doesn't say exactly how one is to use the seeds,but they certainly weren't to be smoke!) A few seeds boiled in milk were used for a cough.The oil from the seeds,dropped in the ear,will draw forth earwigs.( SINCE EARWIGS DO NOT GO DXOWN INTO PEOPLE'S EARS,THIS IS AS SILLY AS SOME OF THE REST OF THE STATED USES FOR ANY PART OF THE HEMP/POT PLANT!LOL)
An emulsion,made form seeds was advised for jaundice;especially if there be ague accompanying it.A decoction of the root was for the allaying of inflammations of the head.The herb distilled in clear water does the same.
The fresh root mixed with oil or butter is good for burn. Butter MAY BE GOOD FOR BURNS,THE PLANT DOESN'T REALLY DO ANYTHING TO HEAL THEM,THOUGH IT IS SUPPOSEDLY A MILD ANALGESIC!
Then there's "THE GREAT AMERICAN MEDICAL SHOW" by David Armstrong and Elizabeth Metzger Armstrong ,which quotes from 1)John Tennent's 1743 " EVERY MAN HIS OWN PHYSICIAN","THE REFORMED BOTANIC AND INDIAN PHYSICIAN" by Doctor David Smith (early 19th century),and the editors of the 1919 edition of "HEALTH KNOWLEDGE",which was a self help book.
I'd also include what I know about patent medicines and the use of hemp in England in early Victorian times (and titles for a few more books),but it's really more of the same hard,cold,facts,unlike your wee rants,ad hominems,baitings,obfuscations,and propaganda,so you probably won't like to hear about them either.
Oh,and BTW........ all tinctures are NOT made with alcohol,though some were/are.Precise FACTS really DO matter! :-)