[tacticalogic]

That's what it says in Queen Victoria's diary..."a very weak tea of..........."

I don't know if I'd be willing to accept that as an accurate characterization of the dosage. The uses for the drug listed in the pharmacopia indicate that it was being prescribed for it's psychoactive properties. It seems implausible that it would be prescribed for those properties in dosages at which the effects would be undetectable.

[nopardons]

No,it wasn't. There actually are other properties of this plant,such as it being a mild depressor of pain....i.e. the reason it was mixed with butter or oils,for a poultice to be used on burns.And then there are the other suggested uses, from Cullpepper,which are patently ridiculous.Taking some sort of concoction,which included pot,for gout,is laughable,as is the oil from the seeds for displacing earwigs from ears!

And American colonists,down through and including the FFs didn't use this plant for much other than making rope! You people assume that they used it for medicinal purposes ,but in Martha Ballard's extremely detailed diary I she was a midwife,but also treated all people for a myriad of disease,in from 1785-1812!) there is no,none,nada,zilch,zero,bupkiss mention of hemp;yet she names every herb/substance that she used,how she used these things,when and for what and whom she treated!

You really should read "A MIDWIFE'S TALE" ;it's very interesting. :-)

You so desperately want to believe the garbage you post,that the facts are irrelevant to you and your ilk.