[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.

[tacticalogic]

No,it wasn't. There actually are other properties of this plant,such as it being a mild depressor of pain..

Since when are "pain depressor" and "psychoactive" exclusive terms? Most pain depressors are classified as psychoactive drugs.

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

Perhaps I will.

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

I'll leave you with your diaries and novels. They are obviously a much more objective and authoritative source of pharmacological information than the medical references of the day.