"Two of my favorite things are sitting on my front porch smoking a pipe of sweet hemp, and playing my Hohner harmonica." -- Abraham Lincoln;
"Prohibition... goes beyond the bound of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded" -Abraham Lincoln
It was legal then. But thanks for the non sequitur.
Here's another of your heroes on the left regarding the issue.
"We need to rethink and decriminalize our nation's marijuana laws." -Barack Obama, January 2004
Fake quote. Leftists love 'em.
"The contention that Mr. Lincoln ever said what is attributed to him in the paragraph numbered (1) is absolutely without justification. The statement never came to light until a local option election in Atlanta, Ga., long after the war, when it was used to influence the Negro vote. Various liquor men of prominence, including Mr. Tom Gilmore of the National Model License League, have admitted that there is no record of Mr. Lincoln's having made this statement, and Nicolay and Hay, his great biographers, have pronounced it spurious."The Pocket Cyclopedia of Temperance, by Clarence True Wilson, Elbert Deets Pickett - Page 225 (1916)