[TKDietz]

"Dr. Burke, president of the American Historical Reference Society and a consultant for the Smithsonian Institute, counted seven early presidents as cannabis smokers: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, Andrew Jackson, Zachary Taylor and Franklin Pierce. 41 "Early letters from our founding fathers refer to the pleasures of hemp smoking," said Burke."

Some of the things you are saying are true and it may be that some of these people did use marijuana for its intoxicating effect, but there is no "American Historical Reference Society" and this Dr. Burke guy doesn't exist. This is a hoax. You'll find these bogus footnotes quoted all over the internet but you won't find the book this man supposedly wrote, because like its imaginary author, it doesn't exist. Look into it, you'll see what I'm talking about.

[robertpaulsen]

Thanks, TK. I predict he'll be a short-timer on the drug threads with cites like that.

Hey, do you have a link for current state-by-state teen marijuana use? I told ole MrLeRoy that I believed Alaskan teen use rates have dropped to about the level of teen use rates in the lower 48.