Nobody can document a human death due to DDT ingestion.
Please provide documentation for your assertion that Thomas Jefferson or George Washington used marijuana recreationally. That is totally new to me.
There can be no doubt that Washington separated the males and the females. Two entries in his diary supply the evidence:
May 12-13 1765: "Sowed Hemp at Muddy hole by Swamp."
August 7, 1765: "--began to seperate (sic) the Male from
the Female Hemp at Do--rather too late."
George Andrews has argued, in _The Book of Grass: An Anthology of Indian Hemp_ (1967), that Washington's August 7 diary entry "clearly indiactes that he was cultivating the plant for medicinal purposes as well for its fiber."
his phrase "rather too late" suggests that he wanted to complete the separation *before the female plants were
fertilized*--and this was a practice related to drug potency
rather that to fiber culture.
It is obvious to this Editor that the Reason for George Washington's Separating male from female Hemp plant WAS INDEED for the Purpose of increased Potency...and Ingestabilty. A Hemp plant normally produces many seeds...because the pollen is air borne...it made growing Sinsemillia (without seed )Much easier to accomplish!!! it is much more Potent and easier to smoke
Here is the link: http://www.iahushua.com/T-L-J/GeoHemp.html
"What was done with the seed saved from the India Hemp last summer? It ought, all of it, to have been sewn again; that not only a stock of seed sufficient for my own purposes might have been raised, but to have disseminated the seed to others; as it is more valuable than the common Hemp."
George Washington
Writings of Washington, Vol. 35, pg. 72
http://www.hempfiles.com/php/quote.php?id=84
"Make the most of the Indian hemp seed, and sow it everywhere!"
Note to the gardener at Mount Vernon, 1794 "The Writings of George Washington" Volume 33, page 270 (Library of Congress)
(George Washington, first president of the United States of America, grew cannabis on Mount Vernon, his plantation, for about 30 years).
http://www.taima.org/en/quotes.htm#washington
"I thank you as well for the Seeds as for the Pamphlets which you had the goodness to send me. The artificial preparation of Hemp, from Silesia, is really a curiosity; and I shall think myself much favored in the continuance of your corrispondence. ..."- The writings of George Washington Vol 33 To DOCTOR JAMES ANDERSON