Yes, they used it for something sensible called "rope." They certainly knew better than to smoke it.
George Washington even wrote about his growing marijuana....& after reading the words that he used when describing what he did, it is easy to believe that he smoked it & enjoyed the buzz just like we do today.
I'm sure that it is. I have talked to Libertarians long enough to realize that they think everything is connected to pot. They are like homosexuals arguing that every famous person in history was "gay." They simply project what they want to believe on to famous historical figures.
our nation's 1st federal drug laws were written back on the early 20th Century.
They came from the PROGRESSIVE Movement, from the same people that gave us alcohol Prohibition
I think clean food and properly labeled drugs are one of the good things to come from that era.
"I think clean food and properly labeled drugs are one of the good things to come from that era."
Regardless or whether laws of that type are good & useful or not, aren't those topics something that Constitution reserves to the STATES? Where does the Constitution give the Feds the authority to write such laws? That same Progressive Era also had the Feds grab millions of acres of State land for parks, forests, seashores, etc...even after promising the States that they wouldn't do such a thing after they joined the Union. Washington, DC can NOT be trusted in anything they do.
He's right - the law against which the Whiskey Rebellion was an excise tax not a "drug law" in any rational sense of the term.