And how many children were using hemp as a recreation substance in order to get high in 1812???
Don’t know about the kids back then but you may want to check this out:
“Burke asserted that Washington & Jefferson were said to exchange smoking blends as personal gifts. Washington reportedly preferred a pipe full of “the leaves of hemp” to alcohol, & wrote in his diaries that he enjoyed the fragrance of hemp flowers. Madison once remarked that hemp gave him insight to create a new & democratic nation. Monroe, creator of the Monroe Doctrine, began smoking it as Ambassador to France & continued to the age of 73. Burke. “Pot & Presidents.” in Green Egg. CA. June 21, 1975”