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DinahMoeHum

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1. Gingrish is a historian? What a laugh-and-a-half.

Reply to Amerigo Vespucci (Original post)

Wed Jan 4, 2012, 09:15 PM

Jan 2012

Hemp was probably the 2nd biggest cash crop in the former colonies, next to tobacco. And it was, and still is, a multi-purpose plant, to boot. (food, textiles, rope, etc.)

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NO, Newt...the "founding fathers" were probably rolling spliffs and livelying up themselves. [View all] Amerigo Vespucci Jan 2012 OP

Gingrish is a historian? What a laugh-and-a-half. DinahMoeHum Jan 2012 #1

george washington smoked weed limpyhobbler Jan 2012 #2

"Don't grow marijuana. Buy ours instead." ? nt Electric Monk Jan 2012 #3

To say nothing about- pangaia Jan 2012 #4

Hey Newt Can you explain the violence in these? hootinholler Jan 2012 #5

NEWT has ADMITTED he smoked marijuana himself! downwardly_mobile Jan 2012 #6

Decriminalization didn't increase week use in next door Massachusetts. nt bluestate10 Jan 2012 #7