It was those Indians wasn't it!! LOL
2007-01-03 12:13:20 · 4 answers · asked by will M 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Etiquette
Actually I saw a program on the history of marijuana on the History channel. It was the Chinese who introduced weed for medicinal purposes. I believe it started moving West and eventually Napolean and his Army brought it back to France from Egypt (because it was easier to carry than alcohol, and had less side effects as well). It than made it into the port cities of US, where they "Claim" the crime and murder rate went up Due to that they had prohibition on marijuana in 1914.........damn them!
Indians actually smoke peyote which is a small cactus grown wild in the southwest.
2007-01-03 12:37:35 · answer #1 · answered by micmac_9 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Marijuana has been found buried with cavemen. It was probably used even before men started living in caves.
You can find a ton of historical research on cannabis at http://druglibrary.org/schaffer/History/history.htm See "Marijuana, the First 12,000 Years" for starters.
An even more interesting story is why it was outlawed in the first place. See http://druglibrary.org/schaffer/Library/mj_outlawed.htm
BTW, the History Channel special mentioned above was done out of my web site and I was featured on the show.
2007-01-05 05:33:06 · answer #2 · answered by Cliff Schaffer 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was always my understanding that the Native Americans started it... tobacco too.
2007-01-03 12:27:48 · answer #3 · answered by Holy Macaroni! 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wrong, it was Willie Nelson
2007-01-03 12:59:03 · answer #4 · answered by 10 to 20 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋