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To: Brian Sullivan who wrote (83791)	9/12/2008 1:34:13 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 542909

I like the Founders better...I'd love to smoke a joint with George and Tom... Make the most of the Indian hemp seed, and sow it everywhere! George Washington in a note to his gardener at Mount Vernon (1794), The Writings of George Washington, Volume 33, page 270 (Library of Congress) Washington also recorded his concern that the male and female plants be seperated: 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. Some assert his interest in separating the male and female plants is an indication that he may have used Indian hemp medicinally to treat his chronic tooth aches. en.wikiquote.org * It was LEGAL TO PAY TAXES WITH HEMP in America from 1631 until the early 1800s; LA Times, Aug. 12, 1981. * REFUSING TO GROW HEMP in America during the 17th and 18th Centuries WAS AGAINST THE LAW! You could be jailed in Virginia for refusing to grow hemp from 1763 to 1769; Hemp in Colonial Virginia, G. M. Herdon. * George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and other founding fathers GREW HEMP; Washington and Jefferson Diaries. Jefferson smuggled hemp seeds from China to France then to America. illuminati-news.com