Some presidents minimize their drug use like old William Clinton.
#CRAZYTALK 8 GEORGE WASHINGTOM FREE#
You know, it’s a funny thing, every one of the bastards that are out for legalizing marijuana is Jewish.” Remember, this guy was the leader of the free world. The Nixon Tapes are replete with Nixon’s mix of irrational hatred of marijuana and non-white races and ethnicities, with quotes like, “I want a Goddamn strong statement on marijuana, I mean one that just tears the ass out of them. Tricky Dick is the one who brought us this War on Drugs in the first place. Are we sure he never toked? Richard Nixon was even crazier when it came to the ganja.
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Not that he would have used it though, since Reagan told us, “I now have absolute proof that smoking even one marijuana cigarette is equal in brain damage to being on Bikini Island during an H-bomb blast.” That’s some pretty crazy talk for a guy that doesn’t puff the loco weed. Ronald Reagan was not a presidential stoner, and given that he died from Alzheimer’s disease, it is a shame the Gipper wasn’t able to embrace the cannabis medicine that could have protected his brain. Many Presidents were very adamant about their opinions on the subject. Pot smoking is not likely to be something the late 19th and early 20th century presidents wanted recorded for posterity, if they did it at all.
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But by the turn of the 20th century the temperance movement was in full swing and states were beginning to prohibit cannabis. Cannabis was becoming a patent medicine, so perhaps some presidents used it in that fashion. Post-Civil War America heralded the development of pre-rolled tobacco cigarettes and prejudice against the Mexican immigrants who smoked “marihuana”. As we have learned, Pre-Civil War America was a land of hemp farmers and slaves who could commonly roll up some hemp leaf as a smoke.
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I’m sure we have all heard about Washington and the hemp filled tales that go along with him, but were there others that got beamed up to Scotty by the wacky tobacky? From President Andrew Jackson to President Dwight Eisenhower, there is almost nothing in the way of historical record of presidents smoking pot. You’ll never be President of the United States.” We have all haerd that in one sense or another. “Use drugs and they will ruin your life and you’ll never amount to anything.