The United States Of Stoned Presidents

If you've spent most of your life seeing only the classic black & white portrait of Abraham Lincoln, this coloured one from the WhiteHouseMuseum is startling :



Abraham Lincoln :

"Two of my favorite things are sitting on my front porch smoking a pipe of sweet hemp, and playing my Hohner harmonica."

You don't say....



Some other American presidents on cannabis....

Barack Obama :

"I inhaled frequently. That was the point."

John Adams :

"We shall by and by want a world of hemp more for our own consumption."

Thomas Jefferson :

"(Cannabis) is of first necessity to the wealth and protection of the country."

Jimmy Carter :

"Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself. Where they are, they should be changed. Nowhere is this more clear than in the laws against possession of (cannabis) in private for personal use..."

George Washington :

"Make the most you can of the Indian Hemp seed and sow it everywhere."

Ronald Reagan :

"I have absolute proof that smoking even one marijuana cigarette is equal in brain damage to being on Bikini Island during an H-bomb blast."