The Straight Dope

The Straight DopeWhirled HistoryTake a Trip Back to the Stoned AgeGeorge Washington Smoked Marijuana.Word on the Street: Legalization advocates insist that when our first president wasn't fathering a nation, he was cultivating huge crops of hemp on his Virginia plantation. In a 1794 note to his gardener, Washington instructed, "Make the most of the Indian hemp seed, and sow it everywhere." While the plants were commonly used to make rope and paper (including the first draft of the Decl...