Comment on Forensic Poetry

• myotheraccount@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It was, because tobacco was very expensive in europe (being a colonial good), and cannabis was widely available (as a byproduct of the fabric and rope industry). Once smoking became fashionable, people looked for ways to smoke even if they couldn’t afford tobacco. Cannabis was a popular replacement.

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  • Axiochus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Can we get a source?

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    • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      According to this article, we have no idea. It does not support OPs claim tho. (At least this article doesn’t)

      veriheal.com/…/how-our-founding-fathers-used-cann…

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      • FosterMolasses@leminal.space ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        TIL!

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    • myotheraccount@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I don’t have one unfortunately, I read about it at the hemp museum in Amsterdam

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  • NikkiDimes@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    We talking weed here or hemp?

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• GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  sure it was! it left all the pure Columbian cocaine for the Tudors.

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• Zerush@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_cannabis

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