... they were dabbling in opium and cocaine. Scientists also have evidence of cannabis from pipes found in William Shakespeare's garden. Britain's King James I, who commissioned the version of the good book that we are all familiar with, ordered that hemp be grown by colonists in his namesake settlement of Jamestown. The Declaration of Independence was written on a hemp parchment. In my ... rise and drug prevention in schools is a joke. The only thing I can keep saying is that common sense has flown out of the window, only to be replaced by law-maker's political agendas. It seems we as Amer...

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