It's estimated that 1 of every 4 US presidents have consumed cannabis

rubenanez (30)in #life • 6 years ago

From the first president of the United States, George Washington, to one of the most recent, Barack Obama, at least twelve of them probably had some connection with marijuana, whether for economic, medical reasons or simply for the pleasure of consuming it.

United States of America is a country where 35% of the habitants younger than 45 years old claim to have tried marijuana at least once in their lives, and more than a quarter of their presidents elected throughout history, twelve of forty-four, have consumed ganja.
Also, another fundamental figures of the economic and political history of the United States like Henry Ford and Benjamin Franklin join this list.
In chronological order these are the presidents who have acknowledged openly cannabis use: George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, Andrew Jackson, Zachary Taylor, Franklin Pierce, Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.
Some famous phrases of these presidents about cannabis:
George Washington
"Get the most out of Indian hemp and plant it everywhere."
John Adams
"We will want a world of cannabis for our own consumption."
Thomas Jefferson
"The greatest service that can be done to a country is to add a useful plant to its culture."
Bill Clinton
"When I was 22 years old and I was in England, I did what everyone else did and smoked marijuana on at least a couple of occasions."
Barack Obama
"I did retain the smoke. In fact, that's what the whole experience was about. "

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