Don’t be shocked by this little-known fact from American history: Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Roger Sherman, and Robert Livingston comprised the committee appointed by the Continental Congress to write our Declaration of Independence. They immediately sat down over a pile of cannabis. Well, actually, it was in the form of paper, since most paper of the time was made from cannabis hemp fiber. They finished the first draft of the Declaration on June 28, 1776, then the second on July 2, 1776. Because the final document was to be official, though, they printed it on parchment.
History does not report if they burned the two drafts–or if they inhaled…..
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