From: ucanlearn@any.edu   
      
   On Sun, 03 Aug 2003 16:41:40 -0500, Gerald Clough    
   posted this (may be clipped):   
      
   >Bass Guitar God wrote:   
   >> Did they smoke marijuana in the old west? Thanks. I know they drank beer,   
   but I   
   >> never heard nothing about pot.   
   >   
   >You don't hear much of it, and there would have been no reason to avoid   
   >the issue. Hashish smoking was legit enough to feature in such events as   
   >  public international expositions, and hashish was discussed as   
   >something the temperance ladies might want to recommend as a substitute   
   >for liquor that, hopefully, wouldn't result in the wife beating   
   >associated with drunks.   
   >   
   >Cannibis extracts were used in many, many of the patent medicines in   
   >those days and was a reconized treatment for a wide range of maladies.   
   >(Often in massive doses. Even the mainstream drug makers had no idea of   
   >the active chemical and were unable give it any kind of reliable   
   >shelf-life.) It was never a major item in western folk medicine. I   
   >suspect that the plant, picked wild, just wasn't smoked much. It   
   >certainly wouldn't have been anything like as potent as cultivated and   
   >sexed 20th century marijuana.   
   >   
   >If one wanted a high, other than alcohol, a number of opiates were   
   >readily available over-the-counter. And opiate adiction was a problem   
   >(large or small depends on who you believe) after the Civil War where   
   >they were relatively new discoveries and freely used in military medicine.   
      
   Hi folks!   
      
   I'm new to the newsgroup, retrieved all the available headers, and   
   came to this topic (only a few messages remain in under the header).   
      
   I know this is an old thread but I'd like to know if people used slang   
   terms for marijuana back then?   
      
   Forgive me if that question has been asked already but I'm curous.   
   Anyway, I hope someone knows. From what Gerald had already posted   
   above it might be pot wasn't used or as popular (?) as it is today.   
      
   I'll be lurking here for a while.  Take care.   
      
   Gus T   
      
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