Four drunk guys will start a fight. Four stoned guys will start a band 😊

Love how weed had to be labeled as poisonous but alcohol an actual poison was drank like water.

Cannabis Cowboys sounds like a really great punk rock band.

I can confirm that Old Mexican weed does indeed increase energy and vigor. I'm 50 and still work like Im 18 after a good bowl of some Oaxaca bud

My Great Grandpa Hart had a 2000 acre ranch and he was also the sheriff of his County. He spoke fluent Spanish and would always go around to the Spanish-speaking houses and come back smiling and smelling like peppers.

Alcohol has caused me nothing but trouble. A couple of years ago I decided to try pot, and now I can’t figure out why I ever drank in the first place 😅

I enjoyed this, as a kid in the early 1970's in Southern Oregon, living in what people would call the sticks, not very populated. The hippies from CA would come up and plant mj on my elderly neighbors property. To shorten the story the narcs as law enforcement was called then came out pulled the plants up and leave their business card, yes the cops left their business card. They then went to the other end of the property to the house of the elderly couple and asked my 78 year old neighbor and her 96 year old husband if they knew what these plants were. My elderly neighbor could hardly contain herself as she related the conversation. She said she just played dumb saying , "well no sir I sure don't." Then she laughed and told us she knew exactly what it was, " back home in Missouri (where she was born) we called that loco weed". We all had a good laugh. Note: Also in the 1970's Josephine County,OR made the cover of Time Magazine as the pot growing capital of the US! It was not something to be proud of. We did also have the best County Fair in the state of Oregon at the time.

Turns into a Pancho Villa documentary.

It is a God-given medicine that helps lots of people and animals. 😊

If they can't tax it, they ban it.

If I’m not mistaken, they found cannabis in clay jars, sealed with wax, dated to over 6000 years old. In caves high in the mountains inhabited by the ancient Daoist masters.

This video explains why billy the kidd looks stoned lol.

My family started the colonial American cannabis industry in the 1600s. We are swiss, we were asked to bring looms an help establish the industry for sails an clothing an medicine and more. We established in in Pennsylvania an held ownership of almost 4/5ths on the state. We still have our town in Pennsylvania

I am 64 and smoked it like crazy as a teenager starting at like age of 14 or younger and was raised on a farm in East Tennessee still live on part of that farm 3 1/2 acres left at one time it was 104 acres my dad smoked it one time as well. He told me with a trusted friend and he also said it would come up here and there and in fence rows here and there- Then there was the time the guy that helped milk Our grade a Holstein cows Son grew some in the silage corn !!

That cover photo was a photo of Pancho Villa smoking pot along with one of his buddies; allegedly a guy named Ornelas.

My dad first smoked weed in 1940. Some Mexicans turned him on to it when he was leaning how to drive tanks in Texas

Im smoking weed being a cowboy right now

When I was a kid we would get that Columbian gold😮😊❤

There was a time in the late 60's when you could go to the Bay Area and there would be very nice homes in the Sausalito and other upscale areas that each specialized in a distinct Mexican Strain. One house would have bales of Oaxacan, another would have Michoacán, or Sinaloan, Acapulco Gold ect,. Trying samples of these ,going house to house ,was quite an experience. I remember a place in the city called 'Just Desserts' that seemed to draw us in like flies to poop!

My great grandfather was born in 1895 he use to tell me some really good stories about his youth, he said once when he and some friends traveled down into Mexico he said they smoked what he called those left handed cigarettes, too funny. He had and older brother in the Spanish American war and he fought in WWII, he died when I was 16 years old, he was an interesting ole fella, so glad I was able to know him.

Leaves of three, let 'em be...leaves of five, let 'em thrive!

The Natives cultivated Hemp way before the 1600's and were some of the most important Stewards of the Cannabis plant.✌

Im not aure how you can mention marijuana being prohibited federally and not mention William Randolph Hearst but solid video nonetheless

Marijuana has been used in the Americas since 26 BC with the Mayans, the copper skin natives

Pancho Villa hated beer he believed it made people stupid, Pancho Villa actually had a sweet tooth for strawberry or chocolate milkshakes

Mr. Washington loved sitting on his porch with a fresh pipe of sinsemilla

Hemp was what sails and ropes where made of, which made it essential to the colonial era. Like a kind of oil equivalent. No hemp, no ships, no colonies. Most hemp came from Russia, as it was a very labour-intensive crop. During the Napoleonic times, the British blocked hemp shipments from Russia to France, which is why Napoleon invaded Russia. The French also tried to force the colonists in the new world to grow hemp, but it was too much work, so they generally didn't. But down in the southern colonies, where slave labor was legal, hemp production thrived and became one of the main cash crops, as well as raw material for domestic rope and sail production. Again, it was like the oil of its day.

My grampa's grampa, my great great, grew hemp. Granny, grew some really good smoking weed. In her herb garden. She also grew Opium Poppies along with a host of other medicinal herbs like Echinacea. It was legal then. Grand Dad said she grew her stuff in hills of dirt that she mixed with manure and compost(Chicken, Goat, Cow and Pig) and cut down any males. She spaced them about 3 feet apart. Her hubby grew the same strain only planted very thickly like wheat so it wouldn't branch and produce long fibers good for, rope and cloth. Grand Dad said they would smoke it out in the barn and granny always had a couple of pies ready for them. He said it was good stuff. She was born in the 1840's and lived into the late 1930's. I think she died a year or 2 before it was made illegal in 1937.

So, the Marlboro man was smoking wacky toebacky!? 🤪

Hate to break it to ya, we were smoking weed long before the round eyes got here 😂

My great grandmother was born in the 30s. She called it wacky tobaccy or wacky weed. She would partake lol

"He was raised on loco weed. He's what you call a swing half-breed..." - Cow Cow Boogie

Very well done. I often listen to these, but I'm glad I actually watched this one because the images were fantastic, particularly the old medicine bottles. Thank you for a very informative and entertaining seventeen minutes.

I miss smoking weed! 😣 Friggin random drug tests!🙇🏻‍♂️

This video makes me feel like I'm in some reality where I'm in a darkened classroom and we're watching something educational but it's this and everyone is captivated

I had Cancer and smoke weed it may be slowed it down because I am still here I lost a crown jewel but like I said I am still here 😉

Hemp for ropes and fibre and hemp for getting high are very different strains

Currently, where I live, cannabis "dispensaries" are easier to find than a Starbucks.

You see in all the ol' westerns a cowboy twistin' one up !

Smoke weed EVERYDAY. We'ed be driving weed wearing weed building weed. We'ed have a different world rn if weed was a thing. Super strong deactivate materials that could go back to the field grown again to make more stuff. Weed phones weed bricks weed jeans weed batteries weed fuels and everything humans need and use.

The people are enjoying this plant? Well, we can't have that, can we! 😭 🇦🇺

These laws came about as a result of Congressman William Hearst, DuPont etc, it was taking away profits from them, so call small farmers were living well because they produced merchandise faster, paper, cloth etc, trees take 10-20 years for maturity, Cannabis is 6 months and up.

Currently I am stoned off my ass and I thoroughly enjoyed learning this amount of history about cannabis in the Americas. Had no clue that Pancho Villa was so integral to making cannabis a common part of many of our lives. What makes this special is that I learned a little bit more about my culture today. Arriba!

Propaganda brought on by the large lumber companies

At 4:00 i think the poison label was for the 80% alcohol in that tincture 😅

Don’t forget the old blue/jazz artists going well into the chitlin’ circuit….

Love the old photos, ads, etc., excellent work and very educational. "Cannabis" is the correct word. Coming to you from Denver and a devoted practitioner

Here in the Baja still token after 55 harvests. "Minu-juana", mixteco for good weed, "minu" and juana. A word I created here. "Abba Abba". good-bye in mixteco. Gracias for a great video!

Weed has helped me with so many things over 30+yrs of use - but the stigmas, restrictions, and discrimination from people/society (who are probably ok with alcohol) are the only roadblocks ive had in Life. Well now age too.

no wonder the neighbors thought it was funny when i loved la cucaracha (idk how to spell it) they knew i smoked weed and had no idea what it meant

@64 I’m still partaking and not just for the Buzz but for many medicinal reasons 🎉

I have never heard of anyone that died of solely cannabis use.

This is a ripe time period and setting for a great stoner movie.

Old moldy mexian bricks. Ah, the memories 😅

Respect. Glad I stumbled across this video!

1965 history textbook tells that crewmen on Transatlantic crossings chewed hemp rope to combat bordom. Early explorers would get stuck in duldrums where it came in handy.

Once when I was young I worked in a sugar plantation demolishing it for scrap.. I was up on the third floor at lunch when the police came and harvested weed in a field below me.. I watched an officer cut off all the tops and put it in a big bag than into the trunk of his car 😂 Hawaii plants grew way to tall I guess 🤣

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Thank you for your hard work and research and for passing the information on in an interesting manner

It never stopped being used as a medicine, jr.

Really enjoyed this. Very well made.

Thanks. Excellent video!

As a knucklehead that grew up in SD on a rez , riding and riding all the time taking care of cattle and hunting in vast areas. A good joint was a welcome thing come sundown when you're over exhausted and beat up. Really did wonders keeping your temperature down and helping you loosen up. Great medicine

This didn’t say crap about cowboys smoking weed.

"Yes, you can do all manner of things with hemp. Manufacture paper, fabric, rope... Why, I used to smoke about four feet of rope a day!" -Thomas Jefferson

That was a cool history lesson, thanks 👍

I live in Massachusetts where weed is legal for both recreational and medical use. I've had an MMJ card for 4 years and it helps with both my anxiety and chronic pain. I'm 60 and have been enjoying the herb since I was 13!

I can just waltz right into dispensaries and buy it legally here in Arizona. Never thought I would see the day. Been smoking since the mid 1990's when it was illegal. My mom used to tell me to just wait until her generation gets a little older and starts running the country and it will be legalized. She was right. She was a hippy from the 70's.

Very well done

And also, Thank you for explaining who the earliest cowboys were in this doc 🤠📖

It's a cool place to chill!😊

Super interesting topic! ❤

In the early '80's I worked with a lot of illegals from Mexico in South Texas. One day Immigration parked a Greyhound style bus at work. As people came to work, They were screened by La Migra. Those with a tan got a free bus ride back to Mexico. Got a new group of trabajadores very quickly. My new trainee lit up a joint at 7 am. "Hey gringo!,Te Gusta?"." Si,Me gusto". Smoked some weed grown way up in the mountains of Chihuahua by Yaqui Indians. It was very good

All botanists love cannabis.

The CBD gummies twice a day sure did put the fire 🔥 in my diabetic neuropathy feet out. I love it. Occasional THC gummie 5 or 10 mgs. Fix's my arthritis in the back. Told my doctor he was f.o.s. when he cancelled ME. I said if you're feet hurt like mine you would seek out a cure too!!. Got a better Dr now

Pancho villa was a deep thinker if he was a stoner 😅😂 true wild west rockstar right there.

Interesting To Note, merci. Cannabis Confidence.

Time to go after the true posion weeds, Water Hemlock.

King James I : "aye mane I heard yall got that STICKY over there😏🧐.. fw ya boi, sht crazy rn😮‍💨🤦🏿‍♂️"

Awesome Video!

Very interesting thanks for posting 😁👍

This is a documentary about HEMP

🎶The poets tell how Pancho fell And Lefty's living in cheap hotels The desert's quiet, Cleveland's cold And so the story ends we're told Pancho needs your prayers it's true But save a few for Lefty too He only did what he had to do And now he's growing old All the Federales say We could have had him any day We only let him go so long Out of kindness, I suppose🎶 Poncho & Lefty by Thomas Vanzant

Thank you for mentioning yaqui

Great unbiased content!

Is it really necessary to have that irritating background noise behind the narration ? Im interested in the content though Im having a hard time listening to the video on account of the distractingly annoying audio. It does nothing to add to nor does it seem related to the subject matter. Thank you.

No matter how desperate they were, I can't understand why people would smoke it as a tobacco substitute back then. It doesn't contain any nicotine so it doesn't seem like it would quite "scratch the itch" for a cowboy who finds himself far from civilization without any smokes and in the midst of a nic fit. 🤠

You know there were physicians selling "opium with cannabis extract (contains cocaine)"

Interesting, thanks.

They got the ancient stoned eyes right lol

My grandmother called it rabbit tobacco and smoked it in a corn cob pipe

this is really informative! thanks for this very awesome documentary!

I too have been in the field most of my days. 😉 🌿

The hemp grown was strictly for rope, burlap and a cloth. It wouldn't get a tessie fly high.

It must have smelled heavenly everywhere

People dont smoke to forget, people smoke to acquire insight.

Awesome video

I enjoyed the facts about Pancho Villa

Fitz Hugh Ludlow, Across The Continent 1870. I have a first edition. Fitz had a sense of humor. The Hasheesh Eater, 1857 he wrote when 20ys old. He touches on MJ. I collect old books on the exploration of the west. You don't see many references to MJ. Opium, yes. I own stuff like JC Fremont's 1844 exploratons, Stansbury 1852, Gunnsion 1853?, Van Tramp 1859, S Bowles 1870, Samuel Clement 1869, JH Beadle and Many other authors, explorers. You just don't hear much about MJ. I do own some newspapers from c. 1840-1875 So I'll look thru the ads..

So, Lucky Luke was always smoking a joint and not hand rolled cigarettes? 😮 Now it makes so much sense as to his laid back and chilled nature 😅