When people were fined for not smoking Marijuana!

queen Elizabeth smoking marijuana

When People Were Fined for NOT Growing Marijuana 

In today’s modern era where conservative politics and the meddling government plays a big role in substance control, you can pay a hefty fine and face incarceration for growing your own marijuana.  According to NORMAL Federal Law dictates that even growing one plant in your basement can warrant one year in jail with a $1,000 fine. If you are caught selling less than 50g of pot it is considered a felony and a judge can send you to prison for up to 5 years with a $250,000 fine. Now imagine a time and a place where the government PAYS YOU to grow and sell marijuana! Sounds too good to be true, right? The next time you light up one of your smoking pipes close your eyes and think back to the year 1558—a time when the English Reformation was well under way in what historians refer to as the “golden age of English history”, and where Queen Elizabeth I barely made it to the thrown after being thrown into the Tower of London where she was threatened to be put to death by her sister, Queen Mary. After spending time in a disease nest like that with views of bloodied severed Protestant heads speared on pikes from her window, it seems clear why she legalized pot, right? Was Elizabeth the Queen of Green?                    landowners with more than 60 acres of land were required to grow cannabis as one of their primary crops, and if they didn’t they would have to pay the crown 5 pounds (the equivalent of roughly $1000 in today’s exchange rate and financial market). We don’t have proof that the queen actually smoked the green stuff, and it is even rumored that she swore off pleasure in the form of excess. However, it is safe to assume she wouldn’t have judged those who did pick up a stone smoking pipe and toked the ganja if we are to examine her dialogue in the Catholic / Protestant Issue, for she famously said, “I have no desire to make windows into men’s souls”. In other words, if a Catholic wanted to live in her realm and cross themselves before the Virgin in the secrecy of their own home, the Queen was not about to read their heart and burn them at the stake for nonconformist behavior. It is therefore plausible that such nonchalant thinking would have extending to the smoking of marijuana.  Didn’t She Toke the Pipe Just a Few Times? Given her history, it seems only commonplace that she would have smoked a fat blunt, but historians have no proof. Let’s look at some facts: Her father, Henry VIII, be-headed her mother and another one of his wives.

  • Her father was distantly related to all of his wives through King Edward I, making Elizabeth a product of incest.
  • Her father changed the country’s religion to Protestantism just so he could legally divorce.
  • Her sister, Queen Mary I was nicknamed “Bloody Mary” and burned over 300 people at the stake within her short reign from 1553 to 1558 (she died of cancer).

Sixteenth Century England was a tumultuous time in which her Protestant sovereign was building an army and navy to fight off the threat from Catholic Spain and its infamous Spanish Armada. Materials were needed for sails, rope, various types of weaponry, and other instruments that could be used to blow those Catholics back across the sea. The only problem was that landowners cared more about cultivating grains and vegetables, as the not too distant memories of plague and starvation still haunted the European mindset. As a means to encourage farmers to grow cannabis, in 1563 Elizabeth made it a law that allow weed smokers to smoke there weed

  • Mary I tossed Elizabeth in the Tower of London, threatened her life, and exiled her.
  • Elizabeth never married and swore to reign with “the heart of a man” (confused gender identity me thinks).
  • Here you have all the makings for a trashy reality TV show, but this is Elizabethan drama at its finest and one can only feign a guess that surely Queen Elizabeth must have lit up a wood pipe to deal with the psychological trauma that stung her at her core. Furthermore, if she was a lesbian just imagine her trying to rule and live in a land that had been the trampled victim of a holy tug-of-war between the Catholics and the Protestants. When Lord Robert Dudley asked the Queen’s hand in marriage she replied, “I will have here but one mistress and no master”. If in fact she preferred oysters to English sausage, and the Church of England watched her every move, how could she have ruled with a scepter in one hand and a smoking pipe in the other! Oh hail the Queen of Green! God Save the Queen!
  • “There is nothing like being left alone . . . to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one’s coffee and fill one’s pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it.”
    -Knut Hamsun” when it come to best sm0king pipes you can find it at the pipe depot best online pipe store.
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