It is a fact that Brigham Young himself directed his flock to grow cannabis.
From a document by an Idaho state Rep (Tom Trail)
Seven states have approved hemp cultivation. Many more might follow if North Dakota clears all the administrative and legal hurdles. Idaho Rep. Tom Trail, R-Moscow, says he will resubmit a thrice-rejected bill allowing farmers to plant hemp if North Dakota succeeds. To the Eastern Idaho legislators who object, Trail notes that Brigham Young, patriarch of the early Mormon Church, directed Utah settlers to grow hemp.
“I think it’s a good crop,” Trail says.
Here are other references to Brigham Young’s direction to Mormon settlers.
(he also instructed them to grow tobacco)
A.D. 1854. The earliest paper to be made in Utah was formed by hand by Thomas Howard, an English Mormon, assisted by Thomas Hollis. The small beginning was sponsored by Brigham Young (1801-77) and the Mormon Church. The first sheets of paper were produced on June 27, 1854 and probably found their original use in the printing of the Deseret News, Brigham Young‘s newspaper, which began publication in Great Salt Lake City, June 15, 1850 this notice appeared in his newspaper: Rags! Rags! Rags! Save your rags, everybody in Deseret, save your rags; old wagon covers [hemp], tents [hemp], quilts [hemp and flax], shirts [hemp], etc., are wanted for paper. [First mill opened in the Far West.]
http://www.hempmuseum.org/SUBROOMS/HEMP%20PAPER%20CHRON.htm
This one from Rep. Tom Trails of Idaho:
http://www.infotrail.com/idaho2008/Pre_Legislative_Update/Hemp_Update/hemp_update.html
Like the prohibition in the 30′s that cost much money and many lives. This prohibition (of cannabis) will end too!
