Potheads explaining history

If you ever listen to a pothead explaining history of drugs, it is very funny. All the facts line up around their certainty that drugs are good, to pacify their terrible insecurity about themselves. It's full of nonsense.

In this clip from the movie "Time Bandits" (1981) Napoleon explains to a group of interested dwarfs that all great men were short, his self-serving history of the world.

It's hard to hear the dialogue, so it's put here.

You know, you are the best thing...
to happen to me since this whole campaign.
You know, I come to conquer Italy...
because I thought they were all small, you know ?
I heard they was really tiny guys.
Sir, I really think there are more important things--
Shut up !
Don't you dare to tell me my business.
You are dismissed, you hear ? You, Lucien, the rest of you.
Great streaks of misery.
- But sir--- No !
I'm going to have some new generals for a bit.
Alexander the Great...
five feet exactly.
Isn't that incredible ?
Alexander the Great, whose empire stretched from lndia to Hungary--
One inch shorter than me.
Oliver Cromwell...
the only man with any guts in British history--
Not a big man at all.
Louis IV, 5' 2 1/2".
Charlemagne...
a dumpy little five-footer.
- Squatty little chap.
Attila the Hun, 5' 1 1/2".
Cyrano de Bergerac, 5' 3 1/2".
Tamburlaine the Great, four-foot-nine...
and three quarters.

Have I become mean? No. I'm tired of listening to nonsense, and having to be polite as people destroy their lives.

Potheads have a simple worldview, that can be charted in a graphic. In the center is a pot. Picture it as a kind of mountain or temple. Next they take everything and drape it around that. That's it. The world is arranged in such a way as pot is good, and what helps is tossed on as doctrine and what doesn't is ignored as government propaganda and bad science and sinister forces. Everyone's after their pot.

After Napoleon passes out from drink, the tiny time bandits steal everything in the house and go.

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The following is lifted from Wikipedia (retrieved 16:28, 8 May 2006):

The most famous users of cannabis were the ancient Hindus. It was called 'ganjika' in Sanskrit ('ganja' in modern Indian languages). According to legend, Shiva, the destructive aspect of the Hindu trinity, told his disciples to revere the plant. The ancient drug soma, mentioned in the Vedas as a sacred intoxicating hallucinogen, was sometimes associated with cannabis. It has also been identified with a number of other plants and a mushroom, Amanita muscaria, so the involvement of cannabis cannot be definitively quantified.

Cannabis was also known to the Scythians, as well as to the Thracians/Dacians (ancestors of present day Eastern-Europeans), whose shamans (the kapnobatai - "those who walk on smoke/clouds") burned cannabis flowers in order to induce trances. The cult of Dionysus, which is believed to have originated in Thrace, is also believed to have inhaled cannabis smoke.

No references given. Note pot shows up 'everywhere' in history. So lovely, neat, and convenient. See Meher Baba and Marijuana to see what Baba had to say about such ancient use of ganja.