Thomas Jefferson hemp smoking hoax

The Thomas Jefferson hemp smoking hoax concerns a quote misattributed to U.S. President Thomas Jefferson:

Some of my finest hours have been spent on my back veranda, smoking hemp and observing as far as my eye can see.

Although he may have raised hemp, according to reliable sources, Jefferson was not the source of the phrase, which is in fact a modern invention.[1][2][3] It reportedly appeared as an Internet hoax in 2008 and was first printed in 2013,[4] and has been described by American University School of Communication professor W. Joseph Campbell in Getting It Wrong: Debunking the Greatest Myths in American Journalism as "fake news" predating Facebook.[5] According to Campbell, pro-legalization U.S. presidential candidate Gary Johnson repeated the quote during a 2012 television interview.[6] The quote has also been attributed to Jefferson in print newspapers, such as Detroit Free Press and newspapers in British Columbia and India,[6] and Internet image macros featuring the quote.[7]

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References
  1. "History of Cannabis, Part 2". NIDA for Teens. March 5, 2015. Retrieved 2017-05-10.
  2. McFarland, Melanie (October 9, 2014). "10 surprising facts about the history of pot". Salon. Retrieved 2017-05-10.
  3. Roberts, Chris (February 17, 2014). "11 US Presidents Who Smoked Marijuana". High Times. Retrieved 2017-05-10.
  4. "Some of my finest hours have been spent on my back veranda, smoking hemp... (Quotation)". Thomas Jefferson's Monticello (website). May 2, 2013. Retrieved 2017-05-10.
  5. Gregg Sangillo (March 2, 2017), Legend Has It: Prof Shows Fake News a Problem Long Before Facebook, American University
  6. Campbell, W. Joseph (2016), Getting It Wrong: Debunking the Greatest Myths in American Journalism, University of California Press, p. 222, ISBN 9780520965119
  7. Walter Hickey (April 14, 2014), "It's Thomas Jefferson Day: Here Are 19 Famous 'Quotes' That He Never Actually Said", Business Insider Australia
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