List of cannabis hoaxes
Cannabis has been the subject of many hoaxes, urban legends and fake news.
- Cannabis causes psychosis – no medical evidence has shown causation. Lately, however evidence is coming up, that cannabis does cause psychosis.[1]
- Monsanto GMO cannabis hoax – Purports that Monsanto has created genetically modifiedcannabis. Debunked by multiple sources including Monsanto with "standing denial" on "Myths About Monsanto" webpage.
- Rick Simpson Oil cures skin cancer – no medical evidence has shown causation.[2]
- International Space Station cannabis experiment hoax – shows an image of astronaut Chris Hadfield holding a baggie of cannabis on the International Space Station
- NASA marijuana experiments hoax – Purports that NASA has paid volunteers to smoke cannabis and lie in bed. NASA has never done the former, but has done the latter.
- Planet X637Z-43 – Purports that NASA observed a planet covered in cannabis. No extraterrestrial life has ever been found.
- Thomas Jefferson hemp smoking hoax – Purports that President Thomas Jefferson wrote about smoking hemp on his porch. He did not.
- Hemp Levi's jeans urban legend – Purports that the first pair of Levi's jeans was made out of hemp. They were actually cotton canvas.[3][4]
- United States Constitution was written on hemp paper.[5]
- pot brownies.
- No deaths attributed to cannabis – listed by California NORML as myth, due to elevated accident rates among users.[6]
- The Harry Anslinger during his 1930s anti-cannabis campaigns.[10]: 94
- McDonald's marijuana lounges – One of several McDonald's urban legends purports that the company's restaurants in Colorado are converting children's playgrounds to lounges for on-premises cannabis consumption. Circulated via Internet fake news sites since 2015, and has been disavowed by a McDonald's spokesperson.[11]
- Amtrak smoking cars – In 2022, a satirical Buffalo Chronicle story about Amtrak selling cannabis onboard U.S. trains, and allowing consumption in designated smoking cars, at the urging of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, a proponent of cannabis legalization, was reprinted in its entirety in Railway Age along with commentary. The story had Schumer saying the regulation "will improve the passenger experience and increase ticket sales".[12]
References
- PMID 36498129.
- ^ Heid, Markham. "Rick Simpson Oil (RSO) for Cancer: Does It Work?". WebMD.
- ^ Ten common myths about weed, Sensi Seeds, retrieved 2018-03-17
- ^ Browne, G.W. (1915). The Amoskeag Manufacturing Co. of Manchester, New Hampshire: A History. Printed [by] Amoskeag Manufacturing Company.
- ^ Busting some myths about the Founding Fathers and marijuana, National Constitution Center, November 9, 2012
- ^ "Marijuana Health Mythology". California NORML. Archived from the original on October 11, 2019.
- ^ Got to Pot – Fake news reports that Phillip Morris is bringing 'Marlboro M' brand marijuana cigarettes to market., snopes.com, accessed April 1, 2018
- ^ HOLMES LYBRAND (February 12, 2018), "Fact Check: Is Marlboro Selling Marijuana Cigarettes? Not now, and not even on 4/20.", The Weekly Standard
- ISBN 978-0-19-026347-8.
- ISBN 978-1-4422-5470-1
- ^ NOT REAL NEWS: McDonald's not adding pot-smoking centers, Associated Press, April 17, 2018
- ^ William C. Vantuono (October 24, 2022), "All Aboard Amtrak's Mary Jane Limited?", Railway Age