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7 Weird Moments in Weed History from the Fact Snack Vault

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Do you have any idea how long people have been smoking marijuana?

It’s been happening for longer than a lot of archaeologists thought, too.

And did you know that Bill Murray owes his comedy career to weed?

Though that story probably doesn’t play out like you’d imagine, either.

When weed, history, and pop culture intersect, you get gems like these from the Fact Snacks archive:

#7. Humans have been smoking weed for at least 2,700 years.

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#6. If Shakespeare wasn’t a pot-head, his friends most certainly were.

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#5. Bill Murray owes his career to weed, sort of…

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#4. Stanford and MIT make a deal…

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#3. Cheech Marin will crush you at Jeopardy!

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“He not only beat me. He crushed me.”

-Anderson Cooper.

Cooper said he felt a bit of relief when he first heard he was going up against Marin.

Cooper should have used his fancy journalism machine to look up some facts about Cheech.

Marin won the very first Celebrity Jeopardy! Tournament way back in 1992.

#2. Girl Scouts team up with weed shop.

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#1. Bob Marley’s son flipped a prison into a pot farm.

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