Eighty years ago at the Antietam battlefield, the big problem apparently wasn't relic hunters, it was marijuana. "The drug on which the Federal government has been waging a war for years,” the Hagerstown (Md.) Morning Herald reported on Oct. 6, 1937, “has been found in abundance in Washington county including, of all places, Antietam Battlefield in Sharpsburg."
Battlefield workers and narcotics agents “formed an army of destruction,” burning the weed near Burnside Bridge and on nearby farms. The marijuana plants were discovered by Federal investigators who “were enroute to an alleged still.” At least one farmer may have been pleased by their work.
“… the mystery of the peculiar conduct of his horses which have been eating the plants at random,” the newspaper reported, “has been solved.”
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