Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-26342224-20150503041738/@comment-26073467-20150523031501

Well, tolkien probably wouldn't have made pipeweed as in-depth as real life, plus update to the sixties it was believed that tobacco had no negative effects. Tolkien would also wouldn't have included Marijuana in a children's book,  nor an grownup book in a morally conservative time. He himself was an avid tobacco smoker, and he probably based it off of what was familiar.