This is an interesting overview of the connections between the Templars, the Assassins and Marijuana….. Doesn’t make any concrete claims, but sure points out some interesting evidence, and a preponderance of it, well, ya sure can’t dismiss it out of hand…
http://www.cannabisculture.com/content/2017/10/13/cannabis-secrets-templars
They will cleave to the name of a dead man, thinking that they will become pure. But they will become greatly defiled and they will fall into the name of error and into the hand of an evil, cunning man and a manifold dogma……there shall be others of those who are outside our number who name themselves bishop and also deacons, as if they have received their authority from God. They bend themselves under the judgment of the leaders. These people are dry canals.
