Francis Bacon writing about marijuana

Yeah, you can thank me sometime. You're welcome.

You ought to know concerning the Quintessence, that it is a matter little and small, lodged and harbored in some Tree, Herb, Stone, or the like...
The Tomb of Semiramis
 https://www.alchemywebsite.com/tumba.html

The entry of truth depends on the mind capable to lodge and harbor it.
Novum Organum

I like better that entry of truth which comes peaceably, as with chalk to mark up those minds which are capable to lodge and harbor such a guest, than that which forces its way with pugnacity and contention.
De augmentis scientiarum 

Just to be thorough, this is the full context of the last passage, which is pertinent to the way a Messiah should conquer, I think. By persuasion and not force. The first is Bacon, I believe the second passage is him as well, it's earlier, late 1570s. 

Interpretation of Nature:

This bias, as we think, ought to be counteracted, and these our statements have this scope, (we speak it without reserve), to lead men willing, not to drag them reluctant. All forcing, (as we from the first professed), we would banish: and as Borgia jestingly noted of the invasion of Italy by Charles the Eighth, that the French had come with chalk in their hand to mark the public-houses, not arms to force their way through the land; so we too anticipate a like pacific tone and result of our discoveries, namely, that they shall segregate minds of large capacity from the crowd, and into these shall make their way, rather than be obnoxious to men of opposite opinions.


French Academy:

​Hereupon it came that king Charles the eighth easily overran all Italy with chalk, as we used to speak; that is to say that without resistance he sent before to take up his lodging, because they that should have withstood him and were called in to keep the country, did of their own accord take his part.