How cannabis is consumed. In a 2010 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), 17.4 million people in the United States said they had used marijuana in the past month. According to the survey, marijuana is the most commonly used illegal drug.
Now the largest city in Pennsylvania, Philadelphia served as the nationâs capital from 1790 until a permanent capital was established in Washington, D.C., in 1800. Both the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution were signed in Philadelphia.
William Penn founded the colony of Pennsylvania in 1681. He came from a wealthy family and was a personal friend of King Charles II. At age 22,Penn shocked his family and fri â¦ ends by joining the Quakers, one of the most despised religious groups in England. Like Pilgrims and Puritans, Quakers were Protestant reformers.he king named the new colony Pennsylvania, or Penn's woodlands. Penn thought of his colony as a  holy experiment. He wanted it to be a model of religious freedom, peace, and Christian living.