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THE HISTORY & VERSATILITY OF HEMP

As one of the earliest colonies used hemp as a form of could no longer be grown in the
domesticated crops, hemp has legal tender. Anyone who did not U.S. without a permit from the U.S.
been used throughout the ages as grow hemp on their land was fined. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA).
a source of food, textiles, and herbal Since that time, industries relying on
medicine. While ancient Chinese Hemp was so widely used in the industrial hemp were forced to use
Emperor Shen Nung is credited for U.S., some historians believe com- imported hemp.
teaching his people to cultivate peting industries that considered
hemp for cloth in the 28th century hemp a threat to their livelihood While hemp has been grown in a
BC, archaeologists found remnants (paper, pesticides, and oil) began significant number of states for
of hemp cloth in Mesopotamia (now a campaign to directly associate research and pilot programs since
Iran and Iraq) that dated back to industrial hemp with its cannabis the implementation of the 2014
8,000 BC. It is commonly believed cousin, marijuana. Farm Bill, it was the signing of the
that hemp arrived in Europe in 1200 2018 Farm Bill that legalized the
BC and quickly spread throughout When the Marijuana Tax Act was cultivation of hemp crops in all
the ancient civilizations. signed to law in 1937 to minimize 50 states. As the production of
marijuana use, the government also domestic hemp increases, product
It was the Puritans who first brought imposed heavy licensing restrictions manufacturers will no longer have to
hemp seeds to Colonial America. and hefty taxes on hemp farmers, rely on imported crops, potentially
Hemp was used to create the sails, raising the cost of cultivating providing substantial economic
ropes, and caulk used on British industrial hemp. The resulting benefit for our country.
sailing vessels. Due to the high financial burdens made hemp
demand for hemp, British colonies farming significantly less profitable. Hemp is still used in many indus-
were required to grow hemp crops At this time hemp and marijuana tries. Today, we better understand
to create products intended for were still recognized as individual what our ancestors discovered long
British consumption. plants with significantly different ago. We know why hemp fibers are
properties. That changed with the strong, we recognize the specific
Early American Presidents Washing- Controlled Substance Act of 1970, nutrients in hemp seeds, and we
ton and Jefferson were both known which specified cannabis, rather have identified the elements that
to have grown hemp on their land. than marijuana, as a Schedule I give hemp oil the potential to
In Colonial America, hemp was still a drug. With the reclassification, hemp influence our health.
required crop, and at least three

1535
Henry VIII passed an act compelling
all landowners to sow 1/4 of an acre
of hemp, or be fined 8000 BCE
Hemp seeds and leaves were found in
Berlin, Germany. Use of hemp continues
1940 to spread across northern Europe 8000 BCE
1616
Roger Adams isolates CBD from marijuana, Traces of hemp have been found in
but didn’t exactly know what he had found Settlers in North America modern day China and Taiwan.
brought hemp seeds 1964 Evidence shows that hemp was used
with them and began for pottery and food (seed & oil)
cultivating the crop in Raphael Mechoulam
2018 Jamestown, Virginia isolates and describes
The 2018 Farm Bill removed the chemical structure
Hemp from the Controlled of CBD
Substances list, o”cially
legalizing its cultivation and
extraction on a federal level
for the first time since 1970

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