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To: Renfield

My great uncle used to have a lot of volunteer hemp on his farm. He grew it during WWII for rope. The livestock wouldn’t eat it.


5 posted on 06/21/2013 7:35:38 AM PDT by CrazyIvan (Obama's birth certificate was found stapled to Soros's receilpt.)
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To: CrazyIvan

“My great uncle used to have a lot of volunteer hemp on his farm. He grew it during WWII for rope”

That can’t be true he must have been a dope dealer.

I know because I had a history professor one told me the Founding Fathers were dope dealers because they raised hemp.

I told her the hemp was for rope, mainly for sailing ships.

She told me she had been sailing and they didn’t use hemp ropes on sailing ships because it would rot. They used nylon on sailing ships.

You can’t argue with a genius.


21 posted on 06/21/2013 8:11:11 AM PDT by IMR 4350
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To: CrazyIvan
My great uncle used to have a lot of volunteer hemp on his farm. He grew it during WWII for rope.

I remember being a little kid in the 60s visiting my Grandpa in Iowa and him complaining about the long haired hippies from Iowa City coming around his place to pick the Iowana ditchweed that had been planted back in the war.

It took me another 10 years or so to find out/figure out what he was talking about.

25 posted on 06/21/2013 8:22:51 AM PDT by GBA (Here in the Matrix, life is but a dream.)
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To: CrazyIvan

Not being ruminants, swine don’t normally eat all that much forage. While this makes a great story, I’m just a little suspicious of its complete veracity.


27 posted on 06/21/2013 8:28:32 AM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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To: CrazyIvan

Difference between hemp and marijuana.


32 posted on 06/21/2013 9:38:58 AM PDT by autumnraine (America how long will you be so deaf and dumb to thoe tumbril wheels carrying you to the guillotine?)
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