To: Red Badger
Abbie Hoffmann used to claim that George Washington was a pothead because he grew hemp on his plantation. I even live in a township named for the Hempfield(s) which were once grown by Colonial farmers of German ancestry.
Hemp was an important industrial crop back in the day.
4 posted on
01/15/2020 11:06:55 AM PST by
Vigilanteman
(The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
To: Vigilanteman
Hemp was huge for sails and the shipping industries.
To: Vigilanteman
“Hemp was an important industrial crop back in the day. “
WWII.
34 posted on
01/15/2020 11:24:30 AM PST by
dljordan
To: Vigilanteman
71 posted on
01/15/2020 12:49:17 PM PST by
Osage Orange
(Whiskey Tango Foxtrot)
To: Vigilanteman
Hemp was an important industrial crop back in the day.Major understatement. It literally drove the engine of commerce until the steam age.
75 posted on
01/15/2020 1:20:13 PM PST by
rawcatslyentist
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfuAJcWl6DE Kill a Commie for Mommie)
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