A short piece from 1797 that documents the fact that 50 tons of hemp was used on the U.S.S. Constitution:
1797: SECRETARY OF WAR: CONSTITUTION'S HEMP
1810: JOHN QUINCY ADAMS RE; RUSSIAN HEMP CULTIVATION
1827: U.S. NAVY COMMISSIONER RE; WATER-ROTTED HEMP
1837: DRAWBACK OF DUTIES ON HEMP (TEXT)
1856: FLAX AND HEMP CULTURE IN RUSSIA
1873: HEMP CULTURE IN JAPAN
1895: USDA RE; HEMP SEED
1899: USDA SECRETARY RE; HEMP
1909: USDA SECRETARY FIBER INVESTIGATIONS RE; HEMP & FLAX
1917: USDA HEMP SEED SUPPLY OF THE NATION
1917: USDA RE; CANNABIS
1947: USDA RE; HEMP DAY LENGTH & FLOWERING
1956: USDA MONOECIOUS HEMP BREEDING IN THE U.S.
1970: USDA DRAWINGS AND DISTRIBUTION OF HEMP
1901: USDA LYSTER DEWEY RE; HEMP & FLAX SEED
1901: USDA LYSTER DEWEY 13 PAGE ARTICLE ON HEMP
1903: USDA LYSTER DEWEY RE; PRINCIPAL COMMERCIAL PLANT FIBERS
1910: USDA LYSTER DEWEY RE; HEMP CULTIVATION - CIRCULAR 57
1913: USDA LYSTER DEWEY RE; HEMP SOILS, YIELD, ECONOMICS
1913: USDA LYSTER DEWEY RE; TESTS FOR HEMP, LIST OF PRODUCTS
Co-authored by Lyster H. Dewey, this landmark study is the basis for the modern day mantra that hemp produces 4 times as much paper per acre than trees:
1916: USDA BULLETIN 404 - HEMP HURDS AS A PAPER MAKING MATERIAL
1927: USDA LYSTER DEWEY RE; HEMP VARIETIES
1931: USDA LYSTER DEWEY RE; HEMP FIBER LOSING GROUND
MASTER IMAGE AND ARTICLE INDEX FROM MINNESOTA'S HEMP FOR VICTORY CAMPAIGN
1942: TEXT OF USDA's HEMP FOR VICTORY FILM
1942: FARM JOURNAL & FARMER'S WIFE RE; WAR DEMANDS MORE HEMP
1943: ILL.AG.MAG. RE; HEMP FOR VICTORY IN
1943: POPULAR SCIENCE RE; ROPE WITHOUT DOPE (REEFER MADNESS AT WORK)
1943: KENTUCKY HEMP SEED PROJECT FOR 4-H CLUBS
1955: HEMP INFO FROM TEXTILE TEXTBOOK
2001: USE OF WWII POWs IN ILLINOIS HEMP FIELDS
1642-1931: BOSTON HEMP REFERENCES WITH EXCERPTS
1752: HEMP MILL IN BETHLEHEM PENNSYLVANIA
1763: JOHN ADAMS IN BOSTON EVENING POST
1770: BOSTON MASSACRE EXCERPTS AND PICTURES
1791: EARLY AMERICAN HEMP CULTIVATION
HEMP STATISTICS (IMPORTS, EXPORTS, ETC.)
You can now read what Marco Polo, Sir Francis Drake, Shakespeare, Benjamin Franklin, Adam Smith, Thomas Paine, Charles Darwin, Mark Twain, Robert Louis Stevenson and many others wrote about cannabis hemp. Over 50 different sources dating from Aesop's Fables and the Buddhist Doctrine written around 500bc to the Presidential Proclamations & Executive Orders written in 1989 have been indexed and chronologically listed here:
OVER 50 INDEXED HISTORICAL HEMP REFERENCES FROM ECO'FIELDS
Several articles from 1828 and 1829 that contain import statistics and discussion of an excellent hemp breaking machine, or decorticator:
1828: IMPORT STATS AND HEMP BREAKING MACHINE
1853-1862: MORMON HEMP HISTORY FROM JOURNALS OF DISCOURSE
1861: LEXINGTON MISSOURI'S CIVIL WAR BATTLE OF THE HEMP BALES
1862 HEMP AND FLAX GIN - ARTICLE AND IMAGE
An excellent overview of the hemp industry in 1907 that contains production statistics by state and $ returns by acre:
1907; CYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN AGRICULTURE - HEMP
1918: WISCONSIN'S HEMP INDUSTRY - BULLETIN 293
INFO ABOUT THE 1ST AMERICAN ARRESTED FOR MARIJUANA
1937: 1ST AMERICAN ARRESTED INDEX
1941: INFO ABOUT & VIDEO LINK TO HENRY FORD'S HEMP CAR
1944: ARTICLE ON VAT RETTING OF HEMP
1961: HARRY J. ANSLINGER ON MARIJUANA
1969: HEMP - THE WORLD'S MAJOR FIBRE CROPS, THEIR CULTIVATION AND MANURING
LONGFELLOW'S "ROPEWALK" POEM
1859: LONGFELLOW'S ROPEWALK POEM
THIS IS AN EXCERPT FROM A NOVEL WRITTEN IN 1900:
1900: J.ALLEN RE; A TALE OF THE KENTUCKY HEMP FIELDS
HEMP POEM BY BETHLEHEM PENN. NATIVE STEPEN VINCENT BENET:
1918: HEMP POEM BY STEPHEN VICENT BENET
A RECENTLY WRITTEN POEM SUMMARIZING HEMP'S SITUATION:
HEMP RAP BY JERI ROSE
TWO ESSAYS WRITTEN BY MINNESOTA'S FOREMOST HEMPOLOGIST:
1999: PUTTENHAM'S PURPLE PAWNEE PRINCESS
1999: I HAD A DREAM BY CD PUTTENHAM
2008: HEMP IN THE BRITISH ISLES
1996: BAST FIBER APPLICATIONS FOR COMPOSITES
1996: DEA FERAL HEMP ERADICATION STATISTICS
2000: HEMP RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT BY AMERICAN EAGLE SEEDS
2000: DEA INVADES AND DESTROYS SIOUX HEMP
2000: OGLALA SIOUX TRIBE PLANTS HEMP
2004: GLOBALHEMP.COM - HEMP NEWS
ARTICLES AND EDITORIALS WRITTEN BY JOHN E. DVORAK, HEMPOLOGIST:
HEMP HISTORY:
HEMP HISTORY IN NEW ENGLAND
BOSTON'S HEMP HISTORY
CONFERENCE REVIEWS:
1996 CANNABIS CUP HEMP EXPO
HEMP EXPO AT 1997 CANNABIS CUP
1997 BIORESOURCE HEMP SYMPOSIUM REVIEW
EDITORIALS:
THE HEMP CASINO
ROPE VS. DOPE: THE CANNABIS CONUNDRUM
U.S.S. CONSTITUTION: WHERE'S THE HEMP?
CLEAR CUTTING THE PROHIBITION TREE
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