HEMP HISTORY ARTICLES POSTED ON HEMPOLOGY.ORG

ARTICLES PUBLISHED BY THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT:
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

ARTICLES WRITTEN BY LYSTER H. DEWEY FOR THE USDA:
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


WORLD WAR II's HEMP FOR VICTORY CAMPAIGN:
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

OTHER HEMP ITEMS OF INTEREST:
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


HEMP POETRY, PROSE & MORE

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

"CURRENT" HISTORY:
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

Hemp and the Environment

Found this website from 1999:

Hemp helps detoxify and regenerate the soil

Falling leaves and shrubs not used in processing fall to the ground and replenish the soil with nutrients, nitrogen, and oxygen. This rich organic mulch promotes the development of fertile grassland. Some of the carbon which is "breathed" in by the plant in the form of CO2 is left in the roots and crop residues in the field. The CO2 is broken down by photosynthesis into carbon and oxygen, with oxygen being aspirated back into the atmosphere. With each season more CO2 is reduced from the air and added to the soil.

Hemp roots absorb and dissipate the energy of rain and runoff, which protects fertilizer, soil, and keeps seeds in place. Hemp plants slow down the velocity of runoff by absorbing moisture. By creating shade, hemp plants moderate extreme variations in temperatures, which conserves moisture in the soil. Hemp plants reduce the loss of topsoil in windy conditions. Hemp plants also loosen the earth for subsequent crops

Hemp plants can even pull nuclear toxins from the soil. In fact hemp was planted near and around the Chernobyl nuclear disaster site to pull radioactive elements from the ground. The process is called phyto-remediation, which means using plants (phyto) to clean up polluted sites. Phyto-remediation can be used to remove nuclear elements, and to clean up metals, pesticides, solvents, crude oil, and other toxins from landfills. Hemp breaks down pollutants and stabilizes metal contaminants by acting as a filter. Hemp is proving to be one of the best phyto-remediative plants found.

The minimum benefit of a hemp crop is in its use as a rotation crop. Since hemp stabilizes and enriches the soil farmers grow crops on, and provides them with weed-free fields, without cost of herbicides, it has value even if no part of the plant is being harvested and used. Any industry or monetary benefit beyond this value is a bonus. Rotating hemp with soy reduces cyst nematodes, a soy-decimating soil parasite, without any chemical input. Hemp could be grown as a rotation crop and not compete with any other food crops for the most productive farmland. Marginal lands make fine soil for hemp, or hemp can be grown in between growing seasons.


Hemp and the Environment

All hemp products are completely biodegradable, recyclable, and hemp is a reusable resource in every aspect: pulp, fiber, protein, cellulose, oil, or biomass.

Hemp can grow in any agronomic system, in any climate, and requires no herbicides, pesticides, fungicides, or insecticides to grow well. Hemp is its own fertilizer, its own herbicide (it is a weed), and its own pesticide. Hemp plants only need 10-13 inches of water, 1/3 of the amount which cotton requires, to grow to 8-12 feet in 3-4 months.

Using hemp as biomass fuel would also reduce global warming because the hemp energy crop would pull carbon from the air and realease an equal amount when burned, instead of just releasing carbon as petrolium gasoline does now.

Using hemp biomass to make charcoal, could eliminate the need to burn petrolium coal. Hemp biomass burns with virtually no sulfur emissions or ash, which minimize acid rain caused by the burning of coal.

Deforestation is a big problem. Keeping trees alive and standing is necessary to our oxygen supply, and our well being. Trees provide the infrastructure which keeps microbes, insects, plants, fungi, etc. alive. The older and bigger the tree, the better for the environment it is. The more trees there are, the more oxygen is in the air, which helps reduce global warming.

Hemp growing could completely eradicate the necessity to use wood at all because anything made from wood can be made from hemp, especially paper. The paper demand is suppose to double in next 25 years, and we simply cannot meet this demand without clear-cutting all of our forest. Using hemp for paper could reduce deforestation by half. An acre of hemp equals at least 4 acres of trees annually. Hemp paper can be recycled 7 to 8 times, compared with only 3 times for wood pulp paper. Hemp paper also does not need to be bleached with poisonous dioxins, which poison waterways.

Carpets made from nylon, polyester, and polypropylene contaminate ground water. Hemp carpet is biodegradable and safe for the ground water when it is discarded. In 1993, carpet made up 1% of solid waste, and 2% of waste by volume.

Our garbage facilities are overfilling with plastics. Hemp can make plastics which are biodegradable.

Petrochemicals lubricants, paints, sealants, etc., poison the ground when they are discarded. Hemp can replace all of these petroleum-based products with non-toxic biodegradable organic oil-based products.


"Why use the forests which were centuries in the making and the mines which required ages to lay down, if we can get the equivalent of forest and mineral products in the annual growth of the fields?"

--Henry Ford

#hempreneur

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Why didn't Obama Say Anything About Taxing Wall Street in His #SOTU Speech?

Who's getting off scott free from the crimes of the past 13 years? At least after the Savings & Loan debacle a few thousand bankers and corporate executives went to jail for their involvement.

With the global sub prime and banking crisis of 2008 NO ONE has faced jail time except peon ponzi scheme guys like Bernie Maddoff.

This is not fiction like the Wolf of Wall Street.  This is reality!  We are being robbed with a hidden tax called inflation, and a national debt to private central banks who control the money supply.

We all work for them! Every time you pay your taxes, every time you go to work.

Your JOB is the General Welfare! Start w/ TAXING Wall STREET! #stateoftheunion #SOTU #OurSOTU http://t.co/kTDW5XJH46 pic.twitter.com/EhZPNwdDpG
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@RonPaul has a few things to say about Obama's #SOTU! Don't you wish you had voted for him in 2008, 2012!

President Obama will deliver his sixth State of the Union address this Tuesday, Jan. 28 and you can bet your bottom dollar Ron Paul is going to unleash a dose of reality in response. There will be fireworks, and you can catch Ron Paul offer his unfiltered analysis live as it happens on Twitter. Ron Paul will have a copy of President Obama's speech in advance -- you can expect Ron Paul to roll through a revolving door of political punch-lines and in-depth critique, raising questions and concerns that Americans deserve to know about. When Obama brings up healthcare during his State of the Union address, he will defend it, but Ron Paul will interpret what Obama's is really saying and more importantly, what he is not saying. Tune in and be a part of the conversation that matters most to Americans. Ron Paul's job is to make sure you are a well-informed American who digs deep to find the truth -- this is a perfect opportunity to watch him read between the lines and sift through the agendas and non-accomplishments of the Obama administration. Come watch tonight's State of the Union with Ron: http://ronpaulchannel.com/SOTU

Top 10 Things Obama DID NOT Say in His #SOTU Speech That Matter!

These are the top 10 things you should know about that will not be mentioned in the #SOTU speech this evening.

1. Muslim terrorists did not act alone on 9/11, and yes, it was an INSIDE JOB.  Read "Another 19" and do your own research on World Trade Center 7 (WTC7).  A powerful new investigation is needed, but not another Warren Commission either.
2. The privately held Federal Reserve and its charter members have destroyed America; financial terrorism pure and simple.  The proof is everywhere.  Start here.
3. Independents, free from the propaganda of the Republican and Democrat parties (which are both controlled by the same oligopoly) number as much as 45%.  Too bad our issues and candidates can't get airtime on mainstream TV (owned and controlled by the same oligopoly).
4. Think tanks like the Council on Foreign Relations and tax free foundations such as the Rockefeller and Ford Foundations are NOT benign little philanthropic institutions.  They support TPP, NAFTA, TAFTA, and UN Agenda 21 to strip the sovereignty from every nation on earth to create their own little world government.  
5. Cannabis oil could be the cure for cancer and it's going mainstream, States are recognizing it's value.  Meanwhile, the US Federal government protects us from non-narcotic hemp (marijuana's cousin) "for our safety" and the benefit of the Rockefeller inspired medical industry.
6. Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) and TAFTA are not free trade agreements.  They are massive corporate lobbyist legislation designed to benefit offshore corporate profits.
7. The markets are rigged, the government knows it, and does nothing about it because it is held hostage.  LIBOR, currency markets, gold, silver, the stock market through high frequency trading, and so on.  Watch Keiser Report to learn more.
8. Government statistics on inflation and unemployment are rigged.  Inflation is running around 10%, not 2%.  Try shadowstats.com.  Unemployment us measured by the number of people on the government tit.  It should be measured by the participation rate which is at its lowest in nearly 40 years.
9. A small cluster of mega wealthy oligarchs do rule the world.  Not so secretly, but everyone with the goods on these guilty bastards are either in debt to them, enjoy the positive benefits, or guilty themselves. They attend Bilderberg, Davos, and make markets through their little clubs of investors. Listen to the Peace Revolution podcast and watch tragedyandhope.com to learn more.  It will take at least 100 hrs of research before you can get your arms around the whole thing.
10. The REAL power is held by the Council on Foreign Relations as they control foreign policy, as well as domestic economic policy.  Their members also make up the bulk of the Board of Directors, chief executives, and political appointees of every presidency since their founding in 1922.  They are a front group for the Royal Institute on International Affairs and JP Morgan.

And then there are the 32 alarming facts missing from his SOTU speech:

Submitted by Michael Snyder of The Economic Collapse blog,

Show this article to anyone that believes that the economy has actually improved under Barack Obama.  On Tuesday evening, the President once again attempted to convince all of us that things have gotten better while he has been in the White House.  He quoted a few figures, used some flowery language and made a whole bunch of new promises.  And even though he has failed to follow through on his promises time after time, millions upon millions of Americans continue to believe him. 

In fact, you can find a list of 82 unfulfilled promises from his previous State of the Union addresses right here.  Soon we will have even more to add to that collection. 

At this point, you have to wonder if Obama even believes half the stuff that he is saying.  Of course it is extremely unlikely that he is going to come out and admit that he has failed and that he has been lying to us this whole time, but without a doubt the gap between reality and what he is saying to the public is becoming ridiculously huge.  To say that his credibility is "strained" would be a massive understatement.  No, things have not been getting better in America.  In fact, they continue to get even worse.  The following are 32 statistics that Obama neglected to mention during the State of the Union address...

#1 According to a recent NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, only 28 percent of all Americans believe that the country is moving in the right direction.

#2 In 2008, 53 percent of all Americans considered themselves to be "middle class".  In 2014, only 44 percent of all Americans consider themselves to be "middle class".

#3 In 2008, 25 percent of all Americans in the 18 to 29-year-old age bracket considered themselves to be "lower class".  In 2014, an astounding49 percent of them do.

#4 Right now there is approximately a billion square feet of vacant retail space in the United States.

#5 There are 46.5 million Americans that are living in poverty, and the poverty rate in America has been at 15 percent or above for 3 consecutive years.  That is the first time that has happened since 1965.

#6 Barack Obama says that the unemployment rate has declined to 6.7 percent, but if the labor force participation rate was at the long-term average it would actually be approximately 11.5 percent, and it has stayed at about that level since the end of the last recession.

#7 While Barack Obama has been in the White House, the number of Americans on food stamps has gone from 32 million to 47 million.

#8 While Barack Obama has been in the White House, the percentage of working age Americans that are actually working has declined from 60.6 percent to 58.6 percent.

#9 While Barack Obama has been in the White House, the average duration of unemployment in the United States has risen from 19.8 weeks to37.1 weeks.

#10 While Barack Obama has been in the White House, social benefits as a percentage of real disposable income has risen from about 17 percent to nearly 21 percent.

#11 While Barack Obama has been in the White House, the rate of homeownership in the United States has fallen to levels that we have not seen in nearly two decades.

#12 While Barack Obama has been in the White House, median household income in the United States has fallen for five years in a row.

#13 While Barack Obama has been in the White House, the average cost of a gallon of gasoline has gone from $1.85 to $3.27.

#14 At the end of Barack Obama's first year in office, our yearly trade deficit with China was 226 billion dollars.  Now it is over 300 billion dollars.

#15 Workers are taking home the smallest share of the income pie that has ever been recorded.

#16 Sadly, 1,687,000 fewer Americans have jobs today compared to exactly six years ago even though the population has grown significantly since then.

#17 One recent study found that about 60 percent of the jobs that have been "created" since the end of the last recession pay $13.83 or less an hour.

#18 Only 47 percent of all adults in America have a full-time job at this point.

#19 It is hard to believe, but an astounding 53 percent of all American workers make less than $30,000 a year.

#20 The Obama years have been absolutely brutal for small businesses.  According to economist Tim Kane, the following is how the number of startup jobs per 1000 Americans breaks down by presidential administration...

Bush Sr.: 11.3

Clinton: 11.2

Bush Jr.: 10.8

Obama: 7.8

#21 You can still buy a house in the city of Detroit for just one dollar.

#22 The U.S. cattle herd is at a 61 year low.

#23 It is being projected that health insurance premiums for healthy 30-year-old men will rise by an average of 260 percent under Obamacare.

#24 According to the most recent numbers from the U.S. Census Bureau, an all-time record 49.2 percent of all Americans are receiving benefits from at least one government program each month.

#25 When Barack Obama was first elected, the U.S. debt to GDP ratio was under 70 percent.  Today, it is up to 101 percent.

#26 The U.S. national debt is on pace to more than double during the eight years of the Obama administration.  In other words, under Barack Obama the U.S. government will accumulate more debt than it did under all of the other presidents in U.S. history combined.

#27 Right now, there are 1.2 million students that attend public schools in the United States that are homeless.  That number has risen by 72 percent since the start of the last recession.

#28 Only 35 percent of all Americans say that they are better off financially than they were a year ago.

#29 Only 19 percent of all Americans believe that the job market is better than it was a year ago.

#30 According to a recent CNN poll, 70 percent of all Americans believe that "the economy is generally in poor shape".

#31 According to a recent Pew Research survey, only 19 percent of all Americans trust the government.   Back in 1958, 73 percent of all Americans trusted the government.

#32 According to another poll that was recently released, 70 percent of all Americans do not have confidence that the government will "make progress on the important problems and issues facing the country in 2014."

Average:

The Federal Reserve Has Destroyed America

There are hundreds of whistleblowers out there screaming at the top of their lungs trying to tell the world what is going on inside the banks and the Federal Reserve.  Very few are listening.  Isn't time you heard the evidence?



Obama's #SOTU speech tonight may talk about Treasury IRA's, another way to get your money locked up to pay for government debt.

Tweets about "#sotu"

Wondering who will take over the mantle of Treasury bond buyer now that the Fed is stepping away? Curious of the government's next steps towards repression and control of wealth? Wait no longer. As the AP reports, President Obama will unveil a new retirement savings plan tonight that allows first-time savers to buy US Treasury bonds tax-deferred for retirement. Of course, this is not the mandatory IRA that remains somewhat inevitable (as the muddle-through fails) but is certainly a step in the direction we alerted readers to a year ago by which thegovernment generously offers to help manage your retirement savings. Two words spring to mind... remember Poland.

Via AP,

Eager not to be limited by legislative gridlock, Obama is also expected to announce executive actions on job training, retirement security and help for the long-term unemployed in finding work.

Among those actions is a new retirement savings plan geared toward workers whose employers don't currently offer such plans.

The program would allow first-time savers to start building up savings in Treasury bonds that eventually could be converted into a traditional IRAs, according to two people who have discussed the proposal with the administration. Those people weren't authorized to discuss it ahead of the announcement and insisted on anonymity.

Of course, this is not what the CFPB suggested a year ago... We're sure the government is just trying to protect your retirement account from terrorists. From Bloomberg:

The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is weighing whether it should take on a role in helping Americans manage the $19.4 trillion they have put into retirement savings, a move that would be the agency’s first foray into consumer investments.

That’s one of the things we’ve been exploring and are interested in in terms of whether and what authority we have,” bureau director Richard Cordray said in an interview. He didn’t provide additional details.

The bureau’s core concern is that many Americans, notably those from the retiring Baby Boom generation, may fall prey to financial scams, according to three people briefed on the CFPB’s deliberations who asked not to be named because the matter is still under discussion.

Presenting: the MyRA, and since it offers "guaranteed return and no risk" we now know where all the Fed's bond trades will go to work once QE ends.

From the president:

Let’s do more to help Americans save for retirement. Today, most workers don’t have a pension. A Social Security check often isn’t enough on its own. And while the stock market has doubled over the last five years, that doesn’t help folks who don’t have 401ks. That’s why, tomorrow, I will direct the Treasury to create a new way for working Americans to start their own retirement savings: MyRA. It’s a new savings bond that encourages folks to build a nest egg. MyRA guarantees a decent return with no risk of losing what you put in. And if this Congress wants to help, work with me to fix an upside-down tax code that gives big tax breaks to help the wealthy save, but does little to nothing for middle-class Americans. Offer every American access to an automatic IRA on the job, so they can save at work just like everyone in this chamber can...

Or put another way - if you like your retirement account you can keep your retirement account.

And just like that, the "automatic" continuity to the Fed's Quantitative Easing is ensured.

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