It’s Hemp History Week in the U.S., which means it’s time kick up yer heels and celebrate this miracle plant! Hemp History Week is appropriately based in Colorado, where some of the first legalisation of cannabis took place, making the state one of the hemp hot spots...
Jersey’s Hemp History will experience a revival this growing season, as hemp crops will be cultivated throughout the island. For three former firefighters it will actually be the second growing season. With permission from Health Minister Andrew Green, they grew...
In some places in the world, marijuana, both medical and recreational, has been made legal, but somewhere in there, Hemp History has been forgotten. There are two species of the Cannabis Sativa plant, one of which is more well known, and gives a psychoactive high....
If the skeptics of industrial hemp took a closer look at the Hemp History of the U.S.A., they’d soon realise that it’s not a new crop for the U.S., but one that deserves a revival. Two U.S. Senate Majority Leaders, Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul, are proposing the...
Another U.S. state is making Hemp History with the launch of their first hemp pilot program. South Carolina has given the stamp of approval to twenty farmers who are now permitted to grow industrial hemp. After twenty years of wanting to grow hemp, farmer Nat Bradford...
To understand the current status of industrial hemp in the U.S., one needs to look at Hemp History, and how it became illegal in 1937. First, let’s clear up the misconception that hemp and marijuana are the same. They are both species of the cannabis sativa plant, but...
Take a look at Hemp History and you will soon discover that it reaches all around the globe, and for thousands of years. Even the Romans have a place in hemp history, dating back to the Julius Caesar days, and U.S. presidents Washington and Jefferson both farmed hemp...
Befitting to Kentucky’s Hemp History, Laura Freeman of Laura’s Lean Beef now has a collection of hemp products available. Her hemp business is located at her Winchester farm in Clark County, where at one time in history, hemp flourished. To see the beginning of hemp...
When it comes to ancient human artifacts, Hemp History should not be overlooked. The oldest piece of a man-made product is a fragment of hemp fabric dating all the way back to 8,000 B.C., as written in “The Columbia History of the World. U.S. presidents Washington and...
Although there is Hemp History in Washington, the first legal crop in almost 90 years is causing unforeseen problems for one Washington farmer. Cory Sharp, a trailblazer for a new hemp-growing industry in Washington, has just celebrated his first harvest and although...
