When you take a look at Hemp History you learn why it is illegal to grow today, why it should be legalized, and how it relates to marijuana. The legalization of marijuana is one of the most controversial issues facing American citizens these days. U.S.Attorney General...
In Danville, Kentucky, Hemp History is being put on the map, quite literally, in the same style as the Kentucky Bourbon Trail. Daniel Isentein of Lexington, Kentucky, is putting together a self-guided tour that will take participants on a route that traces the history...
Industrial hemp was vital to the U.S. military during WWII, giving the plant a key role in U.S. Hemp History. The Illinois Medical Cannabis Pilot Program of 2013 lead to the opening of government-controlled marijuana dispensaries across the state. The medicinal...
North Carolina has a lengthy legal Hemp History. It’s been decades since being farmed in the state, but back in the 1800s and early 1900s it was grown for its fibre. The history of hemp goes back 10,000 years, when it was first used to make fibre. Today it is used to...
A couple made Hemp History this week with their engagement that took place during a hemp bill-signing ceremony in Pennsylvania. It was the first time a wedding proposal has happened during a bill signing. The newly-engaged couple, Les Stark and Erica McBride, met...
A plantation in Kentucky is making Hemp History with the harvest of its first hemp crop in over 150 years. The plantation, Farmington, was originally owned by the Speed Family. Back in the day, they grew 550 acres of hemp each year. Kentucky’s hemp pilot program...
West Virginia is making Hemp History as a small number of farmers are planting the first hemp seeds the state has seen since World War II. Because of being a close cousin to marijuana, hemp was made illegal in 1937 and, along with marijuana, added to the list of...
Marijuana plays a significant role in Hemp History. In the 1930s and 1940s hemp became so overly associated with marijuana, that when laws were put in place banning controlled substances, hemp got lumped in with marijuana. Industrial hemp and marijuana may well be...
No country has a more dramatic Hemp History than the U.S. Hemp continues to be included among the species of cannabis plants in the Schedule 1 controlled substances, making it illegal and controlled by the Drug Enforcement Administration. But just because it’s...
The state of Pennsylvania has a special place in Hemp History – it once produced more industrial hemp than any other state in the U.S. Perhaps history will one day repeat itself, as Pennsylvania signs up for the hemp pilot program. Gov. Tom Wolf has signed House...
