A California company made Hemp History last month, with the first shipment of hemp being transported across state lines by rail in 84 years.
Golden State Hemp farm in Fresno, California, shipped approximately 17,000 pounds of hemp on the Union Pacific railroad, to Denver, Colorado. It was 84 years ago that hemp was banned in the U.S.
Hemp has been cultivated on the planet since 8,000 BC. The earliest signs of hemp farming in the U.S. date back to 1632. At one time, the government requisitioned farmers to grow hemp, and it’s a known fact that presidents George Washington and Thomas Jefferson grew hemp on themselves.
Transporting hemp by rail rather than trucks greatly reduces the environmental impact. This fits the company’s philosophy of zero waste and their mission of ‘Changing the world one acre at a time.’
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