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Fun facts of the week: Hemp
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Fun facts of the week: hemp
All schoolbooks were made from hemp or flax paper until the 1880s.
From 1631 until the early 1800s, it was legal to pay taxes with hemp in the U.S.
You could go to jail in the U.S. if you refuse to grew hemp from 1763 to 1769.
Benjamin Franklin owned one of the first paper mills in America.
The War of 1812 was fought over hemp.
For thousands of years, 90% of all ships’ sails and rope were made from hemp.
Until 1820 when cotton gin was introduced, all textile, fabric, cloth, linen, drapes, bed sheets, etc, were made from hemp.
Oldest known records of hemp farming go back 5000 years in China.
The first crop grown in may state was hemp.
In 1850 was a peak year for Kentucky producing 40,000 tons.
Henry Ford’s first Model-T was built to run on hemp gasoline and the car itself was constructed from hemp!
Hemp is the number one biomass producer on planet earth
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