Hemp Information

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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: http://www.hempology.org/ALL%20HISTO...BFRIGATES.html

1810: JOHN QUINCY ADAMS RE; RUSSIAN HEMP CULTIVATION: http://www.hempology.org/ALL%20HISTO...Y%20ADAMS.html

1827: U.S. NAVY COMMISSIONER RE; WATER-ROTTED HEMP: http://www.hempology.org/ALL%20HISTO...3BCOMMISH.html

1837: DRAWBACK OF DUTIES ON HEMP (TEXT) http://www.hempology.org/ALL%20HISTO...TY%20TEXT.html

1856: FLAX AND HEMP CULTURE IN RUSSIA http://www.hempology.org/ALL%20HISTO...%20IN%20RUSSIA

1873: HEMP CULTURE IN JAPAN http://www.hempology.org/ALL%20HISTO...3%3BJAPAN.html

1895: USDA RE; HEMP SEED http://www.hempology.org/ALL%20HISTO...BHEMPSEED.html

1899: USDA SECRETARY RE; HEMP http://www.hempology.org/ALL%20HISTO...SECRETARY.html

1909: USDA SECRETARY FIBER INVESTIGATIONS RE; HEMP & FLAX http://www.hempology.org/ALL%20HISTO...ECRETARTY.html

1917: USDA HEMP SEED SUPPLY OF THE NATION http://www.hempology.org/ALL%20HISTO...EEDSUPPLY.html

1917: USDA RE; CANNABIS http://www.hempology.org/ALL%20HISTO...BCANNABIS.html

1947: USDA RE; HEMP DAY LENGTH & FLOWERING http://www.hempology.org/ALL%20HISTO...FLOWERING.html

1956: USDA MONOECIOUS HEMP BREEDING IN THE U.S. http://www.hempology.org/ALL%20HISTO...SBREEDING.html

1970: USDA DRAWINGS AND DISTRIBUTION OF HEMP http://www.hempology.org/ALL%20HISTO...EXT%20PIX.html

ARTICLES WRITTEN BY LYSTER H. DEWEY FOR THE USDA:

1901: USDA LYSTER DEWEY RE; HEMP & FLAX SEED http://www.hempology.org/ALL%20HISTO...YHEMPSEED.html

1901: USDA LYSTER DEWEY 13 PAGE ARTICLE ON HEMP http://www.hempology.org/ALL%20HISTO...EY13PAGES.html

1903: USDA LYSTER DEWEY RE; PRINCIPAL COMMERCIAL PLANT FIBERS http://www.hempology.org/ALL%20HISTO...WEYFIBERS.html

1910: USDA LYSTER DEWEY RE; HEMP CULTIVATION - CIRCULAR 57 http://www.hempology.org/ALL%20HISTO...ULAR%2057.html

1913: USDA LYSTER DEWEY RE; HEMP SOILS, YIELD, ECONOMICS http://www.hempology.org/ALL%20HISTO...ECONOMICS.html

1913: USDA LYSTER DEWEY RE; TESTS FOR HEMP, LIST OF PRODUCTS http://www.hempology.org/ALL%20HISTO...STSUMMARY.html

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 http://www.hempology.org/ALL%20HISTO...LLETIN404.html

1927: USDA LYSTER DEWEY RE; HEMP VARIETIES http://www.hempology.org/ALL%20HISTO...VARIETIES.html

1931: USDA LYSTER DEWEY RE; HEMP FIBER LOSING GROUND http://www.hempology.org/ALL%20HISTO...INGGROUND.html



WORLD WAR II's HEMP FOR VICTORY CAMPAIGN:

MASTER IMAGE AND ARTICLE INDEX FROM MINNESOTA'S HEMP FOR VICTORY CAMPAIGN http://www.hempology.org/ALL%20HISTO...R%20INDEX.html

1942: TEXT OF USDA's HEMP FOR VICTORY FILM http://www.hempology.org/ALL%20HISTO...RY%20TEXT.html

1942: FARM JOURNAL & FARMER'S WIFE RE; WAR DEMANDS MORE HEMP http://www.hempology.org/ALL%20HISTO...SMOREHEMP.html

1943: ILL.AG.MAG. RE; HEMP FOR VICTORY IN http://www.hempology.org/ALL%20HISTO...43ILAGMAG.html

1943: POPULAR SCIENCE RE; ROPE WITHOUT DOPE (REEFER MADNESS AT WORK) http://www.hempology.org/ALL%20HISTO...OPEWODOPE.html

1943: KENTUCKY HEMP SEED PROJECT FOR 4-H CLUBS http://www.hempology.org/ALL%20HISTO...CKY4HCLUB.html

1955: HEMP INFO FROM TEXTILE TEXTBOOK http://www.hempology.org/ALL%20HISTO...LE%20INFO.html

2001: USE OF WWII POWs IN ILLINOIS HEMP FIELDS http://www.hempology.org/ALL%20HISTO...OIS%20POW.html

OTHER HEMP ITEMS OF INTEREST:

1642-1931: BOSTON HEMP REFERENCES WITH EXCERPTS http://www.hempology.org/ALL%20HISTO...MP%20REFS.html

1752: HEMP MILL IN BETHLEHEM PENNSYLVANIA http://www.hempology.org/ALL%20HISTO...EM%20TEXT.html

1763: JOHN ADAMS IN BOSTON EVENING POST http://www.hempology.org/ALL%20HISTO...N%20ADAMS.html

1770: BOSTON MASSACRE EXCERPTS AND PICTURES http://www.hempology.org/ALL%20HISTO...RE%20TEXT.html

1791: EARLY AMERICAN HEMP CULTIVATION http://www.hempology.org/ALL%20HISTO...AN%20HEMP.html

HEMP STATISTICS (IMPORTS, EXPORTS, ETC.) http://www.hempology.org/ALL%20HISTO...P%20STATS.html

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 http://www.hempology.org/MISC%20QUOT...%27FIELDS.html

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 http://www.hempology.org/ALL%20HISTO...ORTICATOR.html

1853-1862: MORMON HEMP HISTORY FROM JOURNALS OF DISCOURSE http://www.hempology.org/ALL%20HISTO...ON%20HEMP.html

1861: LEXINGTON MISSOURI'S CIVIL WAR BATTLE OF THE HEMP BALES http://www.hempology.org/ALL%20HISTO...LE%20TEXT.html

1862 HEMP AND FLAX GIN - ARTICLE AND IMAGE http://www.hempology.org/DECORTICATO...EMP%20GIN.html

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 http://www.hempology.org/ALL%20HISTO...YCLOPEDIA.html

1918: WISCONSIN'S HEMP INDUSTRY - BULLETIN 293 http://www.hempology.org/ALL%20HISTO...%20BUL293.html

INFO ABOUT THE 1ST AMERICAN ARRESTED FOR MARIJUANA
1937: 1ST AMERICAN ARRESTED INDEX http://www.hempology.org/ALL%20HISTO...T%20INDEX.html

1941: INFO ABOUT & VIDEO LINK TO HENRY FORD'S HEMP CAR http://www.hempology.org/ALL%20HISTO...EMP%20CAR.html

1944: ARTICLE ON VAT RETTING OF HEMP http://www.hempology.org/ALL%20HISTO...U_WISC_AG.html

1961: HARRY J. ANSLINGER ON MARIJUANA http://www.hempology.org/ALL%20HISTO...MURDERERS.html

1969: HEMP - THE WORLD'S MAJOR FIBRE CROPS, THEIR CULTIVATION AND MANURING http://www.hempology.org/ALL%20HISTO...CROPSHEMP.html



HEMP POETRY, PROSE & MORE



LONGFELLOW'S "ROPEWALK" POEM
1859: LONGFELLOW'S ROPEWALK POEM http://www.hempology.org/POETRY%20PR...0ROPEWALK.html

THIS IS AN EXCERPT FROM A NOVEL WRITTEN IN 1900:
1900: J.ALLEN RE; A TALE OF THE KENTUCKY HEMP FIELDS http://www.hempology.org/ALL%20HISTO...900KYHEMP.html

HEMP POEM BY BETHLEHEM PENN. NATIVE STEPEN VINCENT BENET:
1918: HEMP POEM BY STEPHEN VICENT BENET http://www.hempology.org/ALL%20HISTO...ET%20POEM.html

A RECENTLY WRITTEN POEM SUMMARIZING HEMP'S SITUATION:
HEMP RAP BY JERI ROSE http://www.hempology.org/POETRY%20PR...P%20JROSE.html

TWO ESSAYS WRITTEN BY MINNESOTA'S FOREMOST HEMPOLOGIST:
1999: PUTTENHAM'S PURPLE PAWNEE PRINCESS http://www.hempology.org/POETRY%20PR...NEEPRNCES.html

1999: I HAD A DREAM BY CD PUTTENHAM http://www.hempology.org/POETRY%20PR...HADADREAM.html

"CURRENT" HISTORY:

2008: HEMP IN THE BRITISH ISLES http://www.hempology.org/CURRENT%20H...HUSBANDRY.html

1996: BAST FIBER APPLICATIONS FOR COMPOSITES http://www.hempology.org/CURRENT%20H...OMPOSITES.html

1996: DEA FERAL HEMP ERADICATION STATISTICS http://www.hempology.org/CURRENT%20H...ADICATION.html

2000: HEMP RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT BY AMERICAN EAGLE SEEDS http://www.hempology.org/CURRENT%20H...E%20SEEDS.html

2000: DEA INVADES AND DESTROYS SIOUX HEMP http://www.hempology.org/CURRENT%20H...S%20OCT13.html

2000: OGLALA SIOUX TRIBE PLANTS HEMP http://www.hempology.org/CURRENT%20H...NT%20HEMP.html

2004: GLOBALHEMP.COM - HEMP NEWS http://www.hempology.org/CURRENT%20H...P%20NEWS2.html


ARTICLES AND EDITORIALS WRITTEN BY JOHN E. DVORAK, HEMPOLOGIST:



HEMP HISTORY:

HEMP HISTORY IN NEW ENGLAND http://www.hempology.org/JD%27S%20ARTICLES/NEWENG.html

BOSTON'S HEMP HISTORY http://www.hempology.org/JD%27S%20AR.../BOSTHIST.html



CONFERENCE REVIEWS:

1996 CANNABIS CUP HEMP EXPO http://www.hempology.org/JD%27S%20AR...96CANNCUP.html

HEMP EXPO AT 1997 CANNABIS CUP http://www.hempology.org/JD%27S%20AR...97CANNCUP.html

1997 BIORESOURCE HEMP SYMPOSIUM REVIEW http://www.hempology.org/JD%27S%20AR...ORESOURCE.html



EDITORIALS:

THE HEMP CASINO http://www.hempology.org/JD%27S%20ARTICLES/CASINO.html

ROPE VS. DOPE: THE CANNABIS CONUNDRUM http://www.hempology.org/JD%27S%20ARTICLES/CANNCON.html

U.S.S. CONSTITUTION: WHERE'S THE HEMP? http://www.hempology.org/JD%27S%20ARTICLES/WTH.html

CLEAR CUTTING THE PROHIBITION TREE http://www.hempology.org/JD%27S%20AR...ROHIBTREE.html

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