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 HISTORY ARTICLES.HTML/1797;FRIGATES.html

1810: JOHN QUINCY ADAMS RE; RUSSIAN HEMP CULTIVATION: http://www.hempology.org/ALL HISTOR...SIONAL HEMP HTML/1810; JOHN QUINCY ADAMS.html

1827: U.S. NAVY COMMISSIONER RE; WATER-ROTTED HEMP: http://www.hempology.org/ALL HISTORY ARTICLES.HTML/1827;COMMISH.html

1837: DRAWBACK OF DUTIES ON HEMP (TEXT) http://www.hempology.org/ALL HISTORY ARTICLES.HTML/1837 HEMP DUTY DRAWBACK/1837 HEMP DUTY TEXT.html

1856: FLAX AND HEMP CULTURE IN RUSSIA http://www.hempology.org/ALL HISTORY ARTICLES.HTML/1856; HEMP AND FLAX IN RUSSIA

1873: HEMP CULTURE IN JAPAN http://www.hempology.org/ALL HISTORY ARTICLES.HTML/1873;JAPAN.html

1895: USDA RE; HEMP SEED http://www.hempology.org/ALL HISTORY ARTICLES.HTML/1895;HEMPSEED.html

1899: USDA SECRETARY RE; HEMP http://www.hempology.org/ALL HISTORY ARTICLES.HTML/1899;SECRETARY.html

1909: USDA SECRETARY FIBER INVESTIGATIONS RE; HEMP & FLAX http://www.hempology.org/ALL HISTORY ARTICLES.HTML/1909;SECRETARTY.html

1917: USDA HEMP SEED SUPPLY OF THE NATION http://www.hempology.org/ALL HISTORY ARTICLES.HTML/1917HEMPSEEDSUPPLY.html

1917: USDA RE; CANNABIS http://www.hempology.org/ALL HISTORY ARTICLES.HTML/1917;CANNABIS.html

1947: USDA RE; HEMP DAY LENGTH & FLOWERING http://www.hempology.org/ALL HISTORY ARTICLES.HTML/1947USDAFLOWERING.html

1956: USDA MONOECIOUS HEMP BREEDING IN THE U.S. http://www.hempology.org/ALL HISTORY ARTICLES.HTML/1956MONOECIUOSBREEDING.html

1970: USDA DRAWINGS AND DISTRIBUTION OF HEMP http://www.hempology.org/ALL HISTORY ARTICLES.HTML/1970 USDA WEEDS TEXT PIX.html

ARTICLES WRITTEN BY LYSTER H. DEWEY FOR THE USDA:

1901: USDA LYSTER DEWEY RE; HEMP & FLAX SEED http://www.hempology.org/ALL HISTORY ARTICLES.HTML/1901;LDEWEYHEMPSEED.html

1901: USDA LYSTER DEWEY 13 PAGE ARTICLE ON HEMP http://www.hempology.org/ALL HISTORY ARTICLES.HTML/1901;L.DEWEY13PAGES.html

1903: USDA LYSTER DEWEY RE; PRINCIPAL COMMERCIAL PLANT FIBERS http://www.hempology.org/ALL HISTORY ARTICLES.HTML/1903LDEWEYFIBERS.html

1910: USDA LYSTER DEWEY RE; HEMP CULTIVATION - CIRCULAR 57 http://www.hempology.org/ALL HISTORY ARTICLES.HTML/1910;LDEWEY CIRCULAR 57.html

1913: USDA LYSTER DEWEY RE; HEMP SOILS, YIELD, ECONOMICS http://www.hempology.org/ALL HISTORY ARTICLES.HTML/1913;LDEWEYECONOMICS.html

1913: USDA LYSTER DEWEY RE; TESTS FOR HEMP, LIST OF PRODUCTS http://www.hempology.org/ALL HISTORY ARTICLES.HTML/1913;LDEWEYTESTSUMMARY.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 HISTORY ARTICLES.HTML/1916BULLETIN404.html

1927: USDA LYSTER DEWEY RE; HEMP VARIETIES http://www.hempology.org/ALL HISTORY ARTICLES.HTML/1927DEWEYHEMPVARIETIES.html

1931: USDA LYSTER DEWEY RE; HEMP FIBER LOSING GROUND http://www.hempology.org/ALL HISTORY ARTICLES.HTML/1931DEWEYHEMPLOSINGGROUND.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 HISTOR...PLANT PIX HTML/HEMP4VICTORY MASTER INDEX.html

1942: TEXT OF USDA's HEMP FOR VICTORY FILM http://www.hempology.org/ALL HISTOR... VICTORY.HTML/1942 HEMP FOR VICTORY TEXT.html

1942: FARM JOURNAL & FARMER'S WIFE RE; WAR DEMANDS MORE HEMP http://www.hempology.org/ALL HISTOR... FOR VICTORY.HTML/1942WARDEMANDSMOREHEMP.html

1943: ILL.AG.MAG. RE; HEMP FOR VICTORY IN http://www.hempology.org/ALL HISTORY ARTICLES.HTML/1942-44 HEMP FOR VICTORY.HTML/1943ILAGMAG.html

1943: POPULAR SCIENCE RE; ROPE WITHOUT DOPE (REEFER MADNESS AT WORK) http://www.hempology.org/ALL HISTORY ARTICLES.HTML/1943POPSCIENCEROPEWODOPE.html

1943: KENTUCKY HEMP SEED PROJECT FOR 4-H CLUBS http://www.hempology.org/ALL HISTOR...HEMP FOR VICTORY.HTML/1943KENTUCKY4HCLUB.html

1955: HEMP INFO FROM TEXTILE TEXTBOOK http://www.hempology.org/ALL HISTORY ARTICLES.HTML/1955 HEMP TEXTILE INFO.html

2001: USE OF WWII POWs IN ILLINOIS HEMP FIELDS http://www.hempology.org/ALL HISTOR... VICTORY.HTML/2001 ROCKFORD ILLINOIS POW.html

OTHER HEMP ITEMS OF INTEREST:

1642-1931: BOSTON HEMP REFERENCES WITH EXCERPTS http://www.hempology.org/ALL HISTORY ARTICLES.HTML/1642-1931 BOSTON HEMP REFS.html

1752: HEMP MILL IN BETHLEHEM PENNSYLVANIA http://www.hempology.org/ALL HISTORY ARTICLES.HTML/1752 BETHLEHEM OIL MILL/BETHLEHEM TEXT.html

1763: JOHN ADAMS IN BOSTON EVENING POST http://www.hempology.org/ALL HISTORY ARTICLES.HTML/1763 JOHN ADAMS.html

1770: BOSTON MASSACRE EXCERPTS AND PICTURES http://www.hempology.org/ALL HISTOR... MASSACRE HTML/1770 BOSTON MASSACRE TEXT.html

1791: EARLY AMERICAN HEMP CULTIVATION http://www.hempology.org/ALL HISTORY ARTICLES.HTML/1791 EARLY AMERICAN HEMP.html

HEMP STATISTICS (IMPORTS, EXPORTS, ETC.) http://www.hempology.org/ALL HISTORY ARTICLES.HTML/1849 on - HEMP STATS.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 QUOTES/ECO'FIELDS.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 HISTORY ARTICLES.HTML/1828; STATS DECORTICATOR.html

1853-1862: MORMON HEMP HISTORY FROM JOURNALS OF DISCOURSE http://www.hempology.org/ALL HISTORY ARTICLES.HTML/1853-1862; MORMON HEMP.html

1861: LEXINGTON MISSOURI'S CIVIL WAR BATTLE OF THE HEMP BALES http://www.hempology.org/ALL HISTORY ARTICLES.HTML/1861 BATTLE OF THE HEMP BALES/HEMP BALE TEXT.html

1862 HEMP AND FLAX GIN - ARTICLE AND IMAGE http://www.hempology.org/DECORTICATORS/1862 FLAX AND HEMP GIN.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 HISTORY ARTICLES.HTML/1907;AGCYCLOPEDIA.html

1918: WISCONSIN'S HEMP INDUSTRY - BULLETIN 293 http://www.hempology.org/ALL HISTORY ARTICLES.HTML/1918;WISCONSIN HEMP BUL293.html

INFO ABOUT THE 1ST AMERICAN ARRESTED FOR MARIJUANA
1937: 1ST AMERICAN ARRESTED INDEX http://www.hempology.org/ALL HISTOR...LDWELL ARREST/1937 FIRST MJ ARREST INDEX.html

1941: INFO ABOUT & VIDEO LINK TO HENRY FORD'S HEMP CAR http://www.hempology.org/ALL HISTORY ARTICLES.HTML/1941 HENRY FORD'S HEMP CAR.html

1944: ARTICLE ON VAT RETTING OF HEMP http://www.hempology.org/ALL HISTORY ARTICLES.HTML/1944_VAT_RETTING_U_WISC_AG.html

1961: HARRY J. ANSLINGER ON MARIJUANA http://www.hempology.org/ALL HISTORY ARTICLES.HTML/1961; ANSLINGER MURDERERS.html

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



HEMP POETRY, PROSE & MORE



LONGFELLOW'S "ROPEWALK" POEM
1859: LONGFELLOW'S ROPEWALK POEM http://www.hempology.org/POETRY PROSE/1859;LONGFELLOW'S ROPEWALK.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 HISTORY ARTICLES.HTML/1900KYHEMP.html

HEMP POEM BY BETHLEHEM PENN. NATIVE STEPEN VINCENT BENET:
1918: HEMP POEM BY STEPHEN VICENT BENET http://www.hempology.org/ALL HISTORY ARTICLES.HTML/1918; STEPHEN V BENET POEM.html

A RECENTLY WRITTEN POEM SUMMARIZING HEMP'S SITUATION:
HEMP RAP BY JERI ROSE http://www.hempology.org/POETRY PROSE/1999; HEMP RAP JROSE.html

TWO ESSAYS WRITTEN BY MINNESOTA'S FOREMOST HEMPOLOGIST:
1999: PUTTENHAM'S PURPLE PAWNEE PRINCESS http://www.hempology.org/POETRY PROSE/1999;PITMNPRPLPAWNEEPRNCES.html

1999: I HAD A DREAM BY CD PUTTENHAM http://www.hempology.org/POETRY PROSE/1999;PITMANHADADREAM.html

"CURRENT" HISTORY:

2008: HEMP IN THE BRITISH ISLES http://www.hempology.org/CURRENT HISTORY/HEMPHUSBANDRY.html

1996: BAST FIBER APPLICATIONS FOR COMPOSITES http://www.hempology.org/CURRENT HISTORY/1996 HEMP COMPOSITES.html

1996: DEA FERAL HEMP ERADICATION STATISTICS http://www.hempology.org/CURRENT HISTORY/1996 DEARADICATION.html

2000: HEMP RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT BY AMERICAN EAGLE SEEDS http://www.hempology.org/CURRENT HISTORY/2000;PUTNAM AM EAGLE SEEDS.html

2000: DEA INVADES AND DESTROYS SIOUX HEMP http://www.hempology.org/CURRENT HISTORY/SIOUX HEMP ARTICLE & PIX HTML/2000 DEA INVADES OCT13.html

2000: OGLALA SIOUX TRIBE PLANTS HEMP http://www.hempology.org/CURRENT HISTORY/SIOUX HEMP ARTICLE & PIX HTML/2000;SIOUX PLANT HEMP.html

2004: GLOBALHEMP.COM - HEMP NEWS http://www.hempology.org/CURRENT HISTORY/GLOBAL HEMP NEWS2.html


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



HEMP HISTORY:

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

BOSTON'S HEMP HISTORY http://www.hempology.org/JD'S ARTICLES/BOSTHIST.html



CONFERENCE REVIEWS:

1996 CANNABIS CUP HEMP EXPO http://www.hempology.org/JD'S ARTICLES/96CANNCUP.html

HEMP EXPO AT 1997 CANNABIS CUP http://www.hempology.org/JD'S ARTICLES/97CANNCUP.html

1997 BIORESOURCE HEMP SYMPOSIUM REVIEW http://www.hempology.org/JD'S ARTICLES/BIORESOURCE.html



EDITORIALS:

THE HEMP CASINO http://www.hempology.org/JD'S ARTICLES/CASINO.html

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

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

CLEAR CUTTING THE PROHIBITION TREE http://www.hempology.org/JD'S ARTICLES/PROHIBTREE.html