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Hemp Line 8000-1825 1861 -1910 1915-1935 1970-2000 2000-2006
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Time Line of Hemp Noted Event’s,1937 - 1968 |
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1937 |
Congress Passes “Marijuana Tax Act”- Objections by the AMA & National Oil Seed Institute or rejected, AMA realized that “Marijuana” was in fact Cannabis or Hemp two days before the tax act goes into effect. |
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1937 |
Henry Anslinger had testified to Congress that "Marijuana is the most violence causing drug in the history of mankind." |
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Mechanical Engineering 1937 – “HEMP & FLAX THE MOST PROFITABLE CROPS – FROM THE SEED TO THE LOOM” |
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1938 |
Popular Mechanics February 1938 – “NEW BILLION DOLLAR CROP” International Harvester Equipment To Revolutinize & Lower Cost of Commercial US Hemp Farming. |
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1938 |
Enos Scheaffer,81 ,arrested in Lancaster, Pennsylvania for growing hemp, quoted that he was growing seed for his chickens. |
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1938-42 |
The Japanese invade the Philippine's and cut off our Manila (Abaca) hemp supply. USDA Produces Film – HEMP FOR VICTORY! |
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1942 |
The U. S. government distributes 400,000 lb.. (pounds) of cannabis hemp seed to American farmers from Wisconsin to Kentucky |
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| 1942 |
American farmers produced 42,000 tons of hemp fiber per year. Plant 36,000 acres of seed hemp, an increase of several thousand percent from previous years. |
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1943 |
Colonel J.M. Phalen, editor of the *Military Surgeon*, declares in an editorial entitled "The Marijuana Bugaboo": "The smoking of the leaves, flowers, and seeds of Cannabis sativa is no more harmful than the smoking of tobacco. . . . It is hoped that no witch hunt will be instituted in the military service over a problem that does not exist." [Quoted in ibid. p. 234] |
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1944 |
New York Mayor LaGuardia's Marijuana Commission concludes that there is no link between cannabis and violence, instead citing beneficial effects of marijuana. Harry Anslinger goes berserk, denouncing Mayor LaGuardia and threatening doctors with prison terms should they dare to carry out independent research on cannabis |
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1947 |
The Yearbook of Agriculture; 1943-1947, USDA Author: H.A. Borthwick, USDA Senior Botanist in the Bureau of Plant Industry, Soils, and Agricultural Engineering Pages: 282-283 DAY LENGTH AND FLOWERING – HEMP “New practices that can be used in breeding hemp have resulted from recent photoperiodic studies”……*excerpt – “a locality can be found in which the conditions are favorable to the formation of these intersex male flowers on female plants in sufficient quantity that a good crop of seed could be obtained.“ |
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Harry Anslinger testifies before a red-baiting Congress that marijuana causes users to become peaceful, pacifistic "zombies." Anslinger warned that the Communists might use marijuana to weaken the fighting spirit of American troops during wartime. This was a complete reversal of earlier testimony; in 1937 |
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1956
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Fibres (Engineering and Chemistry) Author: Carl V. Feaster, Agronomist, Field Crops Research Branch, Ag Research Service, USDA “MONOECIOUS HEMP BREEDING IN THE UNITED STATES”The hemp breeding programme in the United States is being directed toward improvement of fibre quality through the development of strains with uniform maturity among plants. Present commercial varieties are dioecious, with the male plants returning about three weeks before the female plants. This results in fibre of different maturity and consequently less uniformity |
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1961 |
UN treaty allows for the cultivation of industrial hemp. |
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1964 |
Dr. Raphael Mechoulam of the University of Tel Aviv isolates THC Delta-9, the primary active ingredient in cannabis -- and one of at least 60 compounds found in cannabis that have therapeutic value |
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1968 |
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Time Line of Hemp Noted Event’s,1861 B.C.-1910 |
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1861 |
{footnote] – Lexington KY – Battle of the Hempfields – Civil War Excerpt: There are many claimants for the credit of having first suggested the hemp-bale strategy. General Harris's official report says: "I directed the bales to be wet in the river to protect them against the casualties of fire of our troops and of the enemy, but it was soon found that the wetting so materially increased the weight as to prevent our men, in their exhausted condition, from rolling it to the crest of the hill. I then adopted the idea of wetting the hemp after it had been transported to its position…. |
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October 8, 1862
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MORMON HEMP HISTORY Journal of Discourses Volume 10,pg 121 George Albert Smith I hope that all that has been said by the brethren in reference to the culture of hemp, flax, indigo, and in fact all that will tend to build up Zion will be attended to, for let it be remembered that it is coming to this necessity of producing for ourselves or go without, and the question resolves itself in to the simple proposition, "Clothes or no clothes." We must make our own woolen, flax, hemp and cotton good or we must go naked. We cannot get these articles much longer from the States, according to the present prospect. The vengeance of the Almighty is sweeping the land with the besom of destruction; millions of men are forsaking their industrial pursuits for the purpose of destroying each other. Let us each and all attend to this, that the beauty of our garments may be the beauty of the workmanship of our own hands, or we shall find ourselves without many of the necessaries of life altogether. |
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1870 |
Lancaster County Pennsylvania Reports 230 tons of hemp still grown in Lancaster County Pennsylvania |
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1842-96 |
Several [varieties of hemp] are grown in this country, that cultivated in Kentucky and having a hollow stem, being the most common. China hemp, with slender stems, growing very erect, has a wide range of culture. Smyrna hemp is adapted to cultivation over a still wider range and Japanese hemp is beginning to be cultivated, particularly in California, where it reaches a height of 15 feet. Russian and Italian seed have been experimented with, but the former produces a short stalk, while the latter only grows to a medium height. A small quantity of Piedmontese hemp seed from Italy was distributed by the Department in 1893, having been received through the Chicago Exposition...." Dodge, C. A. 1896. A report on the culture of hemp and jute in the United States. USDA Office of Fiber Investigations Report No. 8. p.7. |
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1890 |
There is a reasonable prospect of establishing an extensive hemp industry in the United States on new lines, involving the use of either a taller variety or two crops of the short variety, growing the crop on large areas of cheap land, plowing deep, putting on the necessary fertilizers, reaping and breaking by machinery, and using the process of water retting :REPORT OF THE SECRETARY - HEMP James Wilson, Secretary Dept of Agriculture End of page 64 |
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1891 |
A variety of cannabis and hashish extracts were the first, second, and third most prescribed medicines in the United States. |
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1891 |
W. H. Holmes an ethnologist for the Smithsonian Institute recovers a large piece of hemp fabric buried with a man at an archeological dig in Morgan County, TENNESSE. |
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1892 |
Rudolph Diesel invented diesel engine intended to specifically run on vegetable & seed oils. |
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1894 |
The Report of the Indian Hemp Drug Commission, running to over three thousand pages in seven volumes, is published. This inquiry, commissioned by the British government, concluded: "There is no evidence of any weight regarding the mental and moral injuries from the moderate use of these drugs. .. . . Moderation does not lead to excess in hemp any more than it does in alcohol. Regular, moderate use of ganja or bhang produces the same effects as moderate and regular doses of whiskey." The commission's proposal to tax bhang is never put into effect, in part, perhaps, because one of the commissioners, an Indian, cautions that Moslem law and Hindu custom forbid"taxing anything that gives pleasure to the poor." |
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1896 |
USDA – 1895-1896 Yearbook US Dept of Ag - Author: Gilbert H. Hicks; Asst, Div. of Botany, USDA End of Pgs 198 -,Hemp notwithstanding its oily content, loses its germinative power quickly, usually by the end of one year; hence only fresh seed should be sown. Neither cracked nor dull-looking seed will germinate well. Hemp culture in America is mostly confined to Kentucky and Missouri, principally the former State. The value of hemp for fiber, birdseed, and oil would seem to make its cultivation a very profitable one. |
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1902 |
"In Nebraska, where the [hemp] industry is being established, a new and important step has been taken in cutting the crop with an ordinary mowing machine. A simple attachment which bends the stalks over in the direction in which the machine is going facilitates the cutting... The cost of cutting hemp in this manner is 50 cents per acre, as compared with $3 to $4 per acre, the rates paid for cutting by hand in Kentucky." USDA. 1902. Yearbook of Agrt. p. 23. |
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1905 |
"The most important fact to be recorded in connection with the hemp industry during the past year is the successful operation of a machine brake in the fields of Kentucky. This machine breaks the retted stalks and cleans the fiber, producing clean, straight fiber equal to the best grades prepared on hand brakes, and it has a capacity of 1000 pounds or more of clean fiber per hour. So far as we have any record, this is the first machine having sufficient capacity to be commercially practical that has cleaned bast fiber in an entirely satisfactory manner." USDA. 1905 Report of Office of Fiber Investigations. Bureau of Plant Industry. p. 145. |
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1910 |
FIBER INVESTIGATIONS - HEMP & FLAX 1909 Yearbook of the US Dept of Agriculture Many plant fibers and many questions pertaining to fiber production have been investigated during the past year, but attention has been directed especially to hemp and flax, which, aside from cotton, are regarded as the most promising fiber-producing plants for this country. |
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