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1619
Hemp cultivation played a crucial role in the early days of settling Jamestown, Virginia. It produced necessary materials used in everyday life (rope, cloth, paper, etc.) Bibles and maps were printed on hemp. Lamp oil was derived from pressed hemp seeds. One single ship in the British naval fleet required 120,000 pounds of hemp fiber, and as a result, the British Crown made farming hemp mandatory for settlers in Jamestown. Each farm cultivated at least one acre of hemp. Farmers who didn’t comply would be fined or jailed.
1760s
George Washington predicted that hemp would become more profitable than tobacco. He grew New Zealand, West Indies, and American hemp on the 5 farms comprising his Mount Vernon plantation. Washington grew hemp plentifully to utilize its strong fibers to make rope and canvas for his large-scale fishing operation on the Potomac River. Currently, George Washington’s Mount Vernon historical site grows 4 acres of hemp and harvests every summer to demonstrate Washington’s role as an entrepreneurial farmer. During Washington’s presidency, hemp was used to pay taxes because of its inherent value in the New World.
1770s
Benjamin Franklin established the first commercial cannabis operation with his large hemp mill that converted cannabis fibers into paper. This mill enabled the settlers to gain freedom from a reliance on Britain for the product. Hemp paper produced at his mill was used to print Common Sense by Thomas Paine, a manifesto that incited the colonists to protest. He often wrote about the importance of hemp in his newspaper, The Pennsylvania Gazette.
1797
John Adams believed that hemp was a critical component for the health of a young nation. As president, he wrote newspaper columns that advocated farming hemp for its many practical uses.
1801
As our 3rd president, Thomas Jefferson played a critical role in the advancement of hemp production. His invention of a hemp threshing machine received the first United States patent (although, as Secretary of State, he oversaw the development of the Patent Act and its guidelines). Jefferson diversified hemp phenotypes by smuggling new strains from China into the colonies and believed firmly that “Hemp is of first necessity to the wealth and protection of the country.”
1809
Our 4th president, James Madison, known as “The Father of the Constitution” farmed hemp at Montpelier, a 5,000-acre plantation that he inherited from his father, a longtime tobacco farmer.
1917
A decorticating machine was invented by George W. Schlichten as an economical solution to drive down labor costs associated with hemp production. The machine enabled use of 95 percent of the hemp stalk, 3 times the amount used previously for hemp textile and paper production. An acre of hemp could produce 5 times more paper than an acre of trees. Hemp became an affordable, sustainable paper source. At the height of World War 1, what could be more patriotic than preserving our precious natural resources?
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Tiberius Julius Alexander (fl. 1st century) was an equestrian governor and general in the Roman Empire. Born into a wealthy Jewish family of Alexandria but abandoning or neglecting the Jewish religion, he rose to become the 2nd procurator of Judea (c. 46 – 48) under Claudius.
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