By Robert Deitch
Who positioned the Hemp in Hempstead? prior to the cotton gin, hemp used to be an important uncooked fabric valued for its fiber and oil, as a gasoline and a drugs. This colourful socio-economic background clears the smoke obscuring hemp's function in battles among Britain and the colonies, the North and South, the haves and have-nots, and the marijuana foyer and their foes. Deitch deals a glance at significant occasions in US and global historical past as they inspired, and as they might were stimulated by means of, the cultivation and use of hemp.
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Washington’s Diary Notes, Library of Congress (Volume 33, page 270). 21. , 1925. 25 Hemp — American History Revisited Like all farmers, Washington probably sampled the quality and potency of what he grew, and he may have used this hemp to treat his chronic tooth aches. Jefferson (also a hemp farmer) noted in his diary that he smoked hemp for relief from migraine headaches. Actually, it was a common practice for colonial Americans to smoke Cannabis, of varying degrees of potency, in lieu of tobacco, for recreational and for medicinal purposes, and the practice probably lasted until well after the Civil War.
The Americans: The Colonial Experience. Vintage Books, New York: 1958, p. 77-78. 16. Schlesinger, Arthur M. Jr. The Almanac of American History. Barnes & Noble Books, Greenwich, CT: 1993, p. 73 & 76. 19 Hemp — American History Revisited perity. Colonial America was an agrarian society, with 95% of the population involved in farming. But agrarian societies historically do not produce widespread wealth and prosperity. A cash crop like tobacco can produce prosperity; but far from all colonial farmers were producing tobacco and, although smoking quickly became fashionable, not enough people were smoking to account for the prosperity that existed in the colonies.
Their relatively wealthy America cousins were still restricted from selling or shipping hemp either as a raw material or as naval stores to anyone but the British, but the colonies were using most of their hemp domestically, anyway. On the other hand, the British Crown had invested a great deal of time, effort, and money colonizing and protecting America and they expected a return on their investment, which is why the British began imposing taxes on commodities like sugar, stamps, and tea that the colonists used every day.