George Washington and Thomas Jefferson grew cannabis on their plantations. (Herndon, G.M., Hemp in Colonial Virginia, 1963 The Chesapeake Colonies, 1954 L.A. You could even be jailed in America for not growing cannabis during several periods of shortage, e.g., in Virginia between 17. You could pay your taxes with cannabis hemp throughout America for over 200 years.2 Why? To encourage American farmers to grow more.1
More mandatory (must-grow) hemp cultivation laws were enacted in Massachusetts in 1631, in Connecticut in 1632 and in the Chesapeake Colonies into the mid-1700s.Įven in England, the much-sought-after prize of full British citizenship was bestowed by a decree of the crown on foreigners who would grow cannabis, and fines were often levied against those who refused.Ĭannabis hemp was legal tender (money) in most of the Americas from 1631 until the early 1800s. In 1619, America’s first marijuana law was enacted at Jamestown Colony, Virginia, “ordering” all farmers to “make tryal of “(grow) Indian hempseed. HEMPstead, Long Island HEMPstead County, Arkansas HEMPstead, Texas HEMPhill, North Carolina, HEMPfield, Pennsylvania, among others, were named after cannabis growing regions, or after family names derived from hemp growing. However, any encyclopedia (no matter how old) or good dictionary will do for general verification purposes.Īlso known as: Hemp, cannabis hemp, Indian (India) hemp, true hemp, muggles, weed, pot, spinach, marijuana, reefer, grass, ganja, bhang, the kind, dagga, herb, etc., all names for exactly the same plant! The facts cited herein are generally verifiable in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, which was printed primarily on paper produced with cannabis hemp for over 150 years. Reproductions of selected critical source materials are incorporated into the body of the text or included in the appendices. Numbered footnotes are at the end of each chapter. For brevity, other sources for facts, anecdotes, histories, studies, etc., are cited in the body of the text. Explanations or documentations marked with an asterisk (*) are listed at the end of the related paragraph(s).
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