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Showing Original Post only (View all)Thomas Jefferson Supported Hemp Farming [View all]
Thomas Jefferson wrote this journal entry at his home at Monticello in Virginia on December 29, 1815, Flax is so injurious to our lands, and so scanty produce, that I have never attempted (using) it. Hemp, on the other hand, is abundantly productive and will grow forever on the same spot. Both he and George Washington advised their countrymen to use hemp for lamp oil and uniform and clothing fabric. Jefferson found it cheaper than cotton cloth and clothed his laborers in hemp. George Washington was said to be more familiar with the plant as a drug. No one knows his reason for saying, Make the most of the hemp seed, sow it everywhere.
http://www.hemp.com/2013/01/hemp-the-us-illegal-super-crop/jefferson_hemp/
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No, we should find a more contemporary, less controversial poster child. nt
Dreamer Tatum
Jan 2013
#7
Wow. Wonder how many times that thing got pulled over by the police across country.
JaneyVee
Jan 2013
#30