Tango01 | 19 Dec 2018 9:43 p.m. PST |
"Throughout his lifetime, George Washington cultivated hemp at Mount Vernon for industrial uses. The fibers from hemp held excellent properties for making rope and sail canvas. In addition, hemp fibers could be spun into thread for clothing or, as indicated in Mount Vernon records, used in repairing the large seine nets Washington used in his fishing operation along the Potomac. At one point in the 1760's Washington considered whether hemp would be a more lucrative cash crop than tobacco but determined wheat was a better alternative….." Main page link Amicalement Armand
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Rudysnelson | 20 Dec 2018 8:32 a.m. PST |
I would not be surprised if he did. Hemp was a main plant used to make rope until the used of plastic composites. It is a well known fact that hemp was used extensively in WW2 and Korea. When I was at Fort Riley in 1975, there was hundreds of acres of hemp still growing wild. We were conducting an excercises and a smoke grenade started a fire in a large field of it. Almost a dozen guys had to be sent to the hospital and the excercises terminated. We were actually strip searched when we got back to the barracks. LOL. By the time I was at Fort Riley again in 1981, the size of the wild hemp fields had been reduced but not cleaned out completely. |
Tango01 | 20 Dec 2018 11:02 a.m. PST |
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Mkultra99 | 20 Dec 2018 11:36 a.m. PST |
It's interesting that he even called it "Indian Hemp" and that he mentions its use as medicine. |
42flanker | 20 Dec 2018 12:23 p.m. PST |
The question, surely, is not whether he grew it but whether he inhaled. |
Winston Smith | 20 Dec 2018 1:42 p.m. PST |
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Andrew Walters | 20 Dec 2018 2:03 p.m. PST |
Hemp is not marijuana. Marijuana has 30 times the THC, even more in some varieties. You can't get high smoking hemp. Everybody grew hemp for utilitarian purposes. You don't hop down to Target for some some twine, you send the slaves to hack down some hemp and twist you up some twine. And you use twine for everything, since there's no duct tape. Hemp is in the same family as marijuana, so every time someone mentions "hemp" it's all" wink, wink, nudge, nudge, know what I mean?" but that's just garden variety ignorance. |
42flanker | 20 Dec 2018 2:06 p.m. PST |
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Aethelflaeda was framed | 20 Dec 2018 3:32 p.m. PST |
Hemp IS marijuana. There are many strains of Cannabis sativa, industrial hemp is just a low THC variety. It isn't bubba kush or blue dream but it certainly is marijuana and although not an efficient source for THC it has some. |
42flanker | 20 Dec 2018 4:45 p.m. PST |
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Andrew Walters | 20 Dec 2018 6:10 p.m. PST |
I read that Marijuana and Hemp are the two strains of Cannabis Sativa. They look quite different. They are certainly related, but they are certainly not the same plant. |
42flanker | 21 Dec 2018 12:14 a.m. PST |
'Hemp vs Marijuana The Difference Between Hemp and Marijuana' Are Hemp and Marijuana the Same? Short Answer: No, they are just both part of the Cannabis family link " Your lungs will fail before your brain attains any high from smoking industrial hemp" |
Timbo W | 21 Dec 2018 3:20 a.m. PST |
Used for match cord in the Renaissance as well |
Major Bloodnok | 21 Dec 2018 3:40 a.m. PST |
In the 1600s hemp was also the preferred fibre for sewing shoes together rather than flax. |
Winston Smith | 21 Dec 2018 3:45 a.m. PST |
Let's throw hops into the pot too. link |
Garde de Paris | 21 Dec 2018 11:03 a.m. PST |
Where do we get some hemp plants for our 6mm figures? GdeP |
Tango01 | 21 Dec 2018 12:00 p.m. PST |
Ha-Ha-Ha….! Amicalement Armand
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Bill N | 21 Dec 2018 8:50 p.m. PST |
I think we are looking at this backwards. It isn't a question of whether today's hemp can be used for "recreational purposes", but rather is whether in the 18th century pot or its predecessor was in colonial America and was being used as another form of hemp. |
Aethelflaeda was framed | 23 Dec 2018 12:34 p.m. PST |
It was smoked too, I read somewhere about it being "the farmers field break" in the 19th century. It was not seen a problem until the end of Prohibition and the feds needed a new devil intoxicant to fight. |
42flanker | 23 Dec 2018 11:28 p.m. PST |
" Your lungs will fail before your brain attains any high from smoking industrial hemp" See above. |