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Hemp Horizons Again: US Farm Bill Hails New Industry
George Washington's Hemp Notes
With
this week’s widely reported passage of the hemp amendment to the US Farm Bill
(Forbes, USA Today), Bryan W. Brickner, publisher of The Cannabis Papers: A
citizen’s guide to cannabinoids (2011), points to our founding and the likes of
George Washington (a noted hemp farmer) as the future of cannabis sativa begins
to unfold (again) in the United States.
Numerous farm states and
the US federal government are pursuing new approaches to hemp: Illinois and Michigan
have hemp bills pending in their legislatures; on Thursday, an Indiana Senate
committee passed an industrial hemp bill; and in federal news, noted on
Cannabis Culture as, US Farm Bill Allows Hemp Farming … in 10 States.
“Hemp’s not new to America,” noted Brickner, “as
George Washington grew hemp in 1765 with a harvest of 5000 pounds of
fiber and approximately 80 to 100 gallons of hemp oil from seeds.”
“China
is today’s world leader in hemp,” Brickner closed, “and that’s okay I suppose;
we don’t have to be is what I mean. American’s farming hemp again is the point
– and it’s a growing industry.”
Brickner has a 1997 political
science doctorate from Purdue University and is the author of several political
theory books, to include The Promise Keepers (1999), Article the first of the
Bill of Rights (2006), and The Book of the Is (2013).
Essay #11, "Washington's Hemp Seed Love," and the rest of The Cannabis Papers is available at online retailers and for
free by download.
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