Where the America's Founding Fathers Pot Heads?
bob
2012/05/25 16:09:40
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Kyra 2012/05/25 16:26:52
who used it for ropes for all uses, and burlap bags to bale cotton, slave clothes etc. . It was also used to make paper, and was a staple on all small farms until it was outlawed in the USA in the 1930's. and was heavily promoted by Thomas Jefferson, for example, a founding father...
"The great voyagers of the Age of Discovery relied on ropes and sails woven from hemp fibers to rig their ships. Once used, the sails were recycled and sold as rags to the paper manufacturers. The newspapers and pamphlets made from this paper fueled the democratic revolutions of the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries. Without hemp these revolutions might never have occurred. The same conclusions also apply to the evolution of capitalism and the pre-1870 phase of the Industrial Revolution. Both events relied on hemp as a source of canvas and rope for the rigging of trading vessels and as a source of paper for accounting ledgers, business contracts, and routine correspondence.[28]
In America, hemp was an agricultural staple from the very beginning. The Founding Fathers knew the value of hemp. Both Thomas Jefferson and George Washington cultivated hemp and wrote about its benefits. By 1810, hemp was America’s third largest agricultural commodity. Hemp fiber was in high demand among the producers of ropes and twines, linens and canvases, and even of paper. This demand led to the development of a strong industry in Kentucky, but like the other cash crops of pre-Civil War America, the Kentu...
"The great voyagers of the Age of Discovery relied on ropes and sails woven from hemp fibers to rig their ships. Once used, the sails were recycled and sold as rags to the paper manufacturers. The newspapers and pamphlets made from this paper fueled the democratic revolutions of the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries. Without hemp these revolutions might never have occurred. The same conclusions also apply to the evolution of capitalism and the pre-1870 phase of the Industrial Revolution. Both events relied on hemp as a source of canvas and rope for the rigging of trading vessels and as a source of paper for accounting ledgers, business contracts, and routine correspondence.[28]
In America, hemp was an agricultural staple from the very beginning. The Founding Fathers knew the value of hemp. Both Thomas Jefferson and George Washington cultivated hemp and wrote about its benefits. By 1810, hemp was America’s third largest agricultural commodity. Hemp fiber was in high demand among the producers of ropes and twines, linens and canvases, and even of paper. This demand led to the development of a strong industry in Kentucky, but like the other cash crops of pre-Civil War America, the Kentucky hemp industry was part of the Southern slave economy. Following the Civil War, the institution of slavery disappeared and the hemp industry was forced to pay for its labor..."
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I found history, as taught in school, confusing and incomplete, so I dig out the rest of the story if I can.
Without a good understanding of our economic history the rest makes no real sense;. For example, the US Civil War had 3 sides not two, the Midwest, the northeast, and the south. Lincoln was from the Midwest (free soilers) allied with the surviving rump of the northeastern Federalists, to make the new Republican Party.
The Midwest was far friendlier to the South than the Northeast, and had strong economic ties also. Slavery, the economics of slavery and the Souths insistence on pushing the slave system into the rest of the country, was all that made the Midwest the Souths enemy.
The Dred Scott decision ensured war.
By coincidence, the killing of Lincoln near the end of the war was the worst possible result for the South and Midwest. It put the Northeast in control able to impose their harsh peace terms and ensure their economic domination of the west and south.
, It was very lucky for the old money Federalists that Booth and the Confederate conspiracy to kill Lincoln happened on it's own, saving their fortunes and ensuring new ones.
But who cares today? Just me trying to understand the truth.
I don't want to be around pot smokers whether it is legal or illegal, but it should in no way be illegal.
Pot has medicinal properties, especially hemp oil, which can reverse cancer.
Don't smoke and drive!!
Yes, Founding Fathers smoked peace pipe