PBS: Why Kentucky farmers are quitting tobacco and turning to hemp

[nationalize the fed]

Published on Oct 17, 2015 by PBS.org

A Farm Bill passed by Congress last year included an amendment granting states and universities the right to research hemp. Several states have since started research projects, but Kentucky is at the forefront, experimenting with creating a new industry around this plant. NewsHour's Christopher Booker reports.

View the Full Story/Transcript http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/kentucky-farmers-quitting-tobacco-turning-unlikely-new-crop/

also from PBS: 8 things you didn’t know about hemp

Carey Reed October 17, 2015


Tim Gordon, left, and Hunter Konchan, both of CBDRx, harvest hemp from the companies farm in Longmont, October 08, 2015. CBDRx Natural Healing is an organic hemp farm. Photo by RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post via Getty Images

2. Natives of a small island off the coast of China may have been the first to use hemp.

Archaeologists found pottery bearing impressions of cannabis cord, while unearthing a Stone Age Taiwanese village, according to the 1980 book, “Marihuana: The First Twelve Thousand Years” by Ernest L. Abel.

On mainland China during Second Century B.C., people made clothes from hemp.

And hemp’s use as a cloth for swaddling infants and covering the bodies of the dead was mentioned in the sacred Confucian texts known as the “Book of Rites”.

3. Common household items can be made with hemp, from birdseed to ice cream...snip

4. In the 1600s, property owners in North America had to grow hemp.

By way of a royal decree, King James I required every property owner in Jamestown to grow 100 plants of hemp for export in 1619, according to “Hemp: American History Revisited: The Plant with a Divided History” by Robert Deitch...
Full Article: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/8-things-didnt-know-hemp/



The man that gave Hemp back to America and the World

Jack Herer, the Emperor of Hemp
June 18, 1939-April 15, 2010

[Jesus Malverde]

1. One day...

We'll live free and no longer in fear. Fear of losing jobs, fear of being raided, your dogs shot, your children kidnapped by the state. Your land stolen, and maybe even your life lost. Fear no more, the times are a changing.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

2. There is a notion in DC that weed is a "hippie thing" and they LOVE to play "Kick the Hippie"....

Apart from the whole bit with rope for the navy back during the days of clipper ships....

[Bohunk68]

3. Everything I have read about hemp indicates that it was grown long

before the 2nd Century BC in the article. The history that I have seen indicates that the Phoenicians used hemp to make the sails for their ships. It was known as cannabis, from which comes the word, "canvas." That is my understanding.

[packman]

4. A long time ago I read that Kentucky Hemp

was grown as a war material - for stuffing in life vests - for the navy during WWII.

[nationalize the fed]

5. And other things- shoelaces...

and more. The Feds said this movie didn't exist, then Jack and friends found it in an archive. Lie after lie after lie after lie. When have the Feds told the truth?

Hemp For Victory (1942)

Hemp For Victory is a 1942 film documentary made to encourage farmers to grow hemp during World War 2 because other industrial fibers, often imported from overseas, were in short supply. The film shows a history of hemp and hemp products, how hemp is grown, and how hemp is processed into rope, cloth, cordage, and other products.

Credits -

Narrator - Lee D. Vickers
Music - Reuben Ford
Camera - Walter K. Scott
Directed by Raymond Evans
Written by Brittain B. Robinson
Produced by the U.S. Department of Agriculture