A History of Hemp
20th Century Hemp
1938: a Popular Mechanics article states: “American farmers are promised a new cash crop… a machine has been invented that solves a problem more than 6000 years old… designed for removing the fiber from the rest of the stock… hemp is the standard fiber of the world. It has great tensile strength and durability. It is used to produce more than 5000 textile products ranging from rope to fine laces, and the woody “herds”… can be used to produced more than 25,000 products ranging from dynamite to cellophane. It can be grown in any state in the union.”
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