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“There should be no necessity for an apology or an excuse for preparing a work upon hemp culture at this time… It was among the first introduced into America, and one of the most extensive in cultivation among the colonists; Read More …
The 2018 Agriculture Improvement Act aka the Farm Bill was just signed into order officially opening the door for legal (regulated) hemp production in the United States nationwide! Seeing is believing so here is the full approved Read More …
‘Little girl turning the handle on a wheel that twists hemp into yarn’, photographed by George Silk. Italy, May 1944
‘Countryside scene of women breaking hemp on a dual hemp brake while a young girl spins hemp’ (la Corrèze illustrée types et scènes champêtres broyage du chanvre), postcard from Corrèze, France early 1900
Man inspects a drying cannabis harvest, Lebanon 1969
Hemp Harvest, Italy 1940’s Notice that men, women and children were all involved in the hemp harvest… Family!
‘The Cut Flower Trade’ illustration from The American florist: a weekly journal for the trade, in 1885
Men carrying bundles of hemp to the Złoczów Market in Zolochiv, Ukraine. September 26, 1934 I Am Coming From the Hemp Farm (translated from Farsi) I am coming from the hemp farm Water on one side, Fire on the other Read More …
The Quest for Purple “Purple, the name and the colour, comes from a dye made from the mucus glands of a tropical sea snail, the murex (porphyra in Greek, purpura in Latin). This discovery is attributed to the Phoenician god Read More …
‘Marijuana and guns taken in a raid’, Kazakhstan, USSR 1956