United States Recommends Hemp, 1796

“On this tract is a large quantity of rich bottom, fit for meadow or the culture of hemp”

– Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser, November 07, 1796
In 1796, the new American Government decides to auction off some of its vast lands to the new citizens.  The Government recommendation on what to do with this new land?

Grow Hemp!

Remind me again what America was founded on…

Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser, November 07, 1796


Harvested Hemp, Kentucky – 1921