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Title: Why Kentucky farmers are quitting tobacco and turning to hemp
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PBS/Youtube
URL Source: https://youtu.be/nJvVwXCu2g4
Published: Oct 17, 2015
Author: PBS Newshour
Post Date: 2015-10-22 10:51:46 by Operation 40
Keywords: hemp, sustainable, green
Views: 855
Comments: 9
Oct 17, 2015: 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. 8 things you didn’t know about hemp 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. Jamestown Colony was England’s first permanent settlement in North America run by the Virginia Company. The hemp was used to provide cordage and canvas for British ships, Ambrose said. Similar hemp decrees were later issued in Connecticut and Massachusetts...snip Read More: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/8-things-didnt-know-hemp/
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
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#1. To: Operation 40 (#0)
True or False: George Washington was a hemp farmer?
I'm guessing it is because they want to profit from their labor and investment? Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
I'm guessing it is because they want to profit from their labor and investment? In a Cop Culture, the Bill of Rights Doesn’t Amount to Much You beat me to it lad.
They will grow whatever makes them money.
Psalm 37
I am surprised MrWhite has not come on and commented. Si vis pacem, para bellum Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
misterwhite and the rest of those who have been duped by a federal government that lies routinely to the masses of idiots are trying to pretend this post doesn't exist. And they will fool themselves, again. Just Say "Know Nothing" I see NOTHING i Know NOTHING i am an American!
The video " Hemp for Victory " was very interesting. I knew it was used for rope, but did not know it was used to make sails. Better not let Mr White watch it, he will have a heart attack, and might even turn suicidal. Si vis pacem, para bellum Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
You can get all the hemp you want from Canada. They'll sell it cheap, since nobody wants it.
#2. To: Operation 40 (#0)
Why Kentucky farmers are quitting tobacco and turning to hemp
#3. To: sneakypete, Operation 40 (#2)
Why Kentucky farmers are quitting tobacco and turning to hemp
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts
#4. To: sneakypete (#2)
#5. To: Operation 40 (#0)
#6. To: Operation 40 (#0)
" Why Kentucky farmers are quitting tobacco and turning to hemp "
#7. To: Stoner, misterwhite, Jack Herer, War on Drugs Fans, Nancy Reagan, (#6)
#8. To: Operation 40 (#7)
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#9. To: Stoner (#8)
"Better not let Mr White watch it, he will have a heart attack, and might even turn suicidal."
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