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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: 1704
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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#2. To: Operation 40 (#0)
I'm guessing it is because they want to profit from their labor and investment?
You beat me to it lad.
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