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1938 Marihuana Conference, Part 1
1938 Marihuana Conference, Part 1
1938 Marihuana Conference, Part 2
1938 Marihuana Conference, Part 2
1938 Marihuana Conference, Part 3
1938 Marihuana Conference, Part 3
Fiber Wars, Chapter 10: The Extinction of Kentucky Hemp
The tragic element of this story is that as a result of the pariah status to which hemp was relegated in the US, Kentucky hemp is now extinct. The germplasm produced in Dewey’s breeding program and all that collected by the USDA is lost.
Fiber Wars, Chapter 1: Once Upon a Time
What is the truth about hemp? And why is it growing wild all over Wisconsin and other states and under attack by helicopter? How did this plant, so valued by the Founding Fathers, become an outcast, a pariah? The real story of hemp is not a story of drugs. It is a tale of competition for markets and it captures in its telling all the significant cross currents of the Industrial Age.
Fiber Wars, Chapter 2: Plant Fibers in History
Today, people more frequently think of diet when they think of fiber. Yet, historically, their manifold functions in daily human activity made agriculturally produced plant fibers the foundation of economies from field to factory and gave them a central role in international relations.
Fiber Wars, Chapter 3: Domestic Bast Fibers
Flax, hemp, jute and ramie are ‘soft’ bast fibers, fiber found in the stem of the plant. jute is produced in the humid tropics. ramie, a perennial nettle, although highly researched by the usda, never became an established crop due to its recalcitrant degumming requirement.
Fiber Wars, Chapter 4: The Economy of Cotton
Meanwhile, on other fronts, cotton was not doing so well. After the Civil War destroyed the foundation of southern agriculture, the plantation, the South was led, inexorably, to a debilitating economic dependence on cotton monoculture.
Fiber Wars, Chapter 5: Hemp’s Progress
While the South’s cotton economy struggled, following the Civil War, hemp culture spread, with active federal assistance, north into Illinois, Iowa, Ohio, New York, Minnesota and eventually to Wisconsin, west to Nebraska and California, and also, briefly, south.
Fiber Wars, Chapter 6: The Twenties and the Rise of Chemurgy
The seeds of the depression of the nineteen thirties were planted in the war years of 1914-18. They sprouted in August, 1921. That was when country banks were ordered by the Federal Reserve Board not to renew their notes from ranchmen and farmers but to collect them, in full and at once.