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Hemp History
Hemp cultivation dates back to the beginnings of recorded history. Its first use was as food for humans and animals in Ancient China and India. Its fibre then became indispensable for making many necessary items.
For nearly 3000 years Hemp was planet Earth’s largest agricultural crop and most important industry producing the fibre, paper, clothing, lighting fuel and medicine used by much of humanity. It is and has always been Earths’ most sustainable natural resource.
Modern technological advances have made possible a large variety of foods that can be made from Hemp Seeds including Cheese, Milk, Ice Cream, Flour, Hemp Tofu, Butter and Oil. From the leaves and stalks it is now possible to make over 20,000 types of products from medicine to houses to cellophane to dynamite.
Shakespeare Smoked Weed?
January 8th 2017
It is believed that William Shakespeare may have written some of his most famous works while he was high. 400-year old "tobacco pipes" quote-unquote
were excavated from his garden by South African Scientists and sent to University of the Witwatersrand. 4 of the pipes contained traces of cannabis.
The Goddess Sheshat - The Goddess of Measures
January 7th 2017
2800 BC
Egyptian Goddess Sheshat (“the Goddess who measures”) depicted with a Hemp leaf above her head - records indicate Hemp was used for making measuring ropes in building construction.
Selling Like Hot Cakes!
http://herb.co/2015/04/16/where-did-we-go-wrong-a-very-brief-history-of-cannabis/
Cannabis cigarettes aptly named " Cigarros de Cannabis" and " Cigares de Joy" were advertised and sold as a cure for asthma and bronchitis in South America, Europe, and as far as Australia in the 19th Century. Particulary suited for the ladies and were still available after World War II
