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The Declaration of Independence Is Drafted up on Hemp Paper • 1840: Abraham Lincoln Uses Hemp Seed Oil to Fuel His Household Lamps World Timeline of Hemp • 8,000 BCE: Traces of hemp have been found in modern day China and Taiwan. Evidence hemp was used for pottery and food (seed & oil) • 2,000 BCE – 800 BCE: Hindu sacred text Atharvaveda (Science of Charms) as “Sacred Grass”, one of the five sacred plants of India • 600 BCE: Hemp rope is found in southern Russia • 900: Arabs adopt technology to make hemp paper • 1533: King Henry VIII, fines farmers if they do not raise hemp • 1616: Jamestown, first permanent English settlement in the Americas, grows hemp to make ropes, sails, and clothing • 1700s: American farmers in several colonies are required by law to grow hemp • 1776: The Declaration of Independence is drafted up on hemp paper • 1840: Abraham Lincoln uses hemp seed oil to fuel his household lamps. • 1916: USDA publishes findings showing hemp produces 4X more paper per acre than trees • 1937: The Marijuana Tax Act placed a tax on all cannabis sales (including hemp), heavily discouraging the production of hemp • 1938: Popular Mechanics writes an article about how hemp could be used in 25,000 different products. • 1942: Henry Ford builds an experimental car body made with hemp fiber, which is ten times stronger than steel • 1942: USDA initiates the “Hemp for Victory” program – this leads to more than 150,000 acres of hemp production • 1957: The last commercial hemp fields in the US were planted in Wisconsin • 1970: the Controlled Substances Act classified hemp as an illegal Schedule I drug - imposed strict regulations on the cultivation of industrial hemp as well as marijuana • 1998: The U.S. begins to import food-grade hemp seed and oil. • 2004: Ninth Circuit Court decision in Hemp Industries Association vs. DEA permanently protects sales of hemp foods and body care products in U.S. • 2014: President Obama signed the Farm Bill, which allowed research institutions to start piloting hemp farming. • 2016: A Colorado farm earned the Organic certification from USDA for its hemp Fun Facts - HEMP The USS Constitution in Boston Harbor: More than 120,000 pounds of hemp fiber was needed to rig the 44-gun USS Constitution, America’s oldest Navy ship affectionately called “Old Ironsides.” British colonies compelled by law to grow hemp Hemp arrived in Colonial America with the Puritans in the form of seed for planting and as fiber in the lines, sails and caulking of the Mayflower. 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