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History of industrial hemp
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2024-07-02 13:54
In 1774, the North American colonies were no longer willing to remain economic slaves and political vassals of Great Britain, and on April 19 of the following year, the War of Independence broke out in gun battles between colonial militias and British troops at Lexington and Concord.On July 4, 1776, the Continental Congress issued the Declaration of Independence, and the United States of America was proclaimed.During that time, in order to maintain their newly declared independence, the colonists not only needed to train a strong caravan, but also the ability to provide all the resources needed to support both the military and the civilian population. For the fledgling nation, grains and beef became the top choices. Once they had secured their food supply, the colonists struggled to provide raw materials for the war effort, and hemp became increasingly important as a strategic material. The impact of the war on the hemp industry was centered on the fluctuating price of hemp fiber. Before the War of Independence, hemp sold for about 27-35 shillings per hundred pounds. 1780-1782, the price soared to 300 shillings.
After the War of Independence, hemp production began to gradually rebound. One of the main reasons for this was the tariffs imposed by Congress against the importation of marijuana from foreign countries.In 1792, a tariff of $20 per ton was imposed, which increased to $40 per ton during the War of 1812, and to $60 per ton in 1828.
These tariffs were adopted at the urging of then Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton. Hamilton was heavily influenced by mercantilism and the theories of the classical school of political economy, which advocated the protection of tariffs to encourage commerce and manufacturing. Thus, he believed that opposing foreign marijuana imports through the imposition of tariffs could be used as a stimulus to domestic marijuana production in order to make the United States independent of other nations in essential military supplies. After Hamilton, Henry Clay, a prominent delegate from Kentucky, became an important figure in the tireless lobbying for tariff protection.
Thus, as the westward movement advanced, the production of marijuana followed. At the same time, the boom in cotton cultivation in the South provided marijuana growers with an unparalleled business opportunity, and in the early 19th century, a turning point in the history of cotton cultivation in the South occurred, when cotton production increased dramatically as never before, replacing tobacco as the South's dominant plant by 1810, and ultimately becoming the “king” of the South's crops, and giving the South the “king” of all crops. ”, and the south has obtained” cotton kingdom ”(cotton kingdom) title. 1815, the European textile market boom, the southern United States cotton production to further expand to meet market demand. In turn, the production of cotton needed to buy hemp rope for baling, a huge market demand further promoted the cultivation of hemp in Kentucky, the cotton industry's health so that the cannabis market has become increasingly dependent on the object. Researchers have found that although hemp production did not expand into Kentucky until 1775, by 1810 it had become “an important product of Kentucky. By the 1850s, production of hemp in Kentucky was at an all-time high.
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