Hemp in History:
The United States
Declaration of
Independence
...is the statement adopted by the Second Continental
Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on July 4, 1776. Wikipedia
4 Founding Fathers who grew hemp:
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)
President of the Supreme Executive
Council of Pennsylvania
6
Started one of America's first hemp paper mills.
This allowed America to have a free colonial press
without having to beg or justify the need for paper
and books from England
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
President of the United States
"Hemp is of first necessity to the
wealth and protection of the
country"