With the loss of Asian sources for rope fiber, the Department of Agriculture requested American farmers harvest marijuana to make up for the dearth.


Some years earlier (and later), weed was a nuisance to society; click here to read about it…


Click here to read about the 1944 U.S. Army study concerning weed…




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