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Why Hemp: Civilization's Forgotten Infrastructure Plant

For ten thousand years, hemp wove itself through the fabric of human civilization. The sails that carried Columbus across the Atlantic were hemp canvas—the very word 'canvas' derives from 'cannabis.' The ropes that rigged every ship in every navy of every empire were hemp cordage, twisted by generations of ropemakers whose craft cities still bear in their names. The first drafts of the United States Constitution were written on hemp paper. The original Levi Strauss jeans—designed to survive the brutal labor of gold mining—were hemp denim. When Henry Ford built his experimental car with hemp composite body panels in 1941, he wasn't innovating; he was remembering what every farmer's grandmother knew: hemp builds civilizations.

Then came the great forgetting.

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