Hemp History

Hemp is one of the most important plants ever to be cultivated on this planet; hemp has played an important role to nearly every culture and has had a major role in the creation of writing and the development of clothing. The Chinese have been using hemp since the Neolithic age!

 Hemp has been grown in America from the very first settlement, settlers in Jamestown where required to grow hemp as one of their annual crops. This early hemp cultivation was used in every aspect of the settlers lives, they used the fibers to craft everything from rope to sails. The word canvas is derived from cannabis.

Today, hemp has over 50,000 known uses, yet only 30 countries allow the cultivation of hemp.