USHempCo Museum

Ancient China and Japan

• The Beginning
• Ts'ai Lun's Bright Idea - The Origins of Hemp Fibre
• The Invention of Paper
• The Word Spreads
• Hemp and Religion
• Hemp in Everyday Life
• Hemp Rope in Sumo
• Way of the Gods
• Purification Rites
• Cultivation and Fertilization
• The First Textiles
• The Land of Mulberry and Hemp
• Historical Evidence
• Legend of Marriage
• How the earthworm
• Hemp in Ancient Chinese Warfare
• Tai Ma - Great Hemp

Moving Westward

• Spreading the Seed
• Cannabis Moves West
• Rome, Greece, Babylonia, Palestine, and Egypt

India

• The Holy Plant of India
• The Beauty of Bhang

Europe and England

• Hemp Crosses the Oceans
• Hemp and the Triangular Sail
• England's Need for Hemp
• England's Dependence on Foreign Hemp

Hemp in Science and Medicine

• Cannabis as Medicine
• Classifying Cannabis Sativa

Early Colonial America

• Sailmaking and the American Colonies
• Robert King Carter
• More Valuable Than Cash
• How Hemp Clothed Early America
• The Invention of the Cotton Gin
• Mercantilism and the Spinning Bee

The United States of America

• The Demise of the American Hemp Farms
• Hemp: The Original Jean
• Hemp Cultivation in America
• The Chemurgic Movement
• Man-Made Fibers: The Toxic Alternative to Natural Fibers
• The Corporate Conspiracy
• Social Reorganization
• The Demonization of Hemp
• The William Randolph Hearst Theory
• The Racism Theory
• The Prohibition Bureaucracy Theory
• The Evidence Against Marijuana
• AMA Opposes the Evidence
• The Birdseed Industry and Prohibition
• A Narcotic of Some Kind
• Impediments to the Hemp Industry
• 1942: Hemp for Victory
• Decentralization of Hemp
• Pot and the Threat of Peace
• When Hemp Saved George Bush's Life
• Drug Incarcerations Skyrocket
• Corporate Prison Labor

The Present and Future of Industrial Hemp

• Sales of Hemp Products Worldwide
• Re-legalizing Hemp in the U.S.

• Random hemp fact!