Hemp Fact Friday
- Bryan Pracht
- Aug 15, 2014
- 1 min read
Refusing to grow hemp in America during the 17th and 18th centuries was against the law! You could be jailed in Virginia for refusing to grow hemp from 1763 to 1769 and it was legal to pay taxes with hemp in America from 1631 until the early 1800s.
(G. M. Herdon. Hemp in Colonial Virginia) (LA Times. Aug. 12, 1981.)