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The Heart of Hemp Country von Joe Hickey und Arthur Rouse
It’s sunrise over the emerald fields of Kentucky and hemp sways gently in the warm summer breeze.
“I love the scent of hemp in the field,” says 91-year old Jake Graves. “I haven’t had that pleasure in 70 years.” Jacob Hughes Graves, III is a 6th generation Kentucky farmer and in the 1920s and 30s, hemp was a mainstay of his family’s farm, in an area known as the "Hemp Capital of the World.” During that time, scientists, agronomists and industrialists like Thomas Edison, George Washington Carver and Henry Ford, who called themselves “Chemurgists,” were convinced farmers could power the industrial revolution with fiber and fuel from carbohydrates. Hemp was their focus. In fact, in 1938, Popular Mechanics Magazine referred to hemp as the “Billion Dollar Crop.” But when hemp was included with marijuana in the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937, all research and devel-
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