”(Marihuana tax act). George Washington, as well as a few of the founding fathers, grew marijuana on their own property. “The crop was widely grown in the United States from the colonial period into the mid-1800s; both fine and coarse fabrics, twine, and paper from hemp were in common use.”(Scott Miller, Brief History). However, by the 1890s, laborsaving machinery for harvesting cotton made the criteria more competitive as a source of fabric for clothing and deeming Cannabis as “unnatural.” Imports of cotton…
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