A History of the Hemp Industry in Kentucky

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It is hard to consider that at one time burley tobacco used to be not the chief cash crop in Kentucky. Yet for more than half a century hemp dominated the state’s agricultural production.

James Hopkins surveys the hemp industry in Kentucky from its beginning through its complete demise at the end of World War II, describing the processes of seeding and harvesting the plant, and marketing manufactured goods made of the fiber.

With debate right now raging over the legalization of industrial hemp, it is very important that an accurate portrait of this controversial resource be to be had. Even if in the beginning published in 1951, Hopkins’s work remains remarkably current as hemp manufacturing today is little changed from the practices the creator describes. This edition includes an up to date bibliography of up to date publications concerning the scientific, economic, and political facets of industrial hemp.

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