Cannabis Digest Issue 39 – Full Issue

Fibre Wars of the 1800’s

By Ted Smith By the end of the 1800s, hemp had fallen from the top of the fibre world.  Cotton, flax, jute and other crops had chipped away at the dominant position hemp held in agricultural world trade.  Ironically, the strong fibers in the hemp plant made it difficult to harvest and process, something economically […]

Early 20th Century Hemp Paper

By Ted Smith In 1916, the USA Department of Agriculture published Bulletin #404, announcing to the world an important new discovery in hemp processing.  This discovery should have lead to a huge wave of interest in hemp, but ironically it was the trigger that lead to Reefer Madness as I will discuss in a later […]

Pelvic Pain and Pot – Treating Endometriosis with THC