The first digital-age domestic hemp crop is being
harvested as I write. The subtle decrease in seismic activity currently
puzzling Virginia geologists can be traced to Thomas Jefferson ceasing
to spin in his grave for the first time in 77 years.
For
a century USDA biologists conducted taxpayer-funded hemp cultivar
research for farmers, after all. They did this in a Virginia meadow that
is today the Pentagon. And why wouldn’t they, in support of a key crop
supplying the Navy with rope and earning millions for farmers from
Wisconsin to Kentucky (when millions meant something)?
