Meditations on Hemp

First of all, we are back! Secondly, we all must love Spring because it’s the season when everything around us simply blooms. It’s that time of the year when we get to grow our ideas, express our thoughts and feelings, jump start that new project we always felt like doing but we never really had […]

One of the reasons that American farmers were unable to produce enough hemp to satisfy England and their own colonial needs was the scarcity and high cost of labor needed to harvest the crop. Both George Washington and Thomas Jefferson tried to raise hemp and both lost money doing so. Exasperated at England’s demands that

Cannabis finally makes way into the New World, just in time to cast England’s spotlight upon it.  Like her greedy European neighbours, England eyed the New World as well.   Spain’s conquistadors were sending a stream of gold and silver booty from the Aztec and Inca Empires. The English believed that they too could become

  With Hemp being on the list of Magical Plants across the world, it is only fitting to talk a little about Myths, Legends and Rituals that people from different countries used to perform in order to ensure their Hemp Crops would be tall, healthy and amazing, right?   In order to keep up with

In Italy, hemp was once called “quello delle cento operazioni” which means “the substance of a hundred operations” because of the many processes to which the plant was subjected before its fibers could be used. Long before the days of automation, young girls would assemble this magical plant right in their very own houses. It

During the Middle Ages, the Italians, or more precisely, the people from Venice, ruled the seas and nothing surpassed the strength and durability of the hemp ropes with which their ships were outfitted.   To maintain their supremacy on the seas, the Italians had to be assured that their supplies of hemp fiber would not

How much do you actually know about Ukraine?   This question might have been one that echoed in your mind in the last couple of days, “thanks to” what is happening today.  Ukraine is home to the first constitution in the modern world. Ukraine is the biggest country in Europe. Ukraine is the eighth most

Every culture has some kind of escape hatch, take it as a breath of “fresh air”  or a bite of “hashish” in order to cope with the realities of everyday existence. For over a thousand years, hashish has been this escape hatch for a large segment of Arab society.   The earliest groups to use

The apocryphal oath by which Haydar entrusted his disciples not to reveal the secret of hashish to anyone but the Sufis underlies the close association between the drug and the Sufi movement in the Arab community. (check our previous article in order to find the Arab legend that tells us about Hashish)   The origin