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

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

  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

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

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

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

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