Michael Krawitz, founder and curator of the Cannabis Museum, has obtained via ebay a promotional booklet attesting to the widespread medical use of cannabis in the U.S. a century ago. The handsomely designed and printed 16-page booklet was published by Parke, Davis & Co. to market its "Cannabis Americana" to doctors and pharmacists.

Just as drug companies nowadays do when they have a potential "blockbuster" emerging from the pipeline, Parke, Davis knocked the competition ("Cannabis Indica") and invoked science to peddle its wares in 1910.

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Kentucky hemp history

A History of the Hemp Industry in Kentucky. James F. Hopkins. Foreword by Thomas D. Clark. The University Press of Kentucky, 1998 (1951), 244 pages w/ 8 pages of B/W plates.

        I knew I had arrived when, leaving Shelbyville in Shelby County, and heading toward Lexington on the old State Road 60 (long-since a back road, superseded by Interstate 64), I encountered the first intersection: the marker identified the crossing road as "Hemphill Road."
        Yes, of course, Shelby County Kentucky! I rifled through the manila folder on the passenger seat for the dog-eared photocopy and flipped to the map. I was in the heart of old Kentucky hemp country. Weren’t my chances pretty good of finding a copy of "Hopkins" at an antiquarian in this University of Kentucky-Lexington town? That, at least, was the hope with which I rationalized turning south from Indianapolis rather than bee-lining it for home in Wisconsin, during February of 1994.

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The Cannabible
By White Cluster 

This is a great book, I've had it a fair while now, number 2 is almost out now, so I figure I'll get in a review before it does come out.

The Cannabible is not a book on growing pot, it is a book of photography of (mostly cured) buds, there is a little bit of growing advice here and there, but most of it is crap, I doubt Jason King has grown a plant in his life, but that doesn't matter, He is an excellent photographer and if you like drooling over budshots then no book is better than this one.You might think that you can see good enough buds on the internet, but thats not true, thats like comparing good holiday snaps with National Geographic, Jason King can make the shittiest looking buds look like beautiful art.

The book is supposed to be some kind of strain base, but it fails as a strain base, the "strain" reports are based on samples purchased off the black market, so he's more judging the grower more than the strain, but overall he seems to know a good smoke (except for his opinion on the great great white shark). And his attempts to describe the different tastes of cannabis are great.

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Does the US Government considers all strains of hemp as marijuana?

Facts: Partially true, although things are changing. For in its more than 8000 years of cultivation, hemp and its psychoactive drug Cannabis Sativa have been inextricably linked. The name marijuana is a recent moniker. It was first called K(a)N(a)B(a) (cannibas) in early Sumeria and in is referred to as hashish in the Middle East.

We’re not going to address the marijuana culture here and around the world in this article. Our focus is about hemp and it’s use as a biodegradable, highly versatile resource. Even if the Federal Government approved cultivation of what’s termed “industrial hemp” today, most sources say it will take 10 to15 years before full-scale cultivation and commercialization of the crop is realized. Hemp is a complicated subject, and my first inclination was to write a series of blogs on the subject, but realized all that’s necessary are the basic facts. Below you’ll find links, scholarly and otherwise, to my sources.

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