{"id":643,"date":"2013-12-07T23:50:32","date_gmt":"2013-12-07T23:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/?p=643"},"modified":"2013-12-07T23:50:32","modified_gmt":"2013-12-07T23:50:32","slug":"the-hemp-war-of-1812","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/07\/the-hemp-war-of-1812\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hemp War of 1812"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jackherer.com\/thebook\/chapter-eleven\/\">The Emperor Wears No Clothes\u00a0\u2013 JackHerer.com<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; background-color: #ffffff;\">John Quincy Adams (later to become President), who was American Consul at St. Petersburg, in 1809 noted:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; background-color: #ffffff;\">\u201cAs many as 600 clipper ships, flying the American flag, in a two-week period, were in Kronstadt\u201d (the Port of St. Petersburg, once called Leningrad in the former USSR) loading principally cannabis hemp for England (illegally) and America, where quality hemp is also in great demand.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; background-color: #ffffff;\">The War of 1812 is a mystery to most Americans, because American schools aren\u2019t allowed to mention hemp, which was at the center of the conflict.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; background-color: #ffffff;\">Simply put, hemp for rope and sails was the most important natural resource of the day, and the best hemp came from Russia. When France cut off Britain\u2019s access to Russian hemp, the British forced American sailers to be their middle men (under threat of impressment). It was this \u201cInterference in American trade and sovereignty\u201d that President Madison cited as his chief justification for declaring war.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; background-color: #ffffff;\">For more info read Jack Herer\u2019s book (linked above) and his source book \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/17187810-america-russia-hemp-and-napoleon--american-trade-with-russia-and-the-bal\">America, Russia, Hemp, and Napoleon<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Emperor Wears No Clothes\u00a0\u2013 JackHerer.com John Quincy Adams (later to become President), who was American Consul at St. Petersburg, in 1809 noted: \u201cAs many as 600 clipper ships, flying the American flag, in a two-week period, were in Kronstadt\u201d &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/07\/the-hemp-war-of-1812\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiber"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}