Saturday, September 26, 2009

Hemp For Victory

As an interesting part of American marijuana history, the United States Department of Agricultural made an educational video to help aid farmers grow hemp for the war effort.  Prior to 1989, this video was for the most part unknown, with the Department of Agriculture library and the Library of Congress denying it's existence.  On May 19th, 1989, Maria Farrow, Carl Packard, and Jack Herer, author of The Emperor Wears No Clothes and presidential candidate in 1988 and 1992 for the Grassroots Party, recovered and donated two VHS copies to the Library of Congress.

This video is public domain and can be downloaded from the Internet Archive.

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