HEMP FOR VICTORY (DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR) votehemp/PDF/Illinois_Industrial_Hemp_Report.pdf “With the onset of World War II, the United States desperately needed a viable fiber crop to be used in the manufacture of clothing, rope and tents. The ban on hemp outlined in the 1937 Act was temporarily lifted to meet military needs. Because hemp could be adapted and grown throughout the corn belt, Illinois hemp production flourished. As a result several mills for extracting the fiber were constructed in northern Illinois by the federal government. Each mill processed the industrial hemp from about four thousand acres. Since the straw had to be transported to the mill, all industrial hemp was grown within twelve miles of each plant. Growers had to sign a contract to sell their straw the Commodity Credit Corporation, purchase approved seed and rent special machines for cutting and binding the industrial hemp. During World War II, the federal government subsidized industrial hemp for farmers who grew more than a million acres “ --- Industrial Hemp Investigative and Advisory Task Force report / submitted to the Illinois Senate and to the Illinois House of Representatives, January 26, 2000 One is amazed to still find so many people who are in denial over America’s (both medical as well as Industrial) Hemp past. Many even question whether the Hemp For Victory era even occurred. Yet as can be seen from the following Post-War advertisement (paid for by the Federal Government), such an era did occur AND Illinois (with Hemp factories in Earleville , Galesburg , Galva , Kirkland , Ladd , Lexington , Minok , Muncis , Polo , Shabbona, etc.), was in the very heart of it all.
Posted on: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 22:47:10 +0000
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