In 2016, while Arizona voters were deciding on Proposition 205 — a ballot measure to legalize recreational cannabis — a pharmaceutical company called Insys Therapeutics quietly donated $500,000 to the opposition campaign. That half-million dollars made Insys the single largest donor fighting to keep weed illegal in Arizona. Their sole product? Subsys, a sublingual fentanyl
On August 13, 1941, Henry Ford stood in front of a crowd in Dearborn, Michigan, and took a sledgehammer to the trunk panel of his newest prototype. The panel didn’t dent. It barely flexed. The crowd went silent. That car was made from hemp. The Soybean Car That Was Really a Hemp Car Ford’s “Soybean
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Linalool smells like lavender because it is lavender — or rather, it is the molecule that gives lavender its scent. It is also found in over 200 plant species, including basil, birch, coriander, and cannabis. For centuries, lavender has been used as a folk remedy for anxiety, insomnia, and nervous conditions. Modern pharmacology has spent
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The Invisible Hands Behind the Hemp Trade When we talk about hemp’s golden age — the era when it powered the world’s navies, shaped geopolitics, and fueled global trade — we usually talk about empires, admirals, and treaties. What we don’t talk about enough is who actually grew and processed the hemp. The answer, on
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Andrew Mellon, the richest man in America and Secretary of the Treasury, appointed his own nephew-in-law to run the Federal Bureau of Narcotics. DuPont patented nylon the same year hemp was banned. Hearst ran racist propaganda to protect his timber empire. Follow the money.
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Hemp isn’t some trendy new “superfabric.” It’s the oldest textile material in human history. We wore it, sailed with it, wrote on it, and built with it for thousands of years — until we collectively forgot. Here are seven facts about hemp fiber that should make you question everything you thought you knew about textiles.
In 2008, a team led by Jürg Gertsch at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology published a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) that should have rewritten how we think about spice racks, salad dressings, and cannabis. They demonstrated that beta-caryophyllene (BCP) — a terpene found in black pepper, cloves,
Harry Anslinger didn’t just ban cannabis — he weaponized it against Black and Latino Americans. He targeted jazz musicians, used racist slurs in official government documents, and sent agents to arrest a dying Billie Holiday in her hospital bed. Prohibition was never about drugs. It was about racism.
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The cement industry has a dirty secret — actually, it’s not even a secret. Cement production is responsible for approximately 8% of all global CO2 emissions. If the cement industry were a country, it would be the third-largest emitter on Earth, behind only China and the United States. Every new building, every new road, every
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