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Worth remembering that the Royal Navy, and all the commercial sailing vessels that enabled the British Empire to establish,  relied on hemp for years, both for all the ropes and for caulking their ships to keep them watertight.  At one time there was a pretty massive hemp growing industry, supplying a wide range of hemp fibre for a wide range of purposes.

 

When I was a teenager you could still just buy large bags of hemp seed.  It was amazing just how much interest there was in "biology projects" back then.  I well remember germinating the plants in the airing cupboard, with my mother's blessing, then planting them out in pots on the balcony outside my bedroom window.  By mid-summer there was a veritable forest of the stuff growing out there, with not the slightest suspicion from my mother than anything was not as it should be...............

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