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1914 Ten Dollar Federal Reserve Note

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  1914 Ten Dollar Federal Reserve Note Was it printed on hemp paper ? Does it have a picture of hemp harvesting on the back of the bill ? There are multiple websites  and posts floating around on social media. Which state, the 1914 Federal Reserve note is printed on hemp paper and has a picture of hemp being harvested on the back side of the bill. I also have visited several CBD stores and dispensaries which have this bill framed and displayed. Here are a couple of examples of the “facts” presented, to justify these claims. Actually much of what they say is true, but there are some issues. This is an example of the things which the sites talk about.... 10$ (1914) was Printed on Hemp Paper and Portrays Farmers Plowing Hemp “The back was designed by Clair Aubrey Huston; Farming, a scene in Manchester Township, York County, Pennsylvania, was engraved by Marcus W Baldwin; Industry, a mill in Joliet, Illinois, was engraved by HL Charlton. The first day of issue was November 16, 1914.”
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Pipes and Smoking.....

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  Pipes and Smoking....  1690's, Engelbert Kaempfer ===================================================================== 1740, Alexander Russell Tobacco is smoked to excess by all the men and many of the women. Even the labourers or handicraft tradesmen constantly have a pipe in their mouths if they can afford it. Those pipes are made of the twig of a rose bush cherry tree, & c bored for that purpose: those of the better sort are five or six feet long and adorned with silver. The bole is of clay, and often changed; but the pipes themselves last for years. Many who are in easy circumstances have lately adopted the Persian manner of smoking the nargeery (r) which is an instrument so constructed that the smoke of the tobacco passes through the water before it comes into the mouth. The method of drawing it is different from that of a pipe and a good part of the smoke seems to descend some way into the breast. The Persian tobacco is what they use in this instrument, which has a
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John Gerard

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  The Herball Or Generall Historie of Plantes John Gerard, Norton, John, 1597 https://books.google.com/books Pg 572 Description of the plant Male (Female) Hemp has a straight hollow stalk 4 to 5 feet high Full of branches when it grows wild, when it is sown in fields it has hardly any branches at all Rank smell with leaves made up of many little leaves joined together The seed is round and full of a white substance Female (Male) Looks the same as the other plant, but barren and without seed. It has to be harvested before the other plant or otherwise it will wither away and come to no good purpose. Cannabis, Zammer Banff, Canape, Canamo, Chanure, Kemp, Hempe. Males (female) Charle Hempe or Winter hempe, Female (male) Barren hempe or Sommer Hempe References Columella, Galen, Dioscorides, Mattioli Columella states hemp (cannabis sativa) grows best in fat dunged and watery soil, or plain and moist, but deeply worked. Columella (4 - 70 AD) a prominent Roman writer on agriculture.  March and
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National Archives

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  National Archives Little Hemp History from  Archives.gov.... There are letters and diary entries on planting, harvesting, and processing of hemp from the National Archives. List includes John Adams, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison..... ==================================================================== 1763 ( 1 )This is a letter written by Mr. Humphrey Ploughjogger (John Adams) to Boston Evening-Post all about growing hemp. 1763 ( 2 ) Entry in diary of John Adams. It is interesting because it has male and female plants reversed. It is just a draft of an essay he was writing to the Boston Gazette, as an answer to Mr. Humphrey Ploughjogger ( 3 ) This is actually a very good read and the end is very good talks about treatment of people. 1763 ( 3 ) explanation of the Humphrey Ploughjogger letters written by John Adams 1765 ( 4 ) George Washington diary or log entry which talks about separating the male from female plants. ** There is an added an
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Active Ingredient

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  Cannabinoids  ....  1940’s             These are all patents by Roger Adams Isolation of cannabidiol https://patents.google.com/patent/US2304669A/en - 1940 Marihuana active compounds https://patents.google.com/patent/US2419935A - 1941 Optically active tetrahydrodibenzopyrans having marihuana activity and process for making same https://patents.google.com/patent/US2419934A - 1941 Preparation of compounds with marihuana activity https://patents.google.com/patent/US2419936A - 1942 Marihuana active compounds https://patents.google.com/patent/US2419937A/ - 1944     Periodical articles....   Structure of Cannabidiol, A Product Isolated from the Marihuana Extract of Minnesota Wild Hemp Roger Adams, Madison Hunt, and J. H. Clark https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja01858a058 J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1940, 62, 1, 196–200 Publication Date:January 1, 1940 https://doi.org/10.1021/ja01858a058 Adams R. Marihuana: Harvey Lecture, February 19, 1942. Bull N Y Acad Med. 1942 Nov;18(11):705-30. PMID: 1
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