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It's to inform you that the draft on the history of cannabis had been moved to article namespace per talk at the Entheogenic use of cannabis.  sami  ^talk 00:25, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

Ethnobotany book - hemp in Spanish colonies

I went to the university library today and got chapter 5 of Clarke's book on ethnobotany. If you want to shoot me an email, I will reply with it. Here's a sample. ☆ Bri (talk) 00:59, 5 January 2018 (UTC)

“ Bowman (1943) produced a comprehensive report on hemp cultivation at the California missions, indicating that cultivation and use of hemp was introduced at Mission San Jose in 1795 with the support of Diego de Borica a Spanish explorer and the seventh governor of “Las Californias” (1794 to 1800). In 1801, the Spanish government sent farming specialists from Mexico to their New Spain colonies in California to promote hemp cultivation with some promising results. Within six years the new hemp plantations were producing many thousands of pounds of fiber, mostly in areas around Santa Barbara, San José, Los Angeles, and San Francisco: “The 1809 crop of 123,000 pounds [55,792 kilograms] was four times that of the preceding year, while in 1810 almost 220,000 pounds [100,000 kilograms] were raised.” Substantial crop yields were mostly attributed to production by the Spanish Missions, which accounted for about two-thirds of the total during these years (Mosk 1939). However, 1810 was also the year that Mexico seceded from Spain, and consequently California was cut off from subsidies that had stimulated hemp growing. As a result, commercial hemp production ceased in California in the early nineteenth century and was never restarted, although the Spanish missions continued to produce small amounts for their own use (Mosk 1939, citing the Archivo de la misión de Santa Barbara; also see Bancroft 1886). On the other hand, hemp was also cultivated in the northern coastal area of California during at least part of the first half of the nineteenth century on a local, subsistence scale by the Russians at Fort Ross, which was established in 1812 and abandoned in 1841 (Thompson 1951). ”