By 2019, how many US states had passed legislation legalizing hemp?
Answer47 states
Legalization spread fast once the federal ban was lifted.
Source: Wikipedia, Hemp (2019) en.wikipedia.org
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In what year did Colorado harvest what's considered the first modern US hemp crop in over 60 years?
Answer2013
That harvest came years before the federal 2018 legalization, under a state pilot program.
Source: Wikipedia, Hemp (2013) en.wikipedia.org
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About what share of the world's hemp does China produce?
Answermore than 70%
China has dominated global industrial hemp production for decades.
Source: Wikipedia, Hemp (2024) en.wikipedia.org
During peak wartime demand in 1942, about how many acres of hemp did the US plant?
Answerabout 36,000 acres
That was more than 20 times the acreage planted just a year earlier, driven by wartime rope and fiber needs.
Source: Wikipedia, Hemp (2024) en.wikipedia.org
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