Did you know that people have been burning marijuana to intoxicate themselves for thousands of year – probably tens of thousands of years? And that in addition to this purpose, they’ve also been growing hemp to make rope, clothing, shoes, and many other things for at least ten thousand years?

Chinese painting of a woman using a spinning wheel

Spinning wheel

This woman in China using an early spinning wheel in the 1100s AD, for example, would probably have been wearing hemp clothing.

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and here’s more about the invention of the spinning wheel: