As a retired Army aviator, I avoided being anywhere around pot during my career, and for about a decade after I retired. Once I moved to WA, it took me a while to gather up the courage to try it. Talk about a n00b!
In any case, I can’t complain about a pot-free career; but I do regret the intense antipathy I used to have to pot. I’ve decided that if my dad and sister had been pot-heads instead of alcoholics, everyone’s lives would have been better.
I’m also a spinner/weaver. This article is from Spin Off magazine in 2015, but it’s got wonderful information, from a spinner’s point of view. I sure hope the nation drops this pot/hemp = “the devil” notion right quick.
read more here: spinoffmagazine.com/…
Editor’s note: February 4th is national Hemp Day, so we thought we'd share this article from 2015 by Stephenie Gaustad and the late Alden Amos in celebration of this bast fiber. The legal status of growing fiber hemp varies by state, is contantly changing, and it may be prohibited in your area. Consult your local law enforcement agency before embarking on any hemp-growing activities. The following is intended for educational purposes and to deepen your understanding of spinning, not as an endorsement of private hemp cultivation. Any legal consequences are entirely your own. Spinning purchased hemp fiber is not prohibited anywhere to the best of our knowledge. Thanks to Dr. Daniela Vergara of the University of Colorado at Boulder for her expert read of this article.
Hemp is generally accepted worldwide as a valuable agricultural product and fiber source, and we currently see a public, scientific, and governmental acceptance of industrial hemp. This remarkable fiber is also experiencing a rebirth of interest among handspinners, but there is much confusion surrounding its cultivation and use. The purpose of this article is to present information about industrial hemp and hold up some contemporary nonsense to closer scrutiny. (Note that issues involving legalization of hemp’s psychoactive and medicinal twin, marijuana, are beyond the scope of this article. They are two separate industries, two different discussions.)
Off-topic: it just started snowing here. A good day to stay indoors and read...with a cat on my lap.