Ras's Wisdom Wednesday — Week 4: The Hemp Rope That Crossed Oceans
Bevon Findley4/29/20260 replies
🌿 Ras's Wisdom Wednesday — Week 4
The Hemp Rope That Crossed Oceans
Most of the sailing ships that crossed the Atlantic — including those that carried enslaved Africans — were rigged with hemp rope and sailed under hemp canvas. The plant that was used to build those vessels of horror was later criminalized in the same nations that profited from slavery. The irony is deep.
How do you hold the complexity of hemp's role in history?
- Does knowing hemp's role in colonialism change how you think about legalization?
- What other contradictions in cannabis history stand out to you?
- How do we honor the full history — the good and the painful?