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On Wednesday, May 20, 2015, Rhode Island’s legislature held a hearing for House Bill 6177, a bill proposing to legalize the growth and sale of hemp within the state. This hearing was scheduled to clear up any misconceptions regarding industrial hemp.
Hemp History
Hemp doesn’t have a simple etymological history. For medieval Europeans, “hemp” was the generic word used to describe fiber. With European expansion, fiber plants encountered during colonization were often identified as hemp. Accordingly, a variety of plants include the word hemp in their common names: Mauritius hemp (Furcraea gigantea), New Zealand hemp (Phormium tenax), Sunn hemp (Crotalaria juncea), Indian hemp (Apocynum cannabinum), among others.
The bewilderment began with the introduction of a new word to describe hemp: marijuana. In an 1894 edition of Scribner’s Magazine, the word mariguan, an etymological variation of the word marijuana, is often cited as the earliest published use of the word marijuana.
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