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Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence on hemp paper.</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.naihc.org/hemp_information/hemp_facts.html"><P><FONT size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">*Because of its importance for sails (the word "canvass" is rooted in "cannabis") and rope for ships, hemp was a required crop in the American colonies.</FONT></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.naihc.org/hemp_information/hemp_facts.html"><FONT size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">*Henry Ford experimented with hemp to build car bodies. 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