Hemp for Victory

Hemp for Victory is a blackandwhite United States government film made during World War II and released in 1942, explaining the uses of hemp, encouraging farmers to grow as much as possible.

Before 1989, the film was relatively unknown. The United States government denied ever having made such a film. The United States Department of Agriculture library and the Library of Congress toldcitation needed all interested parties that no such movie was made by the USDA or any branch of the US government. Two VHS copies were recovered and donated to the Library of Congress onMay 1989 by Maria Farrow, Carl Packard, and Jack Herer.The only known copy in 1976 was abroadcast quality copy of the film that was originally obtained by William Conde in 1976 from a reporter for the Miami Herald and the Ethiopian Zion Coptic Church of Jamaica. It was given in trust that it would be made available to as many as possible. It was put into the hands of Jack Herer by William Conde during the 1984 OMI Oregon Marijuana Initiative. The filmyears later is now available anywhere on the Internet. ........

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