06/05/2026
June marks the beginning of H**p History Month—a time to reflect on the people, events, and milestones that helped shape the story of one of humanity's oldest and most versatile crops.
One of those pivotal moments occurred on June 1, 1996, when actor and h**p advocate Woody Harrelson planted four industrial h**p seeds in Kentucky and intentionally challenged laws that treated industrial h**p the same as ma*****na.
At the time, Kentucky—once America's leading h**p-producing state—had prohibited all cannabis varieties, including non-intoxicating industrial h**p. Woody's peaceful act of civil disobedience led to his arrest and helped ignite a national conversation about h**p's agricultural, environmental, and economic value.
After a four-year legal battle, Harrelson was acquitted, and his efforts became one of many sparks that helped fuel the movement to bring industrial h**p back to American farms. Today, h**p is once again being grown across the United States for fiber, grain, building materials, textiles, paper, bioplastics, animal bedding, and countless other sustainable applications.
As we kick off H**p History Month, we honor the farmers, advocates, researchers, entrepreneurs, and policymakers who never gave up on this remarkable plant and helped pave the way for the h**p industry we continue building today.
Sometimes meaningful change begins with planting a seed.
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