The cannabis in centuries XVI to XVIII (1)
The emperor Carlos V, when ordering his fleet military in the Barcelonian arsenals, imposed like precise condition that the riggings, sails and cordelajes of the ships that they had to be constructed went made with hemp of Tarragona, Lleida and Balaguer, recognized by his special resistance salt water.
In 1545 Felipe II it ordered to make plantations of hemp throughout his kingdom for foods, to make candles, cordelería, clothes and drugs.
In 1546 the doctor and French naturista P. Belon verify in Capadocia, the Paflagonia and the Cicilia the hemp culture:
"They also have a dust of which, taking a full spoonful, it makes laugh uncontrollably to that ingests it, which creates to see wonderful things. When it is wondered to them what is, many respond that cañamones worn out"
The Spaniards introduce the hemp in Latin America again. Although it is probable that he entered prehistoric times by some of the nomadic hordes that passed by the Straits of Bering; or that some Phoenician or tartésico retailer had crossed the ocean and had introduced this so beneficial plant.
This was used puff, food and to create weaves, cords, networks, etc. One even says that the porros were invented in some island of the Caribbean. In 1545 it is introduced in Chile; 1554 it enters Peru.
In the zone of the north of America the English introduce hemp in 1606 in Canada; in 1611 he arrives at Virginia. In 1619 the first law was decreed on the marijuana in America, in the colony of Jamestown, Virginia, by which it ordered all the farmers to cultivate hemp seeds.
Other similar laws were decreed on the obligatory culture of hemp; in Massachusetts in 1631; in Connecticut in 1632, and the colonies of Chesapeake in the middle of century XVIII.
The hemp was currency of legal course in most of the American colonies of the English from 1631 to principles of the 1800; in order to animate to the farmers to cultivate more.
It was even gotten to jail to those people who refused to cultivate the hemp during the periods of shortage; for example in Virginia between 1763 and 1767. The governments of century XVIII, in Spain, let suitable directions to assure the protection the hemp produced in Fertile valleys of Granada and the Safe one for Spanish navy.
Robert Burton in The anatomy of melancholy (1621) suggested the use of cannabis in the treatment of the depression. And Nicholas Culpier summarized all the reasons by which the cannabis was considered useful from the medical point of view.
From 1740 Russia he produces 80% of the western production and finished products of hemp (prudent, networks, candles, etc.) thanks to the very cheap manual labor. The cannabis is the main mercantile product of Russia, in front of skins, wood and iron.
Great Britain buys to Russia 90% to him or more of the hemp for its naval Navy; the British boats had a great amount of products made with hemp (the naval supremacy of Great Britain was the greater one of its time).
