Hemptations List of Cannabis Records

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Wearing Different Hemp Hat - 167 Days Record Held by Beach

Wearing Different Hemp Shirt - 191 Days Record Held by Beach

Largest Collection of Hemp Products - 120+ Record Held by Beach, highlighting the extensive use of hemp in Beachs life

Oldest Hemp Store - Hemptations in Cincinnati, Ohio, established in 1995, is a cornerstone of the hemp community.

Largest Selection of Hemp - 1000+ varieties available at Hemptations in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Tallest Hemp Plant

Tallest Hemp Plant 24ft1in (7.34m), grown by Hemp Traders / Riverdale Farm in California's Central Valley. This variety, which breaks fiber records, was harvested on 9-10-26

Oldest Hemp House

The historic Nakamura Family House in Miasa (Omachi City, Nagano Prefecture), built in 1698, features walls and a roof connected with hemp rope to the frame. This remarkable structure now serves as a hemp museum, showcasing the history of hemp products and hosting various cannabis events while preserving important fiber records.

Oldest Hempcrete House

In 1986, Maison de la Turque in Nogent-sur-Seine, France, became a pioneer by using a mix of hemp hurds and lime as wall infill, contributing to the growing recognition of hemp products and their potential in sustainable building practices. This innovation also aligns with the rising interest in cannabis events that highlight the diverse applications of cannabis-related fibers in construction.

Oldest Hemp Material

Excavated in Çatalhöyük, Turkey, and dating back 9,000 years, the woven fabric, which may hold important fiber records, was discovered wrapped around a baby skeleton in the remains of a burned house, highlighting the ancient use of hemp products.

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Oldest Painting on Hemp Canvas

Madonna With Angels French around 1410

Oldest Hemp Car

Fords bio car built in 1941. The body was mad of hemp and it also ran on hemp fuel.

Paper

Fangmatan Paper: Discovered in a tomb in Gansu Province, China, this tiny fragment dated to the early 2nd century BCE is the oldest surviving piece of paper in the world. It is a hemp-fiber scroll fragment featuring an inked topographic map. Recent discoveries may push this back by 300 years. The pulp papermaking process is ascribed to Cai Lun, a 2nd-century CE Han court eunuch, by pulping hemp rags and other scraps and drying.

Oldest Printed Book

The Pi Yu Jing (c. 256 CE): Widely recognized as one of the earliest surviving bound or folded book-like codices/manuscripts utilizing early Chinese rag-and-hemp paper blends. The Guttenberg Bible(1450s) was the first movable type printed book.

Largest Processing Plant

The Panda High Plains Hemp Gin in Wichita Falls, Texas, is the world's largest industrial hemp processing and decortication centers, designed to process 10 tons of hemp per hour on a 500,000-square-foot campus

Oldest Cannabis Fossil

The world's oldest known cannabis fossil is a 56-to-48-million-year-old leaf imprint (Cannabis oligocaenica) discovered near Eisleben in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

Oldest Cannabis Used for Medicine

800g found in The Yanghai Tombs near Turpan in the Gobi Desert, China, estimated to be 2700 years old. Found in a leather pouch with the body of a 45 year old Gushi shaman. Male plant had been separated and THC was found in the cured cannabis.

Oldest Word for Hemp

The Chinese character and word 麻 MA has been used to describe hemp since before written history (over 6,000+ years)

Stongest Fiber and Material

Hemp fiber is the strongest natural fiber on the planet and can also be made into the strongest material Graphene.

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