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    After Centuries, Hemp Makes A Comeback At George Washington's Home

    George Washington grew cannabis. Not the kind you toke, but the kind to make rope. Industrial hemp was returned to Mount Vernon this year to help cultivate a new image for the crop.
    by Brakkton Booker Aug 23, 2018 3 minutes
    Dean Norton, the director of horticulture at Mount Vernon, stands in front of the plot of hemp grown this year.

    For the first time in what historians say could be centuries, hemp has been grown and harvested at Mount Vernon, George Washington's historic estate.

    In the 1760s, Washington predicted that hemp could be a more profitable crop than tobacco and grew it across his farm. At the time, hemp was abundant in Virginia and elsewhere in the U.S.

    This summer, horticulturalists at Mount Vernon partnered with the University of Virginia and planted hemp once

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