Last night’s presidential debate was the third and final didn’t attract as much attention as the previous did. As MarketWatch notes, ratings were down 8% from the last one. One aspect of the debate that went completely unnoticed, however, was the history of its locations.
Last night’s presidential debate was held at Hofstra University, which is located in Hempstead, New York, a town whose name isn’t all that incidental. As the Cannabis TV Vlog points out, this is:
where just a few generations ago, huge fields of Cannabis Hemp waved in the wind. Especially important during WW2, when the military contracted for hemp to make parachute webbing, rope and canvas, industrial hemp had been established as an essential crop in Hempstead since Colonial times.
Although the blog is focused more on marijuana than industrial hemp, the post carries on into an overview of all the ways in which industrial hemp can solve many of our economic and environmental problems, including some recent news items that are noteworthy. Cannabis TV also has a YouTube channel which might be of interest. Again, much of the content there is also more geared toward marijuana decriminalization rather than industrial hemp, but there are still a few clips worth viewing.
And here’s a map of Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York,and the surrounding area.