No we cant assume thats not factual is it Indian hemp refers to cannabis and Gorge Washington was growing indicas it says it below he and others at the time traveled collected seed from other country's traded seed with other growers so they grew not just one line of seed.
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Yes like i stated Washington knew his crop. He wrote a letter to the King in the 1760s? describing how the Ohio River Valley was one of the most fertile plots of land for growing hemp, and even today, that area of western Appalachia grows enough to rival Cali in numbers.
The note on Washington and Indian Hemp is some letters he wrote to I think Franklin Pierece, He kept on asking for Indian hemp seed, as he stated, "I know its better then the others"
When did the British first get to Afghanistan? mid 1800s?
http://www.jstor.org/pss/4122711
Cannabinoids are important chemotaxonomic markers unique to Cannabis. Previous studies show that a plant’s dry-weight ratio of
D9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) to cannabidiol (CBD) can be assigned to one of three chemotypes and that alleles BD and BT encode
alloenzymes that catalyze the conversion of cannabigerol to CBD and THC, respectively. In the present study, the frequencies of BD
and BT in sample populations of 157 Cannabis accessions were determined from CBD and THC banding patterns, visualized by starch
gel electrophoresis. Gas chromatography was used to quantify cannabinoid levels in 96 of the same accessions. The data were
interpreted with respect to previous analyses of genetic and morphological variation in the same germplasm collection. Two biotypes
(infraspecific taxa of unassigned rank) of C. sativa and four biotypes of C. indica were recognized. Mean THC levels and the frequency
of BT were significantly higher in C. indica than C. sativa. The proportion of high THC/CBD chemotype plants in most accessions
assigned to C. sativa was ,25% and in most accessions assigned to C. indica was .25%.
Plants with relatively high levels of
tetrahydrocannabivarin (THCV) and/or cannabidivarin (CBDV) were common only in C. indica. This study supports a two-species
concept of Cannabis.
Allozyme analysis revealed that the hemp accessions in the
germplasm collection under study derive from both the C. sativa
and C. indica gene pools (Hillig, 2004). Hemp landraces
from Europe, Asia Minor, and central Asia are assigned to the
hemp biotype of C. sativa and hemp landraces from southern
and eastern Asia are assigned to the hemp biotype of C. indica.
Accessions of wild or naturalized populations from eastern
Europe and the northwest Himalayas are assigned to the feral
biotypes of C. sativa and C. indica, respectively. Ruderal accessions
from central Asia are tentatively assigned to C. ruderalis,
although few morphological differences were found between
these accessions and those assigned to the feral biotype
of C. sativa (Hillig, in press). Plants of accessions cultivated
for drug production were characterized as having either narrow
lanceolate or linear-lanceolate leaflets or wide oblanceolate
leaflets. Both biotypes derive from the C. indica gene pool
and are morphologically distinct (Anderson, 1980; Hillig,
2004, in press).