Hemp helped stop the bubonic plague

In general, the story goes something like this; before the coming of Hemp cloth (remembering that due to $$$ cotton was a luxury item), much of the cloth used in western Europe was made out of sheep’s woo. But unfortunately, due to the nature of wool, which shrinks when washed in warm water, few people bother to wash their cloths. [This time period has been called a thousand years without a bath for some reason] And needless to say peoples clothes soon became cesspools for fleas which in turn were acting as the vector that was spreading the plague. Now given the fact that when someone died of the plague, his/her cloths were inherited by the next of kin etc. . . .

Then along came Hemp Cloth that was even cheaper then wool and Hot water washable as well. In other words, “Industrial Hemp” of-and-by-itself, played some role in preventing the spread of the plague.

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Very interesting. I just learned something I did not know. Thanks for sharing.

Interesting story. I wonder if the study included an offset for all the mice and rats who ate and thrived on hemp seeds, thus helping spread the plague? Maybe such an offset would be small, considering whatever alternate crop was grown might be a similar food source.

How did they test that? Only killed some mice. It is not good.
But i hear that marijuana helps to bite cancer.