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[–] Alias_Unknown 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Well that is quite interesting.

Two years later they issued a similar stamp law in regards to hemp. Only the prices that came with it were outrageous, most poor rural farmers couldn't keep a profit while paying the taxes.

The real fun but is that you had to have the stamps to have the hemp, but you had to bring the hemp to get the stamps. So the first man, Samuel Caldwell or something like that, went to jail for trying to get his hemp stamps.