Since the 16th century, the maritime empires of Spain and England faced a major logistical problem to supply their merchant and military fleets with materials made of hemp. This difficulty increased as both empires were incorporating the new American territories into their possessions, because of the impact that this expansion had on the increase in the number of vessels needed to keep the parts of the empire connected. Since most of Europe’s hemp came from the Russian Empire, what to do when trade with the Baltic was interrupted by the war, and, in addition, in the American biota, hemp did not exist? This article uses a comparative methodology to focus on and analyse the measures implemented to achieve the objective of sufficiency of a strategic commodity such as hemp.

自16世纪以来，西班牙和英格兰的海上帝国面临着一个主要的后勤问题，即向其商船和军事舰队供应由大麻制成的材料。由于两个帝国都将新的美国领地纳入自己的领土，因此这一困难增加了，因为这种扩张对保持帝国各部分相连所需的船只数量增加产生了影响。由于欧洲的大多数大麻都来自俄罗斯帝国，因此与波罗的海的贸易因战争而中断，并且在美国生物区系中，大麻不存在怎么办？本文使用比较方法来重点研究和分析为实现战略商品（如大麻）的充足性而实施的措施。