Reply #1: Hemp, Hemp, Hooray [View All]

[MagickMuffin]

It only makes sense that we would go back to our roots. Hemp was used in this country exclusively until the petro market, the paper market, and the Harry Anslinger started their campaign to destroy the hemp market altogether.

It was used for clothing, paint, paper, even Henry Ford made a vehicle out a hemp.

Go Cali :applause: lead the way....

But even if the measure becomes law, farmers would still face hurdles to cultivate the plant because hemp contains trace amounts of a banned substance and may still fall under federal anti-drug rules.
Some critics were concerned that allowing hemp to be grown could be the first step to permitting pot.

"You pass industrial hemp today and then something else and then something else," Republican Assemblyman Dennis Mountjoy said. "And then at some point you will get legalized marijuana."

The Drug Enforcement Administration had classified hemp as a controlled substance because an average plant contains small amounts of tetrahydrocannabinols, or THC, the same drug that gives marijuana its intoxicating effect.
Processed hemp imported from other countries is sold throughout the United States for manufacturing products. A hemp trade group estimated the annual retail market in the U.S. at $270 million.