Obviously, when fighting the Nazi's - the US war-machine couldn't ignore the most useful plant in the world: hemp (or THC-less cannabis, to the layperson). Full of useful information the government has now chosen to ignore, such as "Hemps been used for thousands of years" - since around 6000 B.C. to be correct (predating alcohol by a couple thousand years).

More information on the U.S. Governments illogical & hypocritical war on cannabis can be found here in "Grass" - History of Marijuana Documentary.

There is a diffrence between hemp plants that the factories grow and what people smoke. A lot of rope is still made of hemp, I grew up on a farm where we had some wild hemp that would grow. but that speices of hemp has such low dossages of THC that you'd literally have to breathe in smoke from the burning plant for several hours just to even start feeling high. how is using a plant for something that is useful hypocritical? I think the problem is people used the stronger more potent species of hemp (actually the leaves not the whole plant) to get a high. Which dulls the senses and impars judgement. Hense a ban on use of the plant leaves for ingestion.

People don't smoke Hemp (I hope) - it contains no THC - and my point is that Hemp is a species of plant whose use out-weighs any other, and has been used for thousands of years longer by humans than - say, alcohol (the now socially acceptable substance). Plus, your question "how is using a plant for something that is useful hypocritical?" What about the varying legality of medical cannabis? What about our rights to grow and use a plant that we've used as a species for so long? Watch the linked video for the evidence of what I'm saying.

Industrial protectionism, DuPont lobbied the government to make Cannabis a Class 1 drug, a narcotic, in order to vilify by association hemp, and effect the transfer to polyester. In reality the THC levels in hemp are minute and have very little intoxicating effects. Genius isn't it?

Yay for dictating goverment policy to appease corporations!

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A new bill was just introduced to lift the ban on industrial help production...
http://stopthedrugwar.org/in_the_trenches/2009/apr/03/press_release_reps_barney_frank_

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