This is true...Hemp is/was the competition and competition to the boys on Wall Street is a SIN....Industrial Hemp is a precious commodity that can used for for just about anything; it can get us off plastics and stop the wholesale killing of old-growth forestry. Hemp grows just about anywhere within weeks, not years.
The confusion around hemp usually stems around the fact that the Male and female plants differ in uses and properties. Both would be a boon to the economy. After all, most of our industry has been shipped over seas -
we might as well get the economic benefit AND get stoned.
I for one wouldn't mind seeing more people ingesting various forms of THC in moderation than cook their brains, liver, kidneys and pancreas on Alcohol.
Besides, we could all use a good laugh...