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So hemp products such as protein powder weren't legal in the U.S. before?

My mom in California has been buying hemp seeds for the past couple years at the local health food store, so I'd say no.

California doesn't care about what's legal or not, they've legalized selling weed which is still super illegal (federally, which is what we're talking about).

Exactly. While someone in CA was probably able to access hemp items (and straight out pot items obviously) it was still illegal to produce. That doesn't mean you couldn't obtain it through mail orders or lax enforcement, but I mean I can go buy heroin from a guy I know, that doesn't make it legal.

I wouldn't say that California's legalization of marijuana sales indicates a general disregard for the law in California, considering multiple states across the country have the same laws and California wasn't even the first to do it.

I worked at an animal feed store in the early 90's while in school.

We would receive shipments of big bags of hemp seed, like 25 pound clear bags of pot seeds (which I always laughed about) for birds, so apparently hemp seed was legal at that point at least.

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