Interesting that KY and NC seemed to have had more success investigating hemp than the much more progressive VT.
> Historically, hemp production had made up a significant portion of antebellum Kentucky's economy. Before the American Civil War, many slaves worked on plantations producing hemp.
> Hemp was used extensively by the United States during World War II to make uniforms, canvas, and rope. Much of the hemp used was cultivated in Kentucky and the Midwest.
Tobacco looks very similar to marijuana and many farmers would have small bits of marijuana dispersed amongst several hundred acres of Tobacco.
Source: born and raised in KY. Left to join the US Army and then work in LA and Chicago as a software engineer.
Hemp has the same kind of high-income-to-low-work cred as tobacco, but times 20!
They also still have all the equipment necessary for processing hemp as it is similar to processing tobacco.