They grow millions upon millions of tons of it each year and have an entire infrastructure of university and government research organizations built up around hemp cultivation.
The industrial products are never coming. Access by US domestic engineers and scientists to hemp on the order of days instead of weeks won’t change that.
There are billions of people on earth for which hemp cultivation has never been illegal, where they have grown it for centuries if not millennia.
To think that domestic production will spin up the release of industrial products can only lead to one of two conclusions:
1. There are no industrial uses of hemp to the degree that advocates claim. (The ludicrous ones) or,
2. Most of rest of the world, around 3 billion people, are all stupid and/or incompetent and only the smart and industrious US domestic engineers and scientists can figure out how to use hemp for things other than hippy bags.
I’ve been around the world. I’m going to go with 1.
I’m not saying hemp doesn’t have industrial uses.
I’m saying that the claims by some of its more fervent activists, on the order of “hemp fuel will power hemp steel-manufactured flying cars adorned in hemp faux “Rich Corinthian“ leather, that land of runways made of hempcrete and it’s all going to be carbon neural and organic because hemp violates the laws of thermodynamics and doesn’t require fertilizer or pesticide” are wrong.