Colorado farmers bringing in nation’s first hemp harvest since the 1950s

At the risk of sounding like an insufferable hippy, it is absolutely ridiculous that hemp has been banned. Even if you consider pot to be harmful, it is stupidly obvious that hemp is harmless.

On another note, the headline of the article gives the wrong impression: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_White_Plume

On yet another note: hemp has been largely surpassed by other products and isn't really a big cash crop even in countries were it has remained legal. It may make a comeback with a nontraditional demographic, much like PBR, but that remains to be seen.

What is ridiculous is that industrial hemp is grown in Canada and then imported by American car companies, to use in the production of certain car parts.

So Ford (for example) can import industrial hemp to the USA, but it was not allowed to be grown in the USA...

I didn't know growing industrial hemp was also outlawed in the US.