Why is Hemp (not cannabis) Illegal?

As someone in the Construction Industry, I wonder this myself. The uses of hemp in the building industry is very lucrative. As an additive for insulation, flooring materials, wallpaper, oil as an energy source, fabrics, geothermal textiles, rope, insulation....and the list goes on.

The story I heard in my circle is that a lobby group representing Dupont in the late sixties and seventies pushed the fact that people were being harmed by smoking marijuana to cover the fact that the wanted the hemp farmers out of the picture when they started production of carpeting and rope to monopolize the market...it worked.

edit: to other posters, hemp production in the United States is illegal, the products that you see on the market are imported from other countries.

I wish I could provide I link, but that is what I heard.

Because the synthetic manufacturers needed the economic boost banning hemp provided. When a product is no longer available at all? Something fills the gap that the need for material opens.

So, marijuana became the hook Hemp was banned on.

Look at DDT. Other less effective and more expensive products filled the void. The book Silent Spring--junk science--killed that. Results show the ban assured millions of Africans and thousands of Westerners die for the loss.

Look at R12 and R22. The Ozone Hole scare killed them. Amazingly the DuPont patents expired at the same time. R410 and R134a require far more costly equipment to use. Billions now denied access to inexpensive refrigeration (food preservation) and plentiful air conditioning.

See also the further restrictions demanded by enviro fascists. Who benefits? Who is harmed? .Why are Climate Change abatement efforts not concerned with helping humans, move, adjust and cope? Only on how to restrict their Liberties and economies?

In reply to the first two answers, yes, hemp is illegal. Hemp products can be imported, but hemp cannot be grown and produced in to products here.

Hemp is a large part of why marijuana is illegal. They could not come up with a reason that was valid to the public to make hemp illegal until they started associating marijuana with illegal immigration and minorities. It is illegal because it competes with textiles and paper.

this is all with regard to the money. Pot is rather consumer-friendly to enhance that *every person* can do it so as that they've not have been given any thank you to regulate the stuff for this reason can't tax it. Alcoholic beverage is likewise consumer-friendly to make *if* one has the kit to distill and the grain to cook and ferment. it is an consumer-friendly technique in spite of the shown fact that it takes particular kit so maximum do not mess with it. Pot starting to be takes in basic terms a flowerpot, some dirt, water, and a achievable seed. parent a thank you to regulate it so as that this is taxed and you will discover it on the marketplace at you corner liquor keep. Hemp should not be unlawful via fact it is composed of microscopic quantities of THC yet via fact it *looks* rather like hashish sativa, the numnuts of lawmakers have included hemp of their overbearing regulation. idiots.

Who told you hemp was illegal? There are uncountable hemp products in millions of stores all across the country.

Hemp is NOT illegal