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Originally Posted by wodin
I heard that it was criminalized because DuPont had invented nylon, and lobbied to have it criminalize in order to prevent completion from hemp in the manufacture of mooring lines for ships.
This came from a high school history teacher who was old enough to have remembered it.
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Well, there are different species of hemp. The variety cultivated for industrial use, like rope making, is different from the kind grown for drug use. The difference is in the amount of THC each contains. (The industrial variety has miniscule amounts. Industrial use of hemp is still legal, though the US government isn't consistent about distinguishing between the varieties.
The North American Industrial Hemp Council maintains an informational site about it:
http://naihc.org/hemp_information/hemp_defined.html
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Dennis