Hemptech In March, delegates at the California Democratic Party convention endorsed the legalization of industrial hemp with an 80 percent majority. California farmers will be able to introduce industrial hemp into next spring's planting, Clauder predicts. Cultivating Hemp Could be a Gold Mine for California. Unfortunately, it's Still Illegal.
Entire stores are devoted to selling clothes from it.
Woody Harrelson lives and, literally, breathes it. Hemp, it seems, is suddenly everywhere. Cultivated for centuries, hemp was used to make the rope for Christopher Columbus's ships and was grown by the founding fathers. Banned in the U.S. since 1937, the hardy plant stigmatized for its close ties to marijuana is staging a comeback as a legitimate commodity. Sam H. Clauder seems an unlikely torchbearer for Cannabis sativa.