Produces no psychoactive effects if smoked or ingested. Useful as medicine with a number of different applications. They maintain that efforts to legalize the cultivation of non-psychoactive industrial hemp is a thinly veiled plot to legalize marijuana. The loss of the right to grow industrial hemp and the propaganda claiming there is no difference between marijuana and industrial hemp deprive us of an incredibly diverse resource one that can have significant impact on restoring the health of the planet. The good news is that there is increasing momentum in the pro-hemp movement.
Several states are in the process of investigating the cultivation of industrial hemp.
This year, Vermont passed a bill calling for further research, and Wisconsin, Kentucky, and Hawaii are all checking into it. The Navajo Nation in Arizona is prepared to grow hemp, and has set aside several thousand acres for that purpose. Although a Colorado bill was recently defeated, primarily because of misleading testimony by law enforcement personnel, interest remains strong. The value of growing industrial hemp far surpasses the fear that this is all somehow a plot to legalize marijuana. We are seriously lagging by not supporting an active hemp industry, from cultivation to application.