Hemp is just too expensive, said Zanya Boisseneault, a clerk at the store. Some people still buy hemp, said Aaron Jule, a sales person and the son of the owner of Watermonkey, a clothing and accessory shop in Portsmouth. Watermokey sells the hemp frisbees and sacks and even a hemp beer-brewing kit. The brew kit was supplied by Turning Ground, a company owned by his brother, Ethan Jule, before Ethan sold it to Fremont Hemp out of Seattle several months ago. Unlike the Hemporium, Watermonkey never tried to make it on hemp alone.
Some people just don t want to pay twice as much for a pair of jeans.
Some people will. Hemp s relationship with marijuana hurts and helps it. We don t have enough people pushing industrial hemp that aren t partaking of the other types. Congress never passed a law classifying industrial hemp as a controlled substance. But DEA, and thus far the courts, do classify it as a type of marijuana, which is a drug.