The topic was HEMP, NOT medical marijuana. Long list of commercial uses for hemp. Right now two companies are producing absorbent material for oil companies to use on oil spills in the ocean. beltrami trapper is correct. Before the government stopped legal production of hemp in the US it was grown all over the Midwest. Remnants are everywhere, but it has such a low THC content that it should not be confused with the legalized marijuana industry. Until recently it was illegal to own anything but sterile hemp seeds in the US.

I've been fighting some mice and rats love to pack the seed around and hide it, to start it some where else. A lot was grown here for the war effort back before synthetic materials were available.

I agree %100

How did this thread about Hemp turn into a thread about Marijuana? They are 2 different things.

Maybe, but back then the campaign against marijuana was aimed at getting hemp out of the paper and rope industries.

I looked up the scientific names once before and they both had the same name, of course science changes as the money does.

Doesn't the federal law against marijuana also include hemp? I don't think farmers can grow hemp because of the same laws that prohibit smoking it. If I remember correctly, a Native American in one of the western states was prohibited from growing hemp on his farm, on the reservation, because of the federal prohibition. There is an attempt in MO, at this time, to pass laws allowing the growing of hemp for industrial uses.

It used to be said that the big paper company and the inventor of nylon campaigned against hemp for monetary reasons and marijuana was included in the ban of hemp.

The hemp that is grown around here will not get you high. They probably used the getting high thing to get the Hemp phased out. Actually they say that the industrial hemp will pollinate with the illegal marijuana that is grown and weaken it to an undesirable level.

Do any of your guys drink on their time off from work?

Mike(quote).

None of the guys I work with drink.

I think by law you are supposed to destroy "ditch weed" wherever it grows. I don't around my place.
I assume this is a left over from the hemp crop days.

I was taking Cbd oil to see if it would help me . I don’t believe it’s a cure all for me but it did stop my blood sugar from running away on me , it helped my eyes when blood sugar was high . Made me less mean and gave me more clear thinking , I believe it was reducing the inflammation in my brain from my diabetes .

Sounds like a dictatorship to me
Supposed to be a free country

I was told here in Iowa that back in WW2 that the fed gave permits to grow hemp. For the uses that was stated. It still grow wild out here also like stated. but there is a different in hemp and pot. One has even number of leaf that is hemp and the odd number is pot.Too many can not tell the different type. I know sheep love it.I was doing a problem of coyote for a guy that had sheep years ago and he had a area full of wild pot and some sweet pea. and the sheep ate all the wild pot that was there and left all the sweet pea and grass alone.I was funny to see. Yes wild pot is low grade. As someone stated that the cross of hemp and wild pot down grade it.That is true.That is why it is call ditch weed out here also.if they worry about some smoke it .I was told years ago that some kids had smoke corn silk.

Growing hemp was necessary during the war. Hemp rope was used by the ton. Just watched a video on this. I have no use for pot, but hemp isn't the same thing.

My wife has MS and she has used CBD oil. It helps with muscles pains. She even got me to try it when I strained my back. It was surprising how fast the pain decreased in my muscles. I used it two days, and haven't tried it since. Haven't even thought about it actually til I read your post. There's tons of products that can be made from Hemp or Marijuana. Will people abuse it. Sure. I'd almost be willing to bet that, despite laws prohibiting it's use, people misuse marijuana anyways. Probably costs us a boat load of money trying to stop this prohibited use too. Whereas it could be taxed, and it could be the first time the "dead-beat pot-head" pays taxes!