I wasn’t aware of that; I’m going from local knowledge. Some tobacco farmers here in Canada switched to hemp and their biggest problem was crop theft by idiots who thought it was marijuana. Many found it wasn’t worth it due to security costs. There are shops here in Toronto that specialize in hemp products.
Hemp is marijuana or maybe it’s more accurate to say that marijuana is hemp. It’s the same plant but it doesn’t have as high of a THC content when it’s grown for fiber or seed. The fiber and sterilized seed has been legal to import to the U.S. for a long time if not always. But thanks to Fed law it can’t be grown here for those completely benign uses.