[rawcatslyentist]

In Colonial times, before the steam age. It was ILLEGAL to NOT grow hemp!

You had a farm, you HAD to grow a percentage of it in hemp. It was the law!

[Rashputin]

I remember reading that when I was a kid back in the fifties. I don't recall the novel but something about early US when the Western frontier was Ohio and Kentucky.

I actually never understood why they outlawed growing hemp because it seemed to have a variety of uses.

Why is it outlawed anyway ? Do they need to grow what's used for pot to get the hemp every year ?