This is another NPR story, so you have to have the ability to listen to streaming video - if you can't, you might be able to find the story on other news outlets. At any rate, what is the debate about legalizing hemp about? Listen and offer me your comments.
States Push to Legalize Hemp Cultivation
May 24, 2007 · The crop known as "industrial hemp" may look like marijuana, but it has little in common with its illegal cousin. The plant, a non-narcotic version of cannabis, is valued for its fiber and oil.
But there has been a virtual ban on farming industrial hemp in America for nearly 50 years, even though it is grown in other industrialized countries. Now a number of states, including North Dakota, are fighting to make hemp farming legal again.
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Commenting about Hemp cultivation...I think that if hemp is being used for productive purposes like its fiber and oil to better the economy and ultimately the lives of humans i think it should be made legal. its not putting anyones lives in harms way or bothering anyone and its not like its marajuana being smoked its being used for a good reason which sounds legit. Even if people tried to smoke industrial hemp its impossible to get high from it so it really doesn't pose any high risk problems for anyone. I think other states should follow the example led by North dakota and use natural resources with great abundance to help substitute for the more scarce resources we have a habit and using and wasting.
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