Above, Hemp for Victory, a 13- minute film produced by the US government in the 1940s which urged citizens to grow hemp during the war. During this earlier era of American crisis, farmers and 4-H clubs were encouraged to cultivate industrial hemp, the non-intoxicating counsin of what I like to call cannabis gettabis stonerus. And now, during our current American crisis, the same "non-drug" cannabis strain is the subject of a new bill put forth by Congressmen Ron Paul and Barney Frank.
They and eigh cosponsors, both Republican and Democrat, hope to legalize the plant so American farmers can begin supplying fibers for a wide array of products, with the overreaching goal of opening a new sector in American agriculture.
