text: why is one of the most useful plants in the world illegal in the us (hemp/cannabis)? here has many uses....such as....  food, clothing, medicine, paper, plastic, and fuel.......and whats good about hemp made fuel is it burns clean ....  why is this useful plant illegal to us.....george washigton grew it...  to be truthful hemp is all male.....cannabis is the beautiful budded stuff the government can not control taxes on it. it can be homegrown just as moonshine use to be illegal in the old days but the gov't soon found a way to use that to there benefit and voila taxes appeared on it. the government can't keep an eye on all the farmers who grow a little for themselves so what else is there to do but consider it illegal.... notice how cocaine and heroin still seems to slip through the cracks of society that's because the big brother looks the other way sometimes...