text: why do you think countries prevent the cultivation of hemp and at the same time alcohol and tobacco are legal?   well hemp was and still is a useful material. leaving aside the drug end of it , it was our rope and is still the step before linen, but the record shows where any natural plant or material  can be  out smarted by technical  ie nylon polypropylene's  etc  and big business takes control , well the only thing they could say bad about hemp was its drug use, but the use of  the same drug was  considered a medical treatment  till a new way of making all the byproducts from same plant was discovered the drug end of it was used to tarnish a very natural  product, and the 1000 uses that where not drug related  where ignored  buts that's big business. and the way of the world for now it shall return  as it was said  nature finds a way