Yeah the stupid DEA needs to recognize that just because something looks like a drug, doesn't mean it's a drug. Next thing we know they'll be barging into my home and confiscating my sugar for looking too much like cocaine. Oh wait, thanks to the Patriot Act they won't even have to barge in, they could just sneak in when I'm not home without a search warrant on the suspicion that I'm a terrorist. God I love living in the country of freedom and opportunity, unless you look suspicious in which case we may have to illegally search your belongings and hold you without trial.
From hemp.org:
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Hemp is the oldest and most resourceful crop sown. Hemp has been cultivated for over 12,000 years and all archaeologists agree it was among the first, and may be the first, crop purposely grown. The Latin name for hemp is cannabis sativa. Sativa means "useful" in Latin, and was given to only the most resourceful staple crops. Paper was invented from hemp in China over 2,000 years ago and a US Department of Agriculture report, Bulletin No. 404, "Hemp Hurds as a Paper-Making Material," states that a waste product from producing rope, linen, lace and fine paper, this hitherto waste product, the hemp hurd, or the core of the hempstalk, produces more than 4 times more paper than trees per land area cultivated. The hempseed is higher than any other plant source for protein (though soybeans have more protein, hempseed is more readily usable by people). Hempseed, with 30 percent oil by weight, has an oil that is high in the good cholesterol, GLA, or gamma lineolic acids, and raw hempseed oil can also be used without any modifications to power existing diesel engines. Thousands of new natural food products are being made with hempseed too, everything from chips and pretzels to cheese and milk. >>