"The use of hemp can be traced back to 8000 BC in the Middle East and China where the fibre was used for textiles, ropes, and fishnets, the oil for cosmetic purposes and the seeds for food. Hemp has been used to produce high quality paper for centuries. Today, hemp fibres are woven into clothing, cordage, curtains, rope, carpets, burlap, sacking, shoes, towels, and heavy-duty tarpaulins. The seeds are used for health foods, edible oils, biodiesel oil, paint, soaps, cosmetics, cremes, and a host of other products."​

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​Due to the way that it helps to rebuild the soil hemp is  extremely effective at sequestering carbon dioxide and increasing the amount of oxygen in the  air. "We’ve all read the air. depressing statistics about the fashion industry being responsible for colossal levels of waste and damage to our rivers, oceans and atmosphere. It is estimated that a truck full of clothing waste is being burned or landfilled every second!"- https://www.vogue.in/content/can-hemp-be-the-textile-of-the-future/ 

Absurd and untenable, has become the government's position on cannabis that more and more people are beginning to suspect that the prohibition is not based on the presumed dangers of it’s chemical compounds but on the tremendous potential that hemp has always shown history for industrial production. 

 One of the US presidents who were the head of cotton industries, his nephew was the head of the narcotics and dangerous drug administration at the time and they got together, they had emergeny meetings based on eradicating hemp preserve as an actual fiber to used and they went out of their way to promote- they started off commissioned films like ‘reefer madness’ and other dramatic proper gander adverts to scare the world.  
 

The whole concept of hemp had to be for them in their eyes to protect their billion-dollar industries, so hemp had to be squashed and thy went about it systematically they used the media, they utilized the politicians and politics itself as well as tools to make sure the hemp industry was closed down.  
 
There is a lot of fear about hemp, because of the plant it comes from, political correctness dominated the attitude to hemp, so that people did pretty much marginalised it. Which is a great shame because hemp has nothing to do with smoking cannabis.   

Hemp has been misconstrued as hippies/ surfers. where there was a strong judgement and stigma against hemp.  

The judgment that surfers and hippies were smoking cannabis all day, and because they wore fabric made from hemp it is where the hemp stigma got suppressed.
  

Hemp production was banned throughout the United States in 1937, with the passing of the Marihuana Tax Act.