The data online would suggest that it was the paper industry that originally campaigned to include hemp (the non-hallucinogenic strain of cannabis) in the drug laws, and mounted a propaganda campaign to support their effort. Until then, hemp was a major economic product, in fact Henry Ford built a prototype of an automobile from hemp plastic that outperformed his metal skinned autos many times over. -It became moot, when the source commodity for the amazing vehicle was made illegal, soon after. I begin to despair of a population the has so much information at its fingertips, yet still allows a greedy few to dictate our limits, our lifestyles, and our quality of life itself.