Washing your hands? Hemp soap already exists, it’s not psycho-active. Holding marijuana doesn’t get you high. If cannabis extract is applied as a topical ointment, it provides an anelgesic/numbing effect; it doesn’t get anyone high. Topical applications are useful for bites, burn, etc. I’m not saying an intoxicating surface-application delivery system can’t be engineered by scientists, but why would anyone assume drug companies would use marijuana to make an intoxicating soap?

I haven’t found a bookstore yet that carries pro-hemp books. They do however carry anti-marijuana books, and surprisingly pro-marijuana magazines; but no pro-hemp magazines. This plant has been revolutionary to every culture that embraces it. In the 1700s it was law that those with land must grow cannabis/hemp. Now it’s all about the $, why grow it when you can grab up investor $$ and synthetically engineer it.

Just grow it already, we can use it for ethanol– it’ll give us back our corn. We can use it for paper, cut down less trees– cheaper lumber, cheaper paper, healthier Earth. An extra cash crop for farmers, plus it grows on marginal land– so it doesn’t have to take the place of other crops, it can be grown in all 50 states (some states year-round). Let’s stop wasting money figuring out how to engineer it, and just grow the faithful plant that’s been around as long as humans have. Plants don’t hurt people– people hurt people.