A struggling world economy and a democrat in office here might mean it’s time for the U.S. to legalize non-psychoactive industrial hemp. A bill was voted down in 2007, but now that there’s actually a groundswell of support to legalize and tax the hell out of marijuana, the least they could do is legalize the ditch weed. Plenty of clothing makers in the outdoor industry have already adopted hemp (though it doesn’t help the industrial hemp cause when all of your stuff comes with rolling papers), but this bill would move cultivation of the weed into the U.S. and make it cheaper for outdoor companies in the U.S. to work with the material.

The contrarian’s candidate Ron Paul of Texas has introduced a bill called the Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2009. If you want all of your shirts to be made from the stuff, you can voice your opinion at Vote Hemp.

via The Cleanest Line

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