If the American government will not let hemp be grown while its cousin "marijuana" is illegal - the only option is to legalize marijuana. As it stands now, cannabis is a schedule 1 controlled substance - reserved for "drugs" that have no currently accepted medical uses and are highly dangerous and/or addictive. Neither of these reasons apply to smokable cannabis and are even more ridiculous when applied to hemp. Attempts at rescheduling marijuana into a lower schedule - (cocaine is schedule 2, some heroin derivatives also in 2 because of medical use) by NORML have failed - as resistance from Congress and NIDA, DEA, etc... get in the way of sound science and practical solutions. So now we import our hemp products, oils, foods, clothes, etc... from Canada and other countries. This is simply retarded as we have farmers in the Dakotas suing the federal government for the right to grow it themselves (they are presently losing). Furthermore, people with legitimate medical conditions face the prospect of prison and confiscation of property for attempting to alleviate suffering in States that have legalized medical cannabis. This is simply unacceptable. People have died and will die if this continues.

If the government does not respond to legitimate petitions - backed by sound science - to reschedule marijuana and to completely remove feral hemp (that you cannot get high from no matter how hard you try) from the drug schedules we need to just simply overgrow the government. Hemp can literally grow almost everywhere, requires no pesticides or insecticides, and if you aren't planning on cultivating it you don't ever have to do anything. Just spread the hemp* seeds. Everywhere.

According to research done by NORML - a majority of the major marijuana seizures reported by the DEA or multi-jurisdictional drug task forces is ditchweed (i.e, hemp). Since it grows wild on its own - the DEA helicopters spot patches of it from the air and then claim to make some huge accomplishment when they cut it all down and burn it. They claim to seize a large field of "marijuana" so as to pretend they are doing something about supply and to protect the kiddies. However, its likely they claim to have seized "100,000's" of plants in any given year to justify their own budgets and to buy more fancy helicopters and what not. Its the biggest scam and everybody but your Congressperson knows it. (Or they know it but refuse to voice an opinion because they don't want to be seen soft on drugs or weak on crime). Marijuana availability for high school seniors - as reported by our own government - is no different today than it was in 1975. All the billions spent, lives wasted, prisons filled, has not done a single f-in thing. There is a reason it is easier to get marijuana in high school than alcohol for most kids - and its time we accept the fact that legalization, regulation and taxation (not decriminalization- which means its still illegal but the punishment is lessened) is the only way to go.

The current war on marijuana is the quintessential definition of insanity: doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. There will always be marijuana - it aint going away. 30-50 million of our countrymen have used it in one form or another and no amount of reasoning will ever convince me (nor should it convince you) that those tens of millions of normal Americans are criminals. The government declared War on a plant. This is a ruse. The war is on you. On your freedom. On your liberty. On your right to make, buy and use sustainable products that are safer for the environment that you will one day leave for your kids and grandchildren. On your right to ingest a substance that makes you feel better and perhaps live a little longer when you are dying and in pain. And it is done at the behest of large corporations who need hemp to remain illegal and large government bureaucracies who have to justify their bloated budgets of our hard earned tax money and piss for brains legislators needing a campaign slogan to get re-elected and to appropriate that money. Fight back! Overgrow the government. Embarrass them. Make legislators question the DEA on how they spent 10 billion dollars in the last fiscal year to eradicate this plant and there is hemp still growing everywhere. Including their own backyards and along the road to their homes. Every other option has failed.

*Note hemp seeds not cannabis sativa seeds.