Who banned the prodution of GOODS being made from hemp in America?

Question

It is such a good cloth for textile use and I don't know why we can't use it nowadays, eg: ropes,sails, clothes like they used to ?

Answer 1

San Jose Mercury News
By David Kravets, Associated Press
September 28, 2004
DEA's Failed Battle to Ban Hemp Food is Over, Attorneys Say

SAN FRANCISCO — Three years after the Bush administration tried to ban food products made with hemp, the government surrendered that front in the war on drugs, attorneys for the hemp industry said Monday.

The Justice Department, these attorneys say, will not challenge a federal appeals court ruling that overturned the ban — a victory for more than 200 companies that make such things as energy bars, waffles, milk-free cheese and veggie burgers with the plant that contains only trace amounts of THC, the key ingredient in marijuana.

Monday night was the deadline for the government to challenge a federal appellate court's February decision to the Supreme Court that the United States cannot ban the domestic sale of hemp foods.


On March 21, 2003, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) announced its final rule on hemp food products. This rule purports to ban the sale of all hemp food products on April 21, 2003.