Hemp-A Crop With No Future For

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this crop from being grown. Hemp cultivation cannot and should not be reintroduced in the United States. Hemp may have served a useful purpose in the past, but there is no place for it in today's society. Two major problems will arise from the cultivation of this plant. Law enforcement agencies will struggle to fight drug trafficking. Because fields of marijuana and hemp are almost completely indistinguishable, measures would have to be taken to protect the rights of those practicing hemp cultivation. This would slow down the efforts of those whose job it is to thwart domestic growth of the illegal drug. Also, allowing hemp cultivation would open a large market for hemp to be used in cooking products and foods. This would cause major problems for employers, in that drug testing would be rendered useless because hemp contains trace amounts of the psychoactive element found in marijuana. With these two major concerns, there is only one way to deal with the issue. The federal government ...

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crops. According to a recent report from State Legislatures, "Congress has to bail out American farmers. Grain prices plunged in 1999, well below the break-even point, as did the livestock market. Pigs were selling for as little as $40 apiece; wheat for less than $2.91 a bushel, driving farm losses" (8). Introducing hemp cultivation would only add competition to these crops, driving farm losses even higher. Advocates argue that farmers would prosper from cultivating hemp, but two separate studies strongly suggest that in the long run it would succumb to a fate similar to other crops. The Department of Business and Economics at the University of Kentucky conducted a study to determine the ...

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