Yeah, you're right. Those stories about Henry Ford's obsession with hemp-based automobiles are all just made-up fiction...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rgDyEO_8cI
And so are the ones about Hemp being seen by Scientific American magazine (the year before cannabis was made illegal in 1938) the "BILLION Dollar Crop"...
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/hemp/history/newbilln.htm
Yeah, because they knew everything there was to know in 1938... I laugh in your face. Henry Ford was a guy who refused to make a car besides the Model T for years in spite of sliding sales. It drove his own son Edsel to the nut house. Henry Ford was no better a beacon of lucidity than Jesse Ventura.
Yeah, Strathmore, the largest art-paper manufacturer in the world is completely delusional:
http://www.jerrysartarama.com/disco...oglebase&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=shopping
As are the dozens of printmakers, papermakers, artists, and bookbinders that I PERSONALLY know, who swear by the superiority of hemp-based papers in EVERY application--from it's ability to take ink and pigments, to it's durability and longevity, to it's ability to be moulded into shapes, forms, textures, and thinnesses that are impossible to achieve with woodp pulp based paper, or nearly any other plant-fiber...
And I guess the folks over at "GreenBoatSupply.com" are completely delusional offering a mess of hemp products from line to placemats...
http://search.greenboatstuff.com/?keywords=hemp+rope&vwcatalog=yhst-31755506130963
So what? Has is it occured to you that some of this crap has become fashionable? Just like wind and solar power is pushed on people thanks to algore's global warming acolytes, being "green" is trendy. That alone creates a demand for stuff even if it's more expensive or down right useless.
Yeah, you are right. There is simply NO rational reason to use hemp.
Except for the fact that is produces three times the usable fiber per acre that any other fiber plant does.
Or that it produces nearly 5 times the methanol per acre that we can get from corn.
Or the fact that there has NEVER been a single "overdose" recorded in the history of mankind from "marijuana".
Or the fact that hemp ropes and lines are naturally resistant to rotting in salt-water applications, and that is is only surpassed in abrasion-resistance and tensile strength by kevlar-reinforced synthetic line.
Or that everything you think you "know" about hemp is wrong, and you allow your painful ignorance to filter out primary source references like peer-reviewed journals, Congressional Records, and historic documents and Statutes to be dismissed as "fantasy" rather than merely jettisoning your faulty programming in light of the cognitive dissonance created by historical facts.
I pity you...