We import 300 million dollars worth of hemp every year. Hemp is in many cars imported to this country, including plastics. Our farmers could benifit from the growing of Hemp, not just for products,,,,but FUEL. The price of oil will soon be over $100.00 a barrel. We are donating 100's of millions of dollars to south american countries, the middle east and anyone else, and has not made 1% difference in the drug war. The drug war has been the most costly war in history, and the cost keeps rising. We have the most people in prison for drugs than any other country in the world. If you tax, regulate the Hemp/Marijuana trade, the 100's of billions of tax  dollars taken in could go along way to help, medical, education, and arresting the ones who deserve to be locked up.