I never said they were potheads. And they were not the ones that made it illegal, so your strawman argument does not hold water. You can debate why it was made illegal all you want, but whatever reason that is, the founding fathers did not agree with it. They would not be carried away with this moral majority crap that goes on in our culture today. In fact, they were revolutionists who hated taxes and government control to the point that they lost their lives over their liberty. None of you are that extreme today, maybe except for our armed forces who live and die by that code, but I wouldn't even compare the rest of us to the type of caliber our founding fathers were.
It's not a cover crop, btw. Many many uses for hemp still apply. It's a very durable product that you can make clothing out of and they even built a bridge in France out of it. The seeds, btw can be eaten and are full of protein. It could make this nation rich if we cultivated and sold it like our founding fathers once did. Drafts of the Constitution were written on hemp paper, btw.
Observing several potheads over a lifetime is not a "strawman argument" either. In every case their lives are at best depressing, a far cry from what they had the potential of achieving, and in a few others they commit suicide or wound up dead. In one case, murder and suicide and three ruined lives of children.
Strawman argument? hardly.