Lesson two, the deregulation of hemp and CBD. Well cannabis has been a part of human civilization since its beginning. Its regulation began in the late 1800s. The primary uses for cannabis were for medicines, paper, rope and cloth. As a medicine, it was added to the US pharmacopoeia in 1850. At that time, cannabis oil was prescribed as a tincture for everything from cramps to headaches, digestive problems, vomiting, insomnia, and chronic seizures.

During that time, cotton was America's leading export. Due to the invention of the cotton gin, which made it easy to separate the seeds in husk from the cotton fiber and equivalent hemp processing machine had not been invented. So slaves were the only cost effective way to separate the hemp fiber from the pulpy core that was used to make cloth. When slavery ended. It was cheaper to make cloth from cotton than from him. Up.

At the same time, cotton was king, paper makers had found an economical way to convert trees to pulp to make paper. It was cheaper to pay laborers to chop down trees than to process HAMP. There was an abundance of trees in the continental United States to make paper from so hemp was not a profitable commodity. By the turn of the century, the federal government assumed responsibility for legislative control of medicine and cannabis became a target during the mid 1920s. A couple of horrible crimes were attributed to Mexicans who used marijuana, and that was enough to trigger a media blitz of yellow journalism in the Hearst newspapers that raged in the late 1920s and 30s. This wave of terror created pressure to Amanda federal law which controlled similar substances resulting in the marijuana Tax Act of 1937.

This act levied a $100 an ounce tax on cannabis for medicinal and Non medicinal use on the hemp front machines had finally been developed to quickly process hemp so it can be used to produce textiles, paper and fuel. That the manufacturer of cotton for cloth and trees for paper was so firmly entrenched that it was too late. Hamp was assumed to be marijuana and all cannabis was criminalized throughout most of the Western world. In 1970, with the passage of the Controlled Substances Act, marijuana was classified by Congress as a schedule one drug with a high potential for abuse. It took almost 50 years to recognize hemp and CBD as valuable and safe. In 2018, the US government deregulated hemp and CBD and removed it from the schedule one classification, making hemp a viable commodity for industrial and dietary supplement use.

Hemp is now regulated by the USDA camp and marijuana are under the jurisdiction of states as well. As all states come into line we will see more conformity throughout the United States for hemp and CBD