From the very beginning Hemp was always the target not cannabis. Does that sound crazy, not if you follow the Money. Hemp makes a better quality of paper from a quickly renewable resource. SO if you're in the paper from trees industry you might see that as a threat . Hemp makes a longer lasting cloth from a quickly renewable resource. SO if you're in the cotton industry you might see that as a threat . Hemp seeds makes a better quality of oil from a quickly renewable resource.SO if you're a big oil company you might see that as a threat. 

There you have three large Special Interest Groups. This is what they do. I'll let you figure out Who let them do this and has allowed it to continue for 75 years.

Hemp is amazing. 75 years of innovation and productivity crushed under the heal of Special Interest Groups.