Who says the 9th Circuit is all bad?
 

http://www.reason.com/hod/vv092404.shtml

Hemp Industry on Fire
Exploding marketplace stoked by DEA lawsuit

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But not all hemp entrepreneurs were ready to comply. The Hemp Industries Association (HIA) took the DEA to court, and on February 6, 2004 the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled unanimously in favor of the HIA. The Reagan-appointed Judge Alex Kozinski ruled in favor of the hemp industry, and expressed concern for a common breakfast food to DEA attorney Daniel Dormont during the trial: "Can you tell me how you are going to save the [poppy seed] bagel?"
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The government actually encouraged farmers to grow hemp during the second world war. My grandparents, being good patriotic Americans, turned over one of their tobacco fields to hemp production in that era. Later on they let the field go back to pasture for their small herd of dairy cows. Students from Eastern Kentucky University used to jump the fence around the pasture in hopes of finding the stray hemp plant still growing here and there. It irritated my grandfather no end because the kids would upset the dairy cows and their milk production went down. I suppose the milk from those cows got everyone in Richmond, Kentucky high. :rolleyes:

No, the kids were just stu..., um, kids.