text: High Hopes for Hemp - Alternet.org
  High Hopes for Hemp /
  Then on October 9 this year, the DEA announced new rules that effectively ban the consumption of foods containing any THC -- no matter how miniscule an amount.
  In July -- for the second year in a row -- the War on Drugs hit the Sioux in South Dakota, when federal agents hauled away three acres of industrial hemp. Invoking tribal sovereignty, the Oglala Sioux maintain their right to cultivate whatever crops they choose, according to an 1868 treaty with the U.S. government and under a 1998 tribal ordinance. The Sioux are counting on income from industrial hemp to bolster an area that has an unemployment rate greater than 80 percent -- the economically poorest area in the United States.