Posted on 22nd Feb 2012 @ 3:37 AM

Ron Paul championed industrial hemp and property rights Monday at a North Dakota campaign stop that was attended by hundreds of supporters. Dr. Paul espoused his long held stance against the federal governments ban on hemp cultivation, arguing for hemps remarkable resourcefulness and potential as a legal crop. Currently, the United States is the only industrialized nation in the world that has criminalized the growing of hemp. North Dakotans have an agricultural history that understands the benefits that the hemp plant can offer. In 2006, they became the first state to legalize the cultivation of hemp, but DEA and federal strangleholds have prevented the legislations effectiveness. Dr. Paul himself put it best to the receptive crowd: "there is no reason that in a free society people shouldn't be allowed to grow hemp. It's a good product."

To learn more about Ron Paul's position on hemp, check out this video;