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The problem is that it is not just tobacco that stands to lose, who stands to lose the most are the textile companies. It was they who lobbied to get it outlawed to begin with in the thirties after Popular Mechanics announced a machine that was going to help make paper with a fifth of the chemicals as the new paper bleaching process.
Kimberly Clark and Dow freaked and the next thing you know "Jazz blacks were going to smoke pot and rape your innocent white daughter"!!!
Before that jeans, rope, paper... hell the American Flags, bibles and all military canvas was made of hemp. Up through WWII if you were a farmer during a war and had X acers of land you HAD to grow textile grade hemp (which you can't get high off of but is still illegal... huh?).
Pharmaceuticals and Distilleries also, they all stand to lose billions.
It can be grown at home easily, it is indigenous, cannot be patented, you cannot OD on it and it does not kill brain cells or make you violent like alcohol, despite the urban myths.
The last thing these people want is for the common Joe and Jane to find this stuff out.
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