I have always wondered why--if hemp is really such a miraculous do-it-all solution for today's problems--other countries aren't developing it. After all, even pot is legal in the Netherlands. Surely it would be no problem for them to grow or import all the hemp they need, make petroleum products obsolete, and become the new Saudi Arabia. They would surely be rolling in "hemp dollars". But nobody is doing that even in places where it would be legal. Something just doesn't add up somewhere.