A group of farmers and entrepreneurs fed up with the federal choke hold on hemp were arrested this morning after attempting to plant industrial hemp seeds on the front lawn of the DEA headquarters in Arlington, VA. Somehow, the plant—that doesn’t get you high whatsoever—was banned under the Controlled Substance Act of 1970 and according to a press release via Vote Hemp the agency still “refuses to distinguish non-drug industrial hemp cultivars grown for millennia for seed and fiber and has unconstitutionally blocked all state hemp programs…”

One pissed off farmer notes how unpatriotic it is for the government to restrict such a common sense crop: “In recent years there has been strong growth in demand for hemp in the U.S., but the American farmer is being left out while Canadian, European and Chinese farmers fill the void created by outdated federal policy.” |Reuters|

Photo via Vote Hemp