There was still wild hemp growing from when farmers grew in So Wisconsin & No Illinois when I was growing up there in the `60 & `70s. My grandfather used to poi

There was still wild hemp growing from when farmers grew in So Wisconsin & No Illinois when I was growing up there in the `60 & `70s. My grandfather used to point it out as we drove on the rural farm roads. Nobody really paid any attention to it until guys started coming home from Vietnam and they'd point it out. When I was around 11-12 some friends and I got our hands on a paper grocery sack full of plants someone had found. No buds on them, just leaves and stalks. We probably smoked about half of it up before someone older told us it was "hemp" and wouldn't get us buzzed. It was about a week after that most everyone I knew had heard about us. Kids were getting "grounded" all over town just for knowing us. Soon after the local Ag Dept guys started campaigns to eradicate it and did a pretty good job of it. Probably sprayed tons of pesticides along miles and miles of those old farm roads to do it.