Marijuana cultivation is one of the largest cash crops in the US Maybe, but are Marijuana growers as dependent on their crop as Tobacco growers? Do they have a

Marijuana cultivation is one of the largest cash crops in the US Maybe, but are Marijuana growers as dependent on their crop as Tobacco growers? Do they have as powerful a lobby? Are they as heavily taxed? I've read that period documentation. "Hemp" is not marijuana as we know it today and it was grown for rope, not as a drug. It never did catch on though, the climate wasn't very good for it.