Due to recent history with opium I don’t see recreational usage happening any time soon, in that context I totally sympathize.

Hopefully the world as a whole including China will expand growing areas for industrial hemp due to its practical uses, regulate it as much as required for social-historic sensibility, low THC cultivars, etc. For example, hemp paper has less water consumption than tree paper, not to mention a few months vs a few yrs. There’s also other building and packing materials made from hemp which will be useful in getting away from plastics and other petrol products, even og stuff like canvas is good. Won’t save us from ourselves ofc, but its a tool we have.