Used to be one of the most common crops on the planet. Until of course of the cotton industry and the puritanical US government with its predilection for prohibition started sticking their beak in during the 1950's..learn your history
https://www.history.com/news/marijuana-criminalization-reefer-madness-history-flashback
Cannabis, also known as hemp or marijuana, evolved about 28 million years ago on the eastern Tibetan Plateau, according to a pollen study published in May. A close relative of the common hop found in beer, the plant still grows wild across Central Asia. More than 4000 years ago, Chinese farmers began to grow it for oil and for fiber to make rope, clothing, and paper.