Hungry for hemp: Industry waits for green light
KEY agriculture sector names are lining up to back industrial hemp as a food crop, but advocates say access to the billion-dollar global industry is shrouded in bureaucracy.
Hemp fibre crops were legalised in NSW in 2008, but producers said the lack of legal approval for hemp seeds as food prevents the industry from gaining acceptance as a mainstream broadacre crop.
NSW Agriculture Minister Niall Blair and his Labor counterpart Mick Veitch last week hailed the potential of hemp and the cash bonanza it could bring to the state.
Currently, eating and selling hemp seeds as food is illegal only in Australia and New Zealand, due to fears over interference with drug testing devices, as well as legal and treaty issues.
The results of a bi-national investigation into hemp food could be as far as 18 months away.
Advocates also lament the public perception of hemp as a drug, despite...
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