Australia: Hemp is healthy: 'the nanny state is not'
Northern rivers farmers are being urged to tap into a billion-dollar global hemp food market by getting on board a campaign to make it legal for them to grow and sell hemp seed for food products.
The Greens this week launched its Hemp is Healthy campaign, following the packed-out Hemp, Health and Innovation Symposium in Sydney last Saturday.
The symposium was addressed by experts on medical cannabis and hemp food and featured hemp growers and activists from Nimbin, who took more than 100 low-THC cannabis plants and an inflatable medicinal cannabis tincture bottle there.
NSW Greens agriculture spokesperson Jeremy Buckingham said there was a definte ‘buzz’ at the festival which he and other politicians attended because ‘prospects for hemp and medical cannabis are looking up, with the stigma associated with cannabis waning’.
‘Even conservative governments are recognising that medical cannabis can help alleviate symptoms, such as epilepsy in young children,...
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