Industrial Hemp Bill Introduced to South Australian Parliament
New laws have been introduced by the South Australian Greens to legalise growing industrial hemp.
SA is the only state where industrial hemp, which can be used to make clothing, building products and even moisturiser, has not yet been legalised.
Greens MLC Tammy Franks said it was better for the environment than other crops such as cotton.
She said it had been outlawed in South Australia because of a stigma attached to other varieties of cannabis, which contained high levels of the psychoactive drug THC.
"It's the old mythology. It's the fear and the scare campaigns of a previous century," Ms Franks said.
"The idea that you would smoke this hemp and get stoned is a fallacy. Industrial hemp products are grown from less than 1 per cent THC in the raw materials."
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