greenbuddha Posted January 25, 2011 Report Share Posted January 25, 2011 HEMP: GOOD STUFF, BAD RAP by Alexia Elejalde-Ruiz, Tribune newspapers, (Source:Chicago Tribune) writeNewsItems();Regional NewsUS CA: Tensions Rising Over Medical Marijuana Shops in Sacramento County US: Hemp: Good Stuff, Bad Rap US CA: Conference Markets Medical Marijuana to Seniors US MI: Medical Marijuana Ordinance Evolves US CA: Santa Barbara Still Tangled in Turmoil Over Marijuana Dispensaries US CA: Group Fails Test Needed For Medical Pot Permit US CA: Council Oks Lottery For Pot Clinics US CA: Column: Sentencing for Marijuana Violations Is a Matter of Pot Luck US MT: Unusual Alliances Form Over Bill on Montana Medical Marijuana Industry US MN: Federal Judge Won't Stop DEA Ban on 'Fake Pot' More News Select a State See Map Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware District of Columbia FEDERAL Florida Georgia Guam Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Puerto Rico Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virgin Islands Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming Check State Laws 19 Jan 2011 Share This Article United States ------- More People Are Choosing This Balanced Food Source Despite Legal Potshots Hemp, its advocates say, is nature's perfect food source. It has omega-3 and omega-6 essential fatty acids, contains 33 percent protein, is a good source of vitamin E and is low in saturated fat. It's an environmentally friendly crop that grows fast and requires few pesticides. We Can't Farm It Hemp is also a controversial food source because of its relationship with its naughty cousin, marijuana. Hemp seeds can contain trace amounts of tetrahydrocannabinol ( THC ), the psychoactive chemical in marijuana. While it is legal to import, sell, purchase and consume industrial hemp in the U.S., it is illegal to grow it without a permit from the Drug Enforcement Agency, and it is virtually impossible to get such a permit. The policy stems from the Controlled Substances Act of 1970, when all varieties of cannabis were put into the category of schedule 1 drugs, alongside the likes of heroin. The DEA tried to ban hemp food consumption in 2001, citing THC concerns. The ban was struck down in court. But We Can Use It Recent years have been good to hemp foods, which have gone mainstream, sitting alongside flax and soy in health food stores and appearing in the form of hemp oil, hemp milk and hemp butter, as well as in salad dressings, nutrition bars, breads, cookies, waffles and frozen desserts. It's also in personal care products like soaps, shampoos and lotions. Sales of hemp grocery and body care products in the U.S. were $37.9 million in 2009, up 11 percent from the previous year, according to market research company Spins Inc., which specializes in the natural products industry ( hemp grocery sales surged 42 percent between 2007 and 2008 ). Those figures exclude data from Whole Foods Market and several other large stores, so the Hemp Industries Association estimates sales are closer to $113 million to $129 million. Hemp for food products comes mostly from Canada. Industrial hemp, which also is imported from China and Europe and used to make fabric, paper, rope, construction materials and biodiesel, comes from the same genus and species as marijuana, Cannabis sativa, but represents a different varietal. Industrial hemp plants have very low quantities of THC. In Canada, regulations keep THC content under 0.3 percent. "You can't, under any reasonable circumstances, get high or blow a drug test from eating industrial hemp," said Dr. Jeffrey Hergenrather, president of the Society of Cannabis Clinicians. Smoking hemp would just give you a headache and irritate your airway, he said. Hergenrather said he eats one to two tablespoons of hemp oil a day, usually in salad dressings. Hemp oil should not be used for frying because unhealthy byproducts are formed at high temperatures. In his book "Fats That Heal, Fats That Kill," Udo Erasmus calls hemp "nature's most perfectly balanced oil" because it has a good proportion of essential nutrients from a single source. It has more protein than all seeds except soy and more omega-3 fatty acids than all seeds except flax. Look-Alike Fears A primary concern among those opposed to the legalization of hemp farming is that it could facilitate marijuana production. Industrial hemp and marijuana plants look very similar, so it's possible to obscure marijuana plants in a hemp field. MAP posted-by: Richard Lake Share This Article Pubdate: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 Source: Chicago Tribune (IL) Copyright: 2011 Chicago Tribune Company Contact: http://drugsense.org/url/IuiAC7IZ Website: http://www.chicagotribune.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/82 Author: Alexia Elejalde-Ruiz, Tribune newspapers Cited: Hemp Industries Association http://www.thehia.org/ Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/topic/industrial+hemp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southern Cross Posted January 25, 2011 Report Share Posted January 25, 2011 ------- More People Are Choosing This Balanced Food Source Despite Legal Potshots Hemp, its advocates say, is nature's perfect food source. It has omega-3 and omega-6 essential fatty acids, contains 33 percent protein, is a good source of vitamin E and is low in saturated fat. It's an environmentally friendly crop that grows fast and requires few pesticides. We Can't Farm It Hemp is also a controversial food source because of its relationship with its naughty cousin, marijuana. Hemp seeds can contain trace amounts of tetrahydrocannabinol ( THC ), the psychoactive chemical in marijuana. While it is legal to import, sell, purchase and consume industrial hemp in the U.S., it is illegal to grow it without a permit from the Drug Enforcement Agency, and it is virtually impossible to get such a permit. The policy stems from the Controlled Substances Act of 1970, when all varieties of cannabis were put into the category of schedule 1 drugs, alongside the likes of heroin. The DEA tried to ban hemp food consumption in 2001, citing THC concerns. The ban was struck down in court. NUTIVA is the company that had its truck seized by the DEA at the Canadian border. They fought and got the ban struck down. This is where I purchase all of my hemp seed, hemp oil and other fine products. https://store.nutiva.com/hempseed/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bisharoo Posted January 25, 2011 Report Share Posted January 25, 2011 NUTIVA is the company that had its truck seized by the DEA at the Canadian border. They fought and got the ban struck down. This is where I purchase all of my hemp seed, hemp oil and other fine products. https://store.nutiva.com/hempseed/ That is quite a nice site SC. You have no issues with orders thus far? Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bisharoo Posted January 25, 2011 Report Share Posted January 25, 2011 HEMP: GOOD STUFF, BAD RAP by Alexia Elejalde-Ruiz, Tribune newspapers, (Source:Chicago Tribune) writeNewsItems();Regional NewsUS CA: Tensions Rising Over Medical Marijuana Shops in Sacramento County US: Hemp: Good Stuff, Bad Rap US CA: Conference Markets Medical Marijuana to Seniors US MI: Medical Marijuana Ordinance Evolves US CA: Santa Barbara Still Tangled in Turmoil Over Marijuana Dispensaries US CA: Group Fails Test Needed For Medical Pot Permit US CA: Council Oks Lottery For Pot Clinics US CA: Column: Sentencing for Marijuana Violations Is a Matter of Pot Luck US MT: Unusual Alliances Form Over Bill on Montana Medical Marijuana Industry US MN: Federal Judge Won't Stop DEA Ban on 'Fake Pot' More News Select a State See Map Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware District of Columbia FEDERAL Florida Georgia Guam Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Puerto Rico Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virgin Islands Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming Check State Laws 19 Jan 2011 Share This Article United States ------- More People Are Choosing This Balanced Food Source Despite Legal Potshots Hemp, its advocates say, is nature's perfect food source. It has omega-3 and omega-6 essential fatty acids, contains 33 percent protein, is a good source of vitamin E and is low in saturated fat. It's an environmentally friendly crop that grows fast and requires few pesticides. We Can't Farm It Hemp is also a controversial food source because of its relationship with its naughty cousin, marijuana. Hemp seeds can contain trace amounts of tetrahydrocannabinol ( THC ), the psychoactive chemical in marijuana. While it is legal to import, sell, purchase and consume industrial hemp in the U.S., it is illegal to grow it without a permit from the Drug Enforcement Agency, and it is virtually impossible to get such a permit. The policy stems from the Controlled Substances Act of 1970, when all varieties of cannabis were put into the category of schedule 1 drugs, alongside the likes of heroin. The DEA tried to ban hemp food consumption in 2001, citing THC concerns. The ban was struck down in court. But We Can Use It Recent years have been good to hemp foods, which have gone mainstream, sitting alongside flax and soy in health food stores and appearing in the form of hemp oil, hemp milk and hemp butter, as well as in salad dressings, nutrition bars, breads, cookies, waffles and frozen desserts. It's also in personal care products like soaps, shampoos and lotions. Sales of hemp grocery and body care products in the U.S. were $37.9 million in 2009, up 11 percent from the previous year, according to market research company Spins Inc., which specializes in the natural products industry ( hemp grocery sales surged 42 percent between 2007 and 2008 ). Those figures exclude data from Whole Foods Market and several other large stores, so the Hemp Industries Association estimates sales are closer to $113 million to $129 million. Hemp for food products comes mostly from Canada. Industrial hemp, which also is imported from China and Europe and used to make fabric, paper, rope, construction materials and biodiesel, comes from the same genus and species as marijuana, Cannabis sativa, but represents a different varietal. Industrial hemp plants have very low quantities of THC. In Canada, regulations keep THC content under 0.3 percent. "You can't, under any reasonable circumstances, get high or blow a drug test from eating industrial hemp," said Dr. Jeffrey Hergenrather, president of the Society of Cannabis Clinicians. Smoking hemp would just give you a headache and irritate your airway, he said. Hergenrather said he eats one to two tablespoons of hemp oil a day, usually in salad dressings. Hemp oil should not be used for frying because unhealthy byproducts are formed at high temperatures. In his book "Fats That Heal, Fats That Kill," Udo Erasmus calls hemp "nature's most perfectly balanced oil" because it has a good proportion of essential nutrients from a single source. It has more protein than all seeds except soy and more omega-3 fatty acids than all seeds except flax. Look-Alike Fears A primary concern among those opposed to the legalization of hemp farming is that it could facilitate marijuana production. Industrial hemp and marijuana plants look very similar, so it's possible to obscure marijuana plants in a hemp field. MAP posted-by: Richard Lake Share This Article Pubdate: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 Source: Chicago Tribune (IL) Copyright: 2011 Chicago Tribune Company Contact: http://drugsense.org/url/IuiAC7IZ Website: http://www.chicagotribune.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/82 Author: Alexia Elejalde-Ruiz, Tribune newspapers Cited: Hemp Industries Association http://www.thehia.org/ Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.or...industrial+hemp And thank you GB for all this info. Peace to you today my friend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenbuddha Posted January 25, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 25, 2011 Thank you, Bish. And peace to you as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southern Cross Posted January 25, 2011 Report Share Posted January 25, 2011 That is quite a nice site SC. You have no issues with orders thus far? Thanks. Fast friendly service. Not one problem in over 4 years. https://store.nutiva.com/hempseed/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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