Guest guest Posted May 23, 2003 Report Share Posted May 23, 2003 Give us this day our daily bread. ~Matthew 6:11~ And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body. ~Matthew 26:26~ BREAD: In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. ~Genesis 3:19~ So, this " hemp bread " in the bag with the many-stemmed leaf -- is it as filling as it looks, or does it give you the munchies? Is it OK to eat as long as you don't inhale? Lynn Gordon laughs -- not fall-down laughing, but something more mellow, resigned as she is by now to questions about stems, dealers and street value. " We all try not to joke about it, but we can't help it, " she said. Gordon is president of French Meadow Bakery in Minneapolis, which four years ago introduced " Healthy Hemp Sprouted Bread, " made with hempseed imported from Germany and Canada -- imported because hemp, a member of the cannabis family related to marijuana, is in some forms a controlled substance in the United States. Hempseed and hemp oil, also used in the making of food products, contain trace amounts of THC -- the " psychoactive " element that makes cousin marijuana an illegal drug. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) has been trying for more than a year to prohibit the use of hempseed and hemp oil in food products, and the agency recently published " final rules " addressing the legal status of products derived from the cannabis plant. The ban is to take effect Monday, but a hemp industry association has asked the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco to stay the order. The appeals court stayed an earlier form of the proposed rule last year. Without another stay, Gordon fears she'll have to stop making her popular hemp bread -- which accounts for about 20 percent of French Meadow's nationwide sales of frozen and refrigerated natural foods. It also accounts for most of Gordon's own breakfasts and lunches. " I have it every day with a poached egg, and every day I have a grilled cheese sandwich, " she said. " I'd really hate to have to stop. I've become quite addicted to it. " Hahahahahahahahaha. " No, really, hempseed is a wonder food, one of the most nutritious foods on the planet, " she said. " This would be a great loss for health-conscious consumers of the United States. " Controlled substance Under the Controlled Substances Act, any product that contains even a trace of THC -- tetrahydrocannabinols -- is itself a controlled substance, according to the DEA. In some cases, the agency grants exemptions for " legitimate industrial use " of a controlled substance, and the rules the DEA announced on March 21 allow for the use of hemp to make rope, paper, clothing, soaps and shampoos. " DEA is exempting these types of industrial cannabis products from control because they . . . do not cause THC to enter the human body, " the agency said. " When it comes to cannabis products that are intended or used for human consumption [foods and beverages], however, today's rules make clear that if such a product contains THC, it remains prohibited. " To register their opposition to the DEA's rule and " give the public a taste of what they'll be missing, " hemp advocates will visit about 70 agency offices around the country Monday and pass out samples of foods containing hempseed or hemp oil. At about half of those sites, the samples will be French Meadow's Healthy Hemp Sprouted Bread, fresh from the company's south Minneapolis bakery, Gordon said. She insists that her bread has nothing to do with any campaign to decriminalize marijuana -- any more than poppyseed muffins are meant to lead to use of opium. " I'm in the food business, not the drug business, " she said. " I don't have a personal penchant for marijuana. Those days passed long ago. If marijuana is helpful for people with glaucoma, maybe it should be available to them. But that's not my battle. " A 'rotation crop' When the DEA first declared war on hempseed in food, " we were told we couldn't make it anymore and had to remove it from our shelves, " Gordon said. " All our retailers around the country removed it, but we kept making it and selling it at our cafe " on Lyndale Avenue S. The seeds test virtually THC-free, she said. French Meadow also tests finished loaves, with the same result. " The bag is a little controversial, " Gordon said, though the pictured hemp leaf " is pointier, not as rounded " as a marijuana leaf. And each plastic bag -- not to say baggie -- carries an endorsement from George Washington: " Make the most of the hemp seed, " he is quoted as saying in 1794. " Sow it everywhere! " Thomas Jefferson raised hemp, too, Gordon said. " It's not just a fluffy marketing technique, " she said. " Hemp doesn't require herbicides or pesticides, and it's a very good rotation crop for corn and soybeans. " Baked with whole-wheat flour, flaxseed, pumpkin seeds and other organic ingredients, French Meadow's hemp bread is high in protein, fiber and good fatty acids. " It's absolutely obscene that we're looking to ban it, " Gordon said. A Loaf of Wonder Food or Seeds of Addiction? http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread15987.shtml Source: Minneapolis Star-Tribune (MN) Author: Chuck Haga, Star Tribune Published: April 17, 2003 Contact: opinion Website: http://www.startribune.com/ Related Articles & Web Site: Cannabis News Hemp Links http://freedomtoexhale.com/hls.htm Foods Containing Hemp Face DEA Ban http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread15823.shtml DEA Final Rule on Hemp Foods Challenged http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread15809.shtml Get Your Fill of Hemp While It's Still Legal http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread11547.shtml http://www.healthyhempbread.com And I will raise up for them a plant of renown, and they shall be no more consumed with hunger in the land, neither bear the shame of the heathen any more. (Ezekiel 34:29) ********************************************************* Sacrament http://www.cannabisculture.com/library/dbarticles.cgi?head=SACRAMENT Hemp Food * Hemp extracts can be used to treat a variety of physical and mental ailments which include tuberculosis, glaucoma, depression, and the side effects of cancer therapy. Prior to this century, cannabis extracts were the most commonly used medicines throughout the world. House Votes To Let Farmers Grow Industrial Hemp http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread4190.shtml * “The hemp seed is the highest of any plant in essential amino acids and essential fatty acids. These essential fatty acids are responsible for our immune response...and contribute to…more disease resistance.” (Hempseed Nutrition by Lynn Osburn). * Hempseed was used to treat nutritional deficiencies brought on by tuberculosis, a severe nutrition blocking disease that causes the body to waste away. (Czechoslovakia Tubercular Nutritional Study, 1955.) * Hemp seed protein more closely resembles that of the human body than soy; it is also easier to digest. Hemp contains a richer source of essential fatty acid oils than soy. These oils prevent heart disease and build the immune system. Hemp also resists UV-B light, which is a kind of sunlight that is blocked by the ozone layer. Soy beans do not take UV-B light very well. If the ozone layer were to deplete by 16%, which by some estimates is very possible, soy production would fall by 25-30%. We may have to grow hemp or starve -- and it won't be the first time that this has happened. Hemp has been used to " bail out " many populations in time of famine. * Hemp grain is the most nutritionally complete seed on the planet for human consumption. Each hemp seed contains 25% protein. This protein is more easily digestible than the protein in soybeans because it contains a perfect ratio of essential fatty acids (EFA's). EFA's are important for strengthening your immune system and protecting you from disease. Fish oil and flax oil are also high in EFA's, but hemp contains the most perfect ratio of EFA's for human consumption. Hemp grain is also high in iron and calcium and is an excellent source of dietary fiber * Ralph Loziers, general counsel of the National Institute of Oilseed Products, told the Congressional committee studying marijuana prohibition in 1937 that, “Hemp seed… is used in all the Oriental nations and also in a part of Russia as food. It is grown in their fields and used as oatmeal. * Hemp seed oil has been called Nature's perfect blend of Essential Fatty Acids due to the large amount of these substances contained in the oil. Specifically Hemp seed oil has large amounts of Lineolenic (Omega-3), and Lineoleic (Omega-6) fatty acids. These are considered to be essential by nutritionists since humans are unable to synthesize them, thus they must consume them from an external source. * Many Essential Nutrients Found in Hemp Seed July 27, 2000 By Nancy Ross Ryan - Chicago Tribune Source: Spokane.net http://www.spokane.net http://www.cannabisnews.com According to the latest research, there are about 45 nutrients that humans can't live without and which their bodies can't manufacture: 21 minerals, 13 vitamins, eight amino acids and two essential fatty acids. No single food has them all. But when a food is discovered that is a rich source of several essential nutrients, such as hemp seed, it makes nutrition news. Its promoters bill hemp seed as the soybean of the new millennium. In addition to containing vitamins and minerals (calcium, iron, thiamine, niacin and riboflavin), hemp seed, like the soybean, is a vegetable source of complete protein, having all eight amino acids. Hemp oil (pressed from the hemp seed) is, according to many, the best source of the two essential fatty acids (or EFAs) we can't live without: omega 3 alpha-linolenic acid and omega 6 linoleic acid. In 1992 a consortium of 20 British farmers requested permission to grow industrial hemp, a crop that had been banned since 1971. Home Office Minister Michael Jack saw no reason to oppose the request since industrial hemp had been grown for years on the Continent " without any problems " . The farmers received licenses to cultivate 1500 acres. In 1993 a consortium of 10 Canadian farmers requested permission to grow hemp, a crop that had been banned since 1923. The federal government informed them the law would have to be changed before commercial plots could be harvested. However, seeing that " farmers in Canada are very interested in it " , Health Minister Diane Marleau issued a permit for 18 acres of experimental plots. The next year Parliament enabled commercial harvests. HEMP SEED: THE MOST NUTRITIONALLY COMPLETE FOOD SOURCE IN THE WORLD Part One by Lynn Osburn http://www.ratical.org/renewables/hempseed1.html Part II, Hempseed Oils and the Flow of Life Force http://www.ratical.org/renewables/hempseed2.html HEMP, THE PREMIER RENEWABLE RESOURCE http://www.ratical.org/renewables/index.html Energy Farming in America http://www.ratical.org/renewables/eFarming.html Hemp Food Association http://www.hempfood.com VOTE HEMP http://www.votehemp.com The Hemp Conspiriacy http://www.jackherer.com Hemp FAQ's http://www.thehia.org/faq.htm FAQ#1: What are the benefits of hemp seeds and hemp oil for food? For informative answers to this question, see: Hemp Seed, The Royal Grain, by Chris Bennett http://www.thehia.org/faqs/faq1.htm Traditional Uses of Culinary Hemp Seed by Dr. Alexander Sumach http://www.thehia.org/faqs/faq2.htm Centuries of Safe Consumption of Hemp Foods by Cynthia Thielen http://www.thehia.org/faqs/faq3.htm Essential Fatty Acids Can Affect Your Baby's Intelligence! by Hempola, Inc. http://www.thehia.org/faqs/faq4.htm Nutritional Analysis of Hempseed and Hempseed Oil by The Ohio Hempery http://www.thehia.org/faqs/faq5.htm Nutritional Analysis of HempNut Hulled Hempseed by Richard Rose http://www.thehia.org/faqs/faq5.htm Hemp seed: A cure for the common cold? http://www.hemp.co.uk/html/coldcure.html Alive Foods raw hemp foods, wellness retreat centre based on people who cured themselves from cancer http://www.hemp.co.uk/html/alivefoods.html Motherhemp launch the succesful organic dairy free hemp ice-cream alternative to EU market at Biofach, visit them at the British Pavillion, Hall 1, Stand 440 http://www.hemp.co.uk/html/icecream.html Hemp Seed Cookbook, SCRAP, PO Box 510, Cazadero, CA 94521, (707) 847-3642, $2.25. Fats and Oils: The Complete Guide to Fats and Oils in Health and Nutrition, Alive Books, PO Box 80055, Burnaby BC, Canada V5H 3X5, $20. " Hemp Food Industries Association " r http://www.hemp.co.uk Tune In, Turn on, Eat Up http://www.hemp.co.uk/html/tunein.html Dr Dave West of the NAIHC educates us to some 28 pages of hemp myths and facts in adobe acrobat format http://www.hemp.co.uk/images/HEMPmandf.pdf Australia's bumper harvest http://www.hemp.co.uk/html/ozharvest.html Nutiva http://www.nutiva.com/ Nutiva Recipes http://www.nutiva.com/recipe.html Pacific Hemp Sativa's Kitchens Hemp Rella http://www.rella.com/hempfood.html Ohio Hempery http://www.hempery.com Hungry Bear Hemp Foods http://www.efn.org/~eathemp/hbhempfood.html Galaxy Global Eatery http://www.galaxyglobaleatery.com Hemp.co.uk http://www.hemp.co.uk:80 Hempen Ale Home http://www.hempenale.com Humboldt Brewing Company Hemp Beer! http://www.humbrew.com A recipe for hemp oil vinaigrette http://www.hemp.co.uk:80/vin.html ********************************************************* In the later times, some shall speak lies in hypocrisy commanding to abstain from meats which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth. Every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused if it be received with thanksgiving. For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer. If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine. (Paul: 1 Timothy 4:1-6) ===== Safe Sacramental Cannabis, Food, Fuel, Fiber, FARM-aceuticals Hardrug, Booze & Petro-Chem Alternative Eliminated by Legislation and Administrated Education Depravation! Welcome http://www.angelfire.com/ca7/ddc/index.html The New Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 25, 2003 Report Share Posted July 25, 2003 hemp is great, it's worth the extra money. and it shouldn't even show up on drug tests because the THC content is very low. I did see a program on TV however, which found that eating a poppy seed bagel can show up in an opium test. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 9, 2004 Report Share Posted May 9, 2004 I get them with no problem at my organic food co-op too. Angela Kathy Raine <kraine wrote: I get edible hemp seeds at my local food co-op / health food store. They are expensive, they are delicious. Kathy Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at HotJobs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 31, 2006 Report Share Posted July 31, 2006 Hemp vs. Marijuana http://www.ontariohempalliance.org/info/p_hvsm.cfm Hemp is not marijuana. Although both hemp and marijuana are categorized as Cannabis Sativa, marijuana has an average potency of 5-15% THC (the chemical substance which gives marijuana its psychoactive properties) whereas hemp has less than 0.3%THC. At this concentration, hemp has no psychoactive properties. Here is another great article. http://www.hempoilcan.com/nutri.html PuterWitch <puterwitch wrote: > now aren't hemp seeds the same thing as pot seeds, or is that different? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 21, 2007 Report Share Posted July 21, 2007 Donna, Thought of you when I listened to the latest Diet Science podcast on hemp foods. It was kind of light in substance, but here it is: http://snipr.com/1ol7g And then this morning, I read in the NY Times of North Dakotans' efforts to legalizae the growing of hemp crops: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/21/us/21hemp.html?_r=1 & hp & oref=slogin -Erin http://www.zenpawn.com/vegblog Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 15, 2009 Report Share Posted January 15, 2009 I have a question about hemp... I have some hemp seed that's been in a plastic storage container for about a year... or two. Is it still good do you think, or has it gone rancid by now? I'd like to still use it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 15, 2009 Report Share Posted January 15, 2009 I have not seen hemp seeds to plant. Only the other bud seed. Write me off list. Donna --- On Thu, 1/15/09, road.princess <mbishop999 wrote: road.princess <mbishop999 Re: Hemp Thursday, January 15, 2009, 2:35 PM I have a question about hemp... I have some hemp seed that's been in a plastic storage container for about a year... or two. Is it still good do you think, or has it gone rancid by now? I'd like to still use it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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