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High on hemp seed, hemp oil and hempshakes
Want to be a rebel with a cause? Now you can buck the system while munching your leafy greens—just toss some Organic Cold Pressed Hemp Oil on your salad, throw some Organic Shelled Hempseeds in your soup, and snack a Hempshake Chocolate.
Here’s a riddle for you: Why would the U.S. government prohibit the cultivation of a fast-growing, hardy plant that can survive in most climates, is immune to many diseases and can be used to manufacture a multitude of goods such as clothes, paper products, plastics and food? Because it’s hemp.
Although industrial hemp is a derivative of Cannabis sativa, the plant from which marijuana is made, hemp contains less than 1 percent tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC—the stuff in pot that gets you high. It even contains cannabidiol (CBD), known to block the effects of that tiny amount of THC. Seriously, just ask any teenager looking to get stoned: Hemp isn’t a drug.
Poor misunderstood hemp. Once an indispensable plant used in all sorts of products around the world, its bright future was cut short (in North America, that is—in other nations, including China, it’s still widely used) when the U.S. government cracked down on drugs, passing the fateful 1937 Marihuana Tax Act, which made it so hard to grow hemp that few wanted to try anymore.
These days, growing industrial hemp is still illegal in the U.S.—although it was legalized 10 years ago in Canada. The reasoning is that growers could sneak some pot plants in among the hemp stalks, and voila! Weed everywhere! Not so simple, say hemp experts: Cannabis sativa plants grown for marijuana are generally female, while hemp is often male. Fertilized female plants would make poor quality pot that’s full of seeds and would fetch a low price on the street. Plants cultivated for hemp and pot are grown differently, and even appear different when put side by side. Yet this logic has failed to assuage the feds’ fears.
Thankfully, industry pioneers like Nutiva are still using hemp despite opposition. Nutiva—which also offers other products like its coconut oil and flax chocolate bar—realizes that in addition to being a great material for making clothes, paper and plastics, hemp is healthy to eat. Vegetarians take note: Hemp oil contains the highest concentration of essential fatty acids of any nut or seed oil. That means it’s full of indispensable omega-3s and omega-6s. Nutiva’s tasty Organic Cold-Pressed Hemp Oil can be added to almost anything you’re making for dinner and is especially delicious on salads or in sweet smoothies.
So drizzle that hemp oil over your grilled veggies, pour some in your banana shake and eat up! This is one revolution that calls for consumption.
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