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Just last weekend, a friend was telling me about soaking marijuana in vodka for three days before making what he described as "fabulous cocktails." (Well, no kidding.) Now I discover in The Australian that he wasn't so off base. In fact, you can build a whole meal around cannabis. The newspaper reports that ice cream, cake and beer made with pot have been cleared on health grounds by the country's top food watchdog, "despite fears the 'marijuana munchies' could trigger positive drug tests."
The decision results from an appeal by Andrew Katelaris, a former doctor in Sydney who was de-registered for supplying medical marijuana to patients, who said, "Our vision is that anything you can do with soy beans or dairy you can do better with hemp seed." In fact, Food Standards Australia New Zealand found that industrial hemp contained such low levels of the psychedelic ingredient known as THC that no one eating food containing it would feel the effect. (Oh, yeah. They should try my friend's brownies, which I always thought paired nicely with vodka-and now I know why.) FSZNZ even went as far as to say that "hemp seed is nutritious food containing sizeable amounts of protein, polyunsaturated fats and dietary fiber." So maybe now hemp advocates will stop making those ugly macrame bags and turn their attention to the dinner table instead.
- Pot for grandma? Read about how middle-aged adults are buying marijuana for their ailing parents at ParentDish.com.
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3-15-2011 @9:49PM Brandt said... Marijuana is the safest drug with actual benefits for the user as opposed to alcohol which is dangerous, causes addiction, birth defects, and affects literally every organ in the body. Groups are organizing all over the country to speak their minds on reforming pot laws. I drew up a very cool poster for the cause which you can check out on my artist’s blog at http://dregstudiosart.blogspot.com/2011/01/vote-teapot-2011.html Drop in and let me know what you think!
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3-16-2011 @1:06PM Josh said... I doubt your friend's brownies were made with just the seeds...
;)
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3-16-2011 @6:48PM Macciza Macpherson said... High
It is unfortunate that you have presented this story in such a sensationalist way and repeated unsubstantiated claims from other news report.
Firstly the possibly of positive test results is described as impossible and unrealistic to achieve, in the risk assessment. Remember we are talking about the seed here, which contains no THC.
FSANZ went even further than your comments ie
Whole, low THC hempseed is a nutritious food containing sizable amounts of protein,
polyunsaturated fats and dietary fibre (Callaway 2004) as well as micronutrients such as
thiamin, vitamin E, phosphorus, potassium, magnesium, calcium, iron and zinc (Rodriguez-
Leyva and Pierce 2010). Hempseed oil contains the second highest amounts of omega-3
fatty acids of all commonly available plant-based oils (Callaway, 2004).
Although hempseed (whole and meal) has a higher amount of protein than egg, the traditional animal reference protein, whole hempseed is comparable toother seed and nut protein sources. Both forms of hempseed are second only to soy flour,and higher than whole soy bean.
So maybe now you will turn your bias away from the drug and promote the food.
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3-16-2011 @11:03PM Innocent Criminal said... I think you may need to re-read the article you pulled your information from as you have not got your facts straight.
FSANZ has not approved hemp seed foods, they are considering doing so.
It is not referred to as cannabis seed but hemp seed as the varieties that are grown for seed have
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3-16-2011 @11:11PM Innocent Criminal said... half of the above comment is missing, I have tried several times but this thing keeps cutting out the last 2/3 of it.
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3-17-2011 @10:53AM macciza said... A friends comment a bout this article "The guy that wrote this is a muppet and is doing a diservice by writing such garbage and relating hempseed food to high THC brownies."
I guess that does sum it up.
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