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The story of Australia’s hemp pioneer


On May 1, 2017 hemp was finally legalised as a food in Australia. Here is the remarkable story of the man who has spent the past two decades committed to sharing the health of hemp with everyone.


by Paul Benhaim


I


t was during my travels in Canada in 1993 that I was introduced to Dylan, who owned a hemp store in


downtown Montreal. Dylan was your typical long-haired guy who showed me his 6-foot long bong and all the other things hemp can be used for: paper notepads, textiles, fabrics of all kinds, and my first sight of a hemp food bar. The food was obviously made in someone’s kitchen and hand-wrapped, but it made an impact on me upon hearing about hemp seeds' nutritional content. For starters, hemp seeds are high in omega 3 and 6 essential fatty acids, and are a great source of protein. For some years prior I had been


travelling throughout Asia, living with locals who spoke no English and knew nothing about foreigners except that they were white. I knew as little about them and spent time observing their habits. After some weeks, which became months, I noticed how their lives


revolved around food. In the mornings the women would go out and tend to their crops, fetching water, harvesting, and ultimately preparing food, which resulted in a late lunch where the men suddenly appeared. Food time, which contained some items not consumed in the west, would last quite some time and was often filled with laughter. It always finished with an afternoon siesta. My biggest observation was that these people, who lived virtually without money or sanitation and lived literally surrounded by shit, were the healthiest and happiest people I had ever met in my life. This was a lot to take in, as I had been


brought up in middle class London, which is very multi-cultural. Not washing your hands with soap before each meal was not heard of where I was brought up. In parts of Asia I visited – they used hands for something else. Enough to say, there was no toilet paper there.


GOOD FATS AND BAD FATS These experiences led me to take an interest in nutrition, happiness, longevity, and sustainability – a word now overused, but still worthy of discussion (not here). These lengthy studies (I often travelled with a backpack of books rather than anything else), which included long sabbaticals high in the Himalayas, dispersed with song and fireside chats led me to learn about good fats. It is now understood by many that there are good fats and bad fats. The fats used to stabilise foods for shelf life that are more ideal for large food chain outlets are often not ideal for the body, whereas the fats found in small quantities in fresh and unprocessed foods are the opposite – they are in fact essential for life to exist. When I later met with Dylan in


Montreal and he mentioned that hemp had the ideal balance of these essential


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