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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~

A Loaf of Wonder Food or Seeds of Addiction?

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 -- tetrahydrocannabinol s -- 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 href="http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread15987.shtml" target="_blank">A Loaf of Wonder Food or Seeds of Addiction?</a>
Source: Minneapolis Star-Tribune (MN)
Author: Chuck Haga, Star Tribune
Published: April 17, 2003
Contact: opinion@startribune. com
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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)

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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.

<a href="http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread4190.shtml" target="_blank">Hous e Votes To Let Farmers Grow Industrial Hemp</a>

* “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.

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* <a href="http://www.spokane.net" target="_blank">Many Essential Nutrients Found in Hemp Seed</a> July 27, 2000
By Nancy Ross Ryan - Chicago Tribune
Source: Spokane.net
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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.



<a href="http://www.ratical.org/renewables/hempseed1.html" target="_blank">HEMP SEED: THE MOST NUTRITIONALLY COMPLETE FOOD SOURCE IN THE WORLD</a>
Part One by Lynn Osburn
<a href="http://www.ratical.org/renewables/hempseed2.html" target="_blank">Part II, Hempseed Oils and the Flow of Life Force</a>
<a href="http://www.ratical.org/renewables/index.html" target="_blank">HEMP , THE PREMIER RENEWABLE RESOURCE</a>
<a href="http://www.ratical.org/renewables/eFarming.html" target="_blank">Ener gy Farming in America</a>

<a href="http://www.hempfood.com" target="_blank">Hemp Food Association</a>
<a href="http://www.votehemp.com" target="_blank">VOTE HEMP</a>
<a href="http://www.jackherer.com" target="_blank">The Hemp Conspiriacy</a>
<a href="http://www.thehia.org/faq.htm" target="_blank">Hemp FAQ's</a>

FAQ#1: What are the benefits of hemp seeds and hemp oil for food?
For informative answers to this question, see:
<a href="http://www.thehia.org/faqs/faq1.htm" target="_blank">Hemp Seed, The Royal Grain, by Chris Bennett</a>
<a href="http://www.thehia.org/faqs/faq2.htm" target="_blank">Trad itional Uses of Culinary Hemp Seed by Dr. Alexander Sumach</a>
<a href="http://www.thehia.org/faqs/faq3.htm" target="_blank">Cent uries of Safe Consumption of Hemp Foods by Cynthia Thielen</a>
<a href="http://www.thehia.org/faqs/faq4.htm" target="_blank">Esse ntial Fatty Acids Can Affect Your Baby's Intelligence! by Hempola,Inc.</a>
<a href="http://www.thehia.org/faqs/faq5.htm" target="_blank">Nutr itional Analysis of Hempseed and Hempseed Oil by The Ohio Hempery</a>
<a href="http://www.thehia.org/faqs/faq5.htm" target="_blank">Nutr itional Analysis of HempNut Hulled Hempseed by Richard Rose</a>
<a href="http://www.hemp.co.uk/html/coldcure.html" target="_blank">Hemp seed: A cure for the common cold?</a>
<a href="http://www.hemp.co.uk/html/alivefoods.html" target="_blank">Aliv e Foods raw hemp foods</a> , wellness retreat centre based on people who cured themselves from cancer
<a href="http://www.hemp.co.uk/html/icecream.html" target="_blank">Moth erhemp</a> 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

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.
<a href="http://www.hemp.co.uk" target="_blank">"Hem p Food Industries Association"</a>
subscriber@hemp.co.u k
<a href="http://www.hemp.co.uk/html/tunein.html" target="_blank">Tune In, Turn on, Eat Up</a>
<a href="http://www.hemp.co.uk/images/HEMPmandf.pdf" target="_blank">Dr Dave West</a> of the NAIHC educates us to some 28 pages of hemp myths and facts in adobe acrobat format
<a href="http://www.hemp.co.uk/html/ozharvest.html" target="_blank">Aust ralia's bumper harvest</a>

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<a href="http://www.nutiva.com/recipe.html" target="_blank">Nuti va Recipes</a>
<a href="http://www.safariseeds.com" target="_blank">Paci fic Hemp now Safari Seeds</a>
<a href="http://www.rella.com/hempfood.html" target="_blank">Hemp Rella</a>
<a href="http://www.hempery.com" target="_blank">Ohio Hempery</a>
<a href="http://www.efn.org/~eathemp/hbhempfood.html" target="_blank">Hung ry Bear Hemp Foods</a>
<a href="http://www.galaxyglobaleate ry.com" target="_blank">Gala xy Global Eatery</a>
<a href="http://www.hemp.co.uk:80" target="_blank">Hemp .co.uk</a>
<a href="http://www.hempenale.com" target="_blank">Hemp en Ale Home</a>
<a href="http://www.humbrew.com" target="_blank">Humb oldt Brewing Company Hemp Beer!</a>
<a href="http://www.hemp.co.uk:80/vin.html" target="_blank">A recipe for hemp oil vinaigrette</a>

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)

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patriot

Another fine example of Amerikkan tax dollars at work against the entire world.

Sure am glad we have such a fine orginization like the DEAth protecting us from that dangerous THC.

Like wow man, if this stuff gets into our bodies, we will all die or become crazy. I wonder how humanity survived before this became outlawed. <img src="confused.gif" border="0">

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A true patriot is always ready to stand up against his own government.

We can't be using plants that come from the Lord for beneficial purposes. Now hurry up, or we'll be late for church.

The bigger the lie, the more people will believe it.-Adolf Hitler

Legalizing marijuana won't grow our economy-Barack Hussein Obama 2009

dezzy533

[quote]Originally posted by patriot:
<strong>Another fine example of Amerikkan tax dollars at work against the entire world.

Sure am glad we have such a fine orginization like the DEAth protecting us from that dangerous THC.

Like wow man, if this stuff gets into our bodies, we will all die or become crazy. I wonder how humanity survived before this became outlawed. </strong><hr></blockquote>

thats has to be the lamest thing i have ever seen DEAth god your a fuckin idiot and if you dont like america why the fuck do you live her because your a bitch just like eddie veddar and alec baldwin.

patriot

Gee whiz dezzy. I guess you won't complain at all when the Amerikkan drug agents are hauling you off to jail because you choose to use a plant.

Or maybe you are one and you can use all you want with no fear of arrest.

However, with the improper grammar you used on your reply, we all know who the idiot is.

By the way, I plan to leave Amerikka as soon as I can and renounce my citizenship.

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A true patriot is always ready to stand up against his own government.

We can't be using plants that come from the Lord for beneficial purposes. Now hurry up, or we'll be late for church.

The bigger the lie, the more people will believe it.-Adolf Hitler

Legalizing marijuana won't grow our economy-Barack Hussein Obama 2009

DdC

f you dont like america why the fuck do you live her



No Dipshit, the real question is why are Nazi pukes and illiterate Bushit lovers holding political office?

Because of brain dead whoosy sluts like dezzy533

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