Ministers support drug use for Children

CEO of Ecofibre and MD of Hemp Foods Australia criticise Head in Sand Government

The recent decision by the Ministers of Australia and New Zealand to continue the prohibition of hemp foods in Australia is counter productive to the law against drugs.

It is common knowledge within Australia and New Zealand that industrial hemp is not a drug and that marijuana is a drug. By continuing prohibition for industrial hemp not only goes against the grain of the rest of the world, but it gives the wrong impression to the younger generation.

When the younger generation is told that industrial hemp is illegal, when most know that hemp food products are used overseas, these children who represent our next generation are given the impression that the Government's anti-drug campaigns must be a farce.

"The Ministers may be ignorant, but the teenagers in today's society are not." States Mr Phil Warner, CEO of Ecofibre Industries, a world leading force in the Industrial Hemp Industry. "By giving the impression that Australia believes that hash cookies are the same as hemp foods, which is a well-known and highly inaccurate image, the Australian anti-drug image is not being supported."

"We support the anti-drug campaign of the current Government, "supports Paul Benhaim, Managing Director of Hemp Foods, "however, this recent decision makes a mockery of the current drug education program."

The decision by ANZFA who recently supported all the technical reasons for hemp being used as a food followed the rest of the World's attitude to hemp as a food, as a 'nutritional and useful grain'.

Not withstanding the damage to a number of industry's and related jobs for Australian's the decision against Hemp Foods does not help current belief in today's Government.

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