The hemp-is-a-miracle-substance movement of the last 15 years or so mostly passed me by, but yesterday I was feeling adventurous, and so bought some hemp milk. It was surprisingly good! It tastes more like sunflower seeds to me than anything else, and I’m guessing that it tastes best cold, which is how I drank it.
(The title of the post is a Canadian in-joke.)
upyernoz | 02-Jul-07 at 5:12 pm | Permalink
my big problem with the “hemp-is-a-miracle-substance movement” is how self-serving it all seems to me. sure, i wouldn’t mind if pot were legalized. but i have a hard time believing that, by total coincidence, the plant that produces people’s favorite drug also happens to cure just about everything else. what are the odds?
i guess i just question the “miracle cure” people’s motives–even if i ultimately agree with those motives.
Chris | 02-Jul-07 at 5:34 pm | Permalink
That was my reaction too. But apparently it really is pretty useful, and they legalized the use of hemp and kept up their idiotic War on Drugs, so perhaps if it was intended to be self-serving by pot users it really didn’t turn out that way.
OneFatEnglishman | 03-Jul-07 at 12:47 pm | Permalink
FWIW, in Britain, the medical use of cannabis derivatives remained legal until 1971. If it had been entirely useless, then given the previous half century of hysterical campaigning against the stuff, I feel it would have been dropped from the pharmacopeia a lot sooner.