new zealand hemp INDUSTRIES association Executive
Donald MacIntosh Angela van Zyl
Chair Secretary, Executive Member
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Executive Comment
EDITORS NOTE
This issue has a strong
focus on cannabis as a
medicine.
Marco Fantham
Editor
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Richard Barge Tui Qauqau Te Paa
Deputy Chair Executive Member
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Andrew Bell Linda Te Nahu
Executive Member Executive Member
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Chris Woodney
Executive Member &
Chair of Government Committee
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Richie Bayliss
Executive Member
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Werner Schulze
Executive Member
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Rosie Purchas
Executive Member
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Tom Welch
Executive Member &
Chair of Members Committee
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P
atients, caregivers, doctors and suppliers are
all eagerly awaiting the Medicinal Cannabis
Scheme which starts in December 2019. Many
NZ companies want to make it more affordable
for patients, which is in-line with the vision of many
Hempsters who support the development of a hemp
and cannabis industry, based on win-win deals
for consumers and business, whilst respecting the
environment and creating positive social outcomes.
Big Pharma are orientated toward a single molecule
approach, which is not suited to the entourage effect
from full spectrum cannabis products. The focus on
individual cannabinoids primarily THC and CBD, has
opened up the extraction industry.
Medical products are a small subset of what the
extraction industry represents. The “CBD economy”
is massive and not limited to medical use, non-
psychotropic CBD is already being infused into
food, beverages, cosmetics, supplements and
nutraceuticals and is being touted as a new multi-
billion dollar global industry.
Richard Barge - Deputy Chair NZHIA
India Resists
Hemp Prohibition
in 1961
I
ndia is the seventh-largest country
by area, the second-most populous
country, and the most populous
democracy in the world.
India never prohibited cannabis use
in 1961 like 182 other countries did
when President Nixon declared the
war on drugs. India have an unbroken
chain of use and a close relationship
with the plant. Cannabis is an
integral part of Ayurveda, the ancient
and ethnic medicine of India, and still
practised today, virtually unchanged
for 5000 years.
Hippocrates, the father of modern
medicine once said "Let food be
thy medicine, and medicine be thy
food." He never said that until he had
studied Ayurveda in India.
Kiwis' ...be like India.
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