7. Cannabis DeStygmatised - Irish and EU hemp markets explained with Chris Allen (HFI) Director

00:00:01 - Introduction
00:00:37 - Hemp vs Cannabis
00:03:23 - Importance of Hemp in Global Development
00:08:33 - European Regulation on Hemp
00:10:52 - Viability of Hemp for Farmers and Industry
00:20:36 - Ireland's Voice in EU Hemp Legislation
0:32:54 - The Need for Scientific Support in the Hemp Industry
0:33:27 - Lack of Conversation and Understanding in Ireland
0:34:49 - Challenges Faced by Irish Farmers
0:36:42 - Micro Industries Within Industrial Hemp
0:39:48 - Challenges in Processing Industrial Hemp in Ireland
0:43:33 - Integration and Regulation for Maximum Benefits
1:04:41 - Impact of Irish government's approach on Civil Society and Environmental NGOs
1:06:16 - Efforts during Christmas holidays to prevent unjust rulings
1:09:26 - Call for rational resolution and restoration of control
1:10:43 - Appreciation for leadership in the hemp industry

This is a call we were desperate to make as there are so many issues surrounding hemp at a time when it should be playing such a critical role in the current climate crisis. Yet we still have many small family businesses being 'raided' and their product seized in Ireland.
We wanted to do a deep dive as to what is the ongoing issues with Hemp in Europe and so this was a brilliant opportunity to get that info from Chris Allen, the foremost authority on the subject in Ireland
Unfortunately the quality of the edit hits a couple of over exposure issues but the enlightenment is there for everyone to hear!!!

Chris Allen is Executive Director at Hemp Federation Ireland, Ireland's national hemp industry representative body. Her main area of expertise is the legislation and regulation governing the operation of the Industrial hemp sector in Ireland and Europe from 1970 to the present day. Hemp Federation Ireland is a non-profit organisation and Chris works both in Ireland and at EU level to protect the legal and economic entitlements of Irish hemp farmers and business operators and to defend the environmental potentials of the Irish Industrial Hemp sector for the benefit of the Irish people.

Hemp was first reintroduced as an agricultural crop by the European Commission in 1970 and has been grown consistently in EU Member States ever since. In 2018, Irish authorities began to represent the EU hemp crop and derived goods as dangerous drugs in public discourse. In 2020, in advance of the opening up of rapidly expanding global Industrial Hemp markets, the Irish government completed its transfer of agricultural hemp revenue streams from Irish farmers and operators to pharmaceutical cannabis interests.
In December 2020, the European Court of Justice ruled that hemp and derived goods cannot be controlled as drugs under the national laws of Member States. A few weeks later Ireland's Minister for Health designated the EU hemp crop as a drug for the purposes of Section 13 (1) (a) of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1977. Although hemp products are available in shops across Ireland, they are no longer grown on Irish farms.
No accurate information on the environmental, social and economic potentials of the European hemp industry has ever been made available to Irish farmers or the Irish public.

It is an hour but jammed packed with qualified knowledge...

https://www.hempfederationireland.org/

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