“The promise of better health and the possibility of feeding the world ‘is at our fingertips’, according to a statement released by Dr. R. Lee Hamilton and fellow UCLA researcher William Eidelman, MD. 

Hemp oil is the highest in total essential fatty acids, at 80 to 81 percent of total volume.  ‘Essential fatty acids are responsible for our immune response. In the old country, the peasants ate hemp butter. They were more resistant to disease than the nobility. The aristocrats wouldn’t eat hemp because the poor ate the oil of it in their soup’. Hamilton reports that these oils do not raise cholesterol levels, but, in fact, help clear the arteries.

Hempseed has long been a part of the human diet. Use of the seed for food has been important in history, especially where people have survived on marginal farmland.

Hempseed is a complete vegetable protein. There are eight amino acids essential to life that the human body cannot make, and two more the body cannot make in sufficient quantity . . . The complete protein in hempseed gives the human body all the essential amino acids required to maintain health.”

— Excerpts from Hemp: Lifeline to the Future, Chapter 13 by Chris Conrad