HOORAY FOR HEMP

Re: Winnipeg hemp foods company on a high (Sept. 10).

As a culinary student and hemp activist, I have long expounded on the
virtues of using hemp in our daily diet. For more than 3,000 years,
hemp has been a staple in many cultures' diets worldwide.

Finally, it seems, the 70-year prohibition on hemp is going to end in
the U.S. soon. I couldn't be happier. Unfortunately, hemp flour, which
I love to use in baking, isn't widely available in the U.S., and I
have to special order it through companies that charge up to $8 a
pound plus shipping. Nutritionally speaking, hempseed flour is the
healthiest flour a person can eat.

Thankfully, companies like Manitoba Harvest Hemp Foods & Oils are
paving the way for all the others that are sure to follow after hemp
is legalized here in the States. Hopefully, once the moratorium on
hemp is lifted the Manitoba company will be able to fully expand into
my country.

Nutritionally speaking, hempseed flour is the healthiest flour a
person can eat.

MATT INMAN

Cincinnati, Ohio