When I was researching home brewing (I was going to get into that until I realized that it was incompatible with the type of diet I was doing), I ran across several recipes for making beer with hemp as opposed to hops. The two are closely related; they can be grafted onto each other. I even read that if you grafted hops ontl a hemp stock, you end up with hops containing all of the psychoactive properties of hemp. Sounds like a interesting project for the underground botanist. I'm very surprised to hear that the government has decided to allow the use hemp seed in beer-making. But then again, it's beer, and alcohol is protected. Try to get the government to relax on any strictly herbal intoxicants (which have been a part of society since ancient times) and it's a different story. John Pavao ---------- Re hemp seed -- I heard there is a Micro Brew starting up in Washington DC making beer from hemp seed it is importing with FDA approval. Endless the products of agriculture and the big $$$, the beer expects to sell "very briskly". Grant-----> The Paleo Person SPEAR and STONE Grant [log in to unmask] http://www.mountain-inter.net/~magnuson/ ----->