Wednesday, 3 March 2021, 1:08 pm
With The America’s Cup due to start in a few days’
time, innovators from a very different sphere have been
wondering how long it could be before New Zealand could be
competing in a boat entirely built from hemp, with the crew
eating high-energy, nutritious hemp-infused foods and
wearing high-performance hemp kit?
Industrial hemp
(iHemp) is from the same family as cannabis, but from
different cultivars and without the psychoactive effects.
Having historically fallen out of favour, it’s rapidly
finding its place in the world again, due primarily to its
environmental and health benefits.
Hemp has a wide