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He is loving life growing dope in the backyard of his house on the northern beaches with around 500 plants.
Welcome to Australia’s first licensed industrial hemp crop to be grown in an urban area.
Friar is no dealer and told The Age directly.
“I’d prefer you didn’t publish exactly where we are,” he says.
“Even though this is no good for smoking, you can imagine what would happen if people found out.”
The Friars believe hemp can be used from food to fabrics to building materials.
They are also in the initial stages of teaching farmers how to grow hemp crops.
”In the early 1800s, Australia was twice saved from famine by eating virtually nothing but hemp seed for protein and hemp leaves for roughage,” Wendy Friar said.
“As a grandfather several times over, I am championing this now as the answer to a lot of our sustainability problems. We just have to lose the baggage we have about hemp, and approach it in a more mature way