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Green MP Nandor Tanczos is not the first person to blame his coughing on dust, rather than on hemp.
But Mr Tanczos was not smoking hemp yesterday – he was installing it as insulation in a cottage in Thorndon, Wellington, owned by Green MPs.
"It's not the hemp, it's the dust in the attic," he spluttered, after party co-leader Rod Donald handed a wad of the Nelson-made insulation up to him.
The Greens bought the first batch of the new wool-hemp insulation material, manufactured by New Wool Products in an experiment to find different ways to use industrial hemp.
It is part of a campaign by Mr Tanczos, who smokes cannabis as part of his Rastafarian religion, to have the drug decriminalised and the growing of industrial hemp made legal.
Unlike cannabis – a hemp product – the hemp insulation cannot be smoked for a high.
Mr Tanczos said the new product was safer in houses because it would not ignite, did not irritate the skin and lungs and was more energy-efficient to produce.
Industrial hemp is already grown in Britain, Australia, China and other countries, and on Thursday Parliament's primary production select committee will evaluate a one-year trial of industrial hemp in New Zealand.
The committee is considering Mr Tanczos' Misuse of Drugs (Industrial Hemp) Amendment Bill, which would allow industrial hemp to be grown legally.
Copyright © 2002, New Zealand Press Association. All rights reserved.
But Mr Tanczos was not smoking hemp yesterday – he was installing it as insulation in a cottage in Thorndon, Wellington, owned by Green MPs.
"It's not the hemp, it's the dust in the attic," he spluttered, after party co-leader Rod Donald handed a wad of the Nelson-made insulation up to him.
The Greens bought the first batch of the new wool-hemp insulation material, manufactured by New Wool Products in an experiment to find different ways to use industrial hemp.
It is part of a campaign by Mr Tanczos, who smokes cannabis as part of his Rastafarian religion, to have the drug decriminalised and the growing of industrial hemp made legal.
Unlike cannabis – a hemp product – the hemp insulation cannot be smoked for a high.
Mr Tanczos said the new product was safer in houses because it would not ignite, did not irritate the skin and lungs and was more energy-efficient to produce.
Industrial hemp is already grown in Britain, Australia, China and other countries, and on Thursday Parliament's primary production select committee will evaluate a one-year trial of industrial hemp in New Zealand.
The committee is considering Mr Tanczos' Misuse of Drugs (Industrial Hemp) Amendment Bill, which would allow industrial hemp to be grown legally.
Copyright © 2002, New Zealand Press Association. All rights reserved.
