Why Did #ALpolitics Legislature Make This #SuperFood #Illegal In #Alabama?

Q: What all-natural food has the following nutritional analysis?

Per 100g, it contains:
8.8g H2O – water
21.5g protein
30.4g fat
34.7g total carbohydrate
18.8g fiber
100 calories
4.6g ash – any inorganic material present in food, including minerals (Called ash, because after heating, water and organic material, such as fat & protein, is removed. Ash includes compounds with essential minerals, such as calcium and potassium. Generally, any natural, i.e., unprocessed, food will be less than 5% ash in content, while processed foods can have ash content of more than 10%.)
120 mg Ca – calcium
970 mg P – phosphorus
12.0 mg Fe – iron
5 mg beta-carotene equivalent – precursor to vitamin A
0.32 mg thiamine – vitamin B1
0.17 mg riboflavin – vitamin B2
2.1 mg niacin – vitamin B3, an essential vitamin, meaning our body doesn’t make it, and therefore it must be obtained from food
3.8% glycocol – aka glycine, or aminoacetic acid, a non-essential amino acid
3.6% alanine – essential amino acid (meaning our body doesn’t make it, and therefore it must be obtained from food)
20.9% valine and leucine – essential amino acids
2.4% phenylalanine – essential amino acid
2.1% tyrosine – non-essential amino acid (meaning our body can make it)
0.3% serine – non-essential amino acid
0.2% cystine – oxidized form of the amino acid cysteine  (an essential amino acid)
4.1% proline – non-essential amino acid
2.0% oxyproline – a lactam of glutamic acid, a non-essential amino acid
4.5% aspartic acid – amino acid
18.7% glutamic acid – amino acid
14.4% tryptophane and arginine –
1.7% lysine – essential amino acid
2.4% histidine – essential amino acid

Oil from the seed contains:
15% oleic – a monounsaturated, essential omega-9 fatty acid
70% linoleic – a polyunsaturated, essential omega-6 fatty acid
15% linolenic and isolinolenic acids

The seed cake (residue after pressing oil from seeds) contains:
10.8% water
10.2% fat
30.8% protein
40.6% N-free extract, and;
7.7% ash (consisting of: 20.3% K2O; 0.8% Na2O (sodium oxide); 23.6% CaO (calcium oxide), 5.7% MgO (magnesium oxide), 1.0% Fe2O3 (iron oxide), 36.5% P2O5 (phosphorus pentoxide), 0.2% SO3 (sulfur trioxide); 11.9% SiO2 (silicon dioxide, aka silica), 0.1% Cl (chlorine) and a trace of Mn2O3 (manganese oxide)).

And if you want to examine all 253 known compounds and phytochemicals present in the seed and plant, see this page: https://phytochem.nal.usda.gov/phytochem/plants/show/336

Do you have any idea what that food may be, or is?

If you guessed soy beans, or pistachios, or pecans, or walnuts, or avocados, seaweed, sweet potatoes, or even cotton seed, you’d be wrong. And no, it’s not the “lowly” peanut.

Instead, it’s the analyses of our good friend cannabis sativa, aka “hemp,” the low-to-no THC content plant known and used worldwide as fiber, fodder (animal feed), and more.

And as one might suppose, regarding anything even remotely related to the plant cannabis sativa, the Code of Alabama states in pertinent part of Title 13 (the criminal code) that:

Section 13A-12-231(1) Any person who knowingly sells, manufactures, delivers, or brings into this state, or who is knowingly in actual or constructive possession of, in excess of one kilo or 2.2 pounds of any part of the plant of the genus Cannabis, whether growing or not, the seeds thereof, the resin extracted from any part of the plant, and every compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture, or preparation of the plant, its seeds, or resin including the completely defoliated mature stalks of the plant, fiber produced from the stalks, oil, or cake, or the completely sterilized samples of seeds of the plant which are incapable of germination is guilty of a felony, which felony shall be known as “trafficking in cannabis.” Nothing in this subdivision shall apply to samples of tetrahydrocannabinols including, but not limited to, all synthetic or naturally produced samples of tetrahydrocannabinols which contain more than 15 percent by weight of tetrahydrocannabinols and which do not contain plant material exhibiting the external morphological features of the plant cannabis.

Of course, that also means this is ILLEGAL in Alabama.