Several of the Founding Father were hemp farmers, including George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and John Adams. It had nothing to do with marijuana, which is a special, artificial cultivar.
It is so valuable that the USA legally reversed itself in 1942, encouraging farmers to grow it for the war effort, even producing a propaganda film for that purpose: Hemp for Victory.
Hemp is the source of highly durable fiber, and highly nutritious food.
Sailing ship hawsers were often called hemp, because that was the fiber from which they were made. It is much stronger than cotton. (Some are convinced that the first Levi’s jeans were made from hemp.)
The fatty acid profile is close to ideal for humans: It contains both EFAs, and both first derivatives:
Omega-6:
Linoleic Acid [EFA}
Gamma-Linolenic Acid
Omega-3:
Alpha-Linolenic Acid [EFA]
Stearidonic Acid
The shelled nut (achene) meat is about 30% protein, with a superior amino acid profile to soy protein, and greater digestibility. It is highly unusual in that it is about two-thirds globulin protein.
Hemp protein was one of the first natural substances studied in the Nineteenth Century at the dawn of modern chemistry.
Of course, we get so much Omega-6 elsewhere in our diet that a higher Omega-3 would be better coming from hemp oil, or any other addition to what we eat.
You do realize that the ALA profile for omega 3 means that there is only about 5% available for absorption, don’t you?
There are so many falsehoods used on foods and drinks with flax and chia it’s become an urban myth that humans can digest ALA like animals. It’s false labeling that remains unchallenged.
To the contrary, it’s expensive fiber . Hemp is in this category, as with its seeds with a compromising profile of omega 6.