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Twenty-six years after I introduced shelled hempseed to millions of people on CBS-TV by making hemp potato salad with Roseanne Barr on her talk show, the product HempNut inspired ends up on comedy show “Hacks” in a cooking segment. 0:14
Here is super-Hempster Ben Dronkers talking about the early days (1990s) at the Cannabis Cups in Amsterdam, with innovation and new products galore. Ben is our “Obi-wan Hempobi,” the most successful hemp businessman in our lifetime, fiber and grain. Owner of HempFlax and Sensi Seeds. 0:47, at ICBC in Berlin 2015.
Until the invention of the decorticator, breaking hemp stalk by hand was one of the hardest jobs on the farm. From Hemp For Victory, 0:05, 1942.
A hemp food montage produced by film-maker DJ Nicke. 0:51, 2016.
A clip from the documentary Hemp Hemp Hooray on hemp food, with Alan Brady and RR. 3:13, 1995.
Jay Leno on The Tonight Show joking about “how rich the dude must be who invented hemp cheese.” Yes, that would be me. 0:34, 1999.
Tommy Chong j0king how I invented the Bite Me chocolate bar on The Tonight Show. 0:51, 1999.
Jay Leno on The Tonight Show joking about how a pizza shop in LA makes HempRella pizzas. 0:55. 1999.
The Evolution of Hemp, 10000 BC to 2017. 0:34, 2017.
Richard on The Roseanne Show talking about why hemp fiber is so cool. CBS-TV, 1:37, 1999.
Richard Rose on The Roseanne Show joking about hemp food, “it’s so healthy you can eat twice as much.” CBS-TV, 0:39, 1999.
CannHarvest Field Day on Hobart News 7, Tasmania, Australia. 1:28. 2019.
“And half a teaspoon of Oregano. Oregano, not to be confused with Hemp.” CBS-TV, 1999, 0:06.
Getting hemp on the CBS This Morning in 1995 was quite an accomplishment. This features early advocates Jake Graves and Gale Glenn from Kentucky, and Don Wirtshafter from Ohio. 1 of 2, 1:23.
Ironically, hemp was in the national popular media way more three decades ago than today. Here, Hattie Kauffman and Harry Smith discuss hemp and food on “CBS This Morning” in 1995. 1:29.
This story on the 30th anniversary of the Hash Bash in Ann Arbor MI inexplicably pulled stock footage of HempNut foods. 2002. 0:25.
Here is “Consumer Bob” talking about hemp foods in 1995 on “News 8.” 1:29.
The Evolution of Hemp, 10000 BC to 2017. 0:35, 2017.
In 2014 the “Ice Bucket Challenge” was all the rage, so I started the “Hemp Bucket Challenge.” Caren Kershner‘s went viral and she made new friends around the world. 9,361 Shares and 590,000 views in just a few months. 0:45.
How Leotele Botanicals makes full-spectrum CBD oil for a customer from certified organic Colorado hemp. 0: 2020.
The main advantage of narrow-interest expos is the meeting of colleagues, such as a conference or congress. Here Prof. Slingerland, author of “Drunk,” discusses the effect not having them has on industry innovation and collaboration. 0:51.
Here is Richard telling the Portuguese reporter how hempseed can be used as food, at the 1994 Cannabis Cup in Amsterdam. 0:34.
VAC Roundtable #88: Richard Rose — Trailblazing Hemp Pioneer & Industry Innovator (March 2025)
In this special episode, we sit down with hemp pioneer Richard Rose, a trailblazer in the industry with decades of experience in hemp-based food, policy advocacy, and innovation.
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Here is a Portuguese news report filmed at the 1994 7th Annual Cannabis Cup in Amsterdam. Edited for English content and brevity. With Jack Herer, Sean Munro, DJ Monica, Richard Rose (with hat and guitar, getting a fully-clothed massage, and discussing and sampling hemp food), Pascale Lagouge and Franck Machy, Dion Markgraaf, Eagle Bill and his vaporizer, Julia Sparrow, Chris Conrad, Larry Duprey, Andy Waller, and Ian Low. Filmed at the Greenhouse and Pax Partyhouse, among others.
A few notes: I did as much hemp food as I could using charm and free food. The Pax café sold Hempeh Burgers with HempRella cheese, the Melkweg café also had that combo. On Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 4:20pm I gave away free slices of HempRella pizza in the Pax foyer, which at times was as crowded as Times Square on New Years Eve. There is no better way to meet people than to give away pizza.
I kept the program at subsequent Cups. A few years later Michael Kennedy (High Times/Cannabis Cup lawyer/boss/owner) was there, a rare event. The VIP dinner at the Pax had HempNut encrusted portobello mushrooms stuffed with melted HempRella, and HempNut hempseed oil in the salad.
Carrying a bunch of weird U.S. hemp foods in shipping boxes to Schipol Airport Customs resulted in a 6 hour wait. HempNut, HempRella, Hempeh Burger, oil, and my personal Tofurky in a suitcase. I refused to leave without them, so they eventually took a package of each for testing and let it go. The Herbal Ecstasy guys weren’t so lucky. On the return I watched SFO Customs pop Jack Herer for literally milligrams of cannabis flower in his pockets. Notice Ian Low says max THC in UK at that time was 0.3%, since then they lowered it to 0.2%.
Lastly, Eagle Bill. He pioneered the vaporizer to many of us. Using a Black and Decker paint stripping heat gun, he heated flowers just enough to vaporize the trichomes but not combust the rest. That same basic principle went on the become the Volcano vaporizer, in 2000 Canopy bought Volcano producer Storz and Bickel for $220 million.
Mostly in English with some French, Portuguese subtitles. 11:54, 1994.
This is at the 2015 Colorado Department of Agriculture’s year in review for the hemp program, where the department head lambastes hemp activists for pushing for 1% max THC since there was a major election cycle the following year. He also talked about how he would allow DEA to intimidate him despite it having zero jurisdiction in hemp per a 2004 Ninth Circuit court ruling.
Only three years later he was gone and Amendment X was passed by voters to allow the state’s max THC for hemp to go to 1% or even higher. But with the subsequent creation of the “hemp THC” gray-market drug industry, 1% is but a pipe dream as is domestically-grown true hemp, grain and fiber. 2:37, 2015.