The Hemp Institute’s primary focus lies on immediate decriminalization of medical cannabis users and the personal growing of cannabis while establishing itself as a resource for all cannabis data in Austria.

Promote cannabis as

• Medicine

• Relaxant

• Food

• Fiber as basic material

• sustainable and climate neutral energy source

Establish and maintain relevant contacts with

• lawmakers

• expert groups

• media

• health professionals

• patients and their families

• education sector

Provide

• evidence based information on the hemp plant in all its aspects

Collect data and information

• building a hemp resource for a German speaking audience in the first stage

• expanding to more European languages

Help to rewrite Austrian drug laws

• based on scientific evidence and the experience of 20 years of MMJ use in the USA.