New Zealand's high-grade hemp specialists - since 1996.
The Hemp Store Aotearoa was founded in 1996 by Chris Fowlie, Nandor Tanczos and Mike Finlayson, all prominent cannabis law reform advocates. We aim to provide premium quality hemp products to a wide range of customers, and spearhead the establishment of an environmentally sustainable and economically sound hemp industry in New Zealand.
The focus of The Hemp Store is social ecology - a philosophy that states that how we treat people is intrinsically linked to how we treat the environment, and vice versa.
Social Ecology brings together concerns about global environmental degradation and questions of social justice and exploitation. The Hemp Store has been established to take concrete steps towards increasing the well-being of the planet and its people.
The Planet
The Hemp Store is committed to restoring ecological balance through reducing the unsustainable use of natural resources, through developing renewable alternatives, through developing environmentally and economically sustainable production and processing technologies, and through facilitating bioregional development in the Pacific region.
The People
The Hemp Store seeks to increase local and individual autonomy by increasing people's access to information and choices, by establishing and promoting co-operative work structures, by helping to regenerate rural economies, and by supporting the take of just causes.
