It seems so, but….so far the only articles I can find are associated with marijuana production such as the “High Times” publication. I cannot confirm if Svalbard is storing any hemp seeds.
Considering it’s legal in MANY places, and that it has many uses other than just ingesting, they’d have to be anti-science not to. Then again, they’d also be foolish to admit they did considering the anti-pot crowd would march on them with pitchforks if they did admit it.
One problem that might occur is that we have a ‘conservative’ government in power now, so who knows what might happen.
sorry, nothing in English, but here is something in Norwegian. Apparently, anyone can offer seeds, so this article is about an offer of seeds from Spain.
It is pretty much saying that cannabis seed is not there and not on their list of priorities at Svalbard, the offer came from an official seed bank in Spain, so someone is keeping them, but just not Svalbard.