Are you ready for America's new billion-dollar industry? Well, it's not really new. It's hemp. Hemp Bound shows us how hemp can change our diet and farms, restore our soil, and wean us from petroleum.
Hemp isn't marijuana. It's not psychoactive. It's fibers are among the strongest, it's seed oil is more nutritious than flax, and it's potential is waiting to be tapped. The United States imports millions of dollars of hemp from Canada. Shouldn't American farmers be growing it?
For almost eighty years, it'd been illegal to grow industrial cannabis--even though Betsy Ross wove the first American flag out of hemp fabric, Thomas Jefferson composed the Declaration of Independence on it, and colonists paid their taxes with it. Is there anything more American than hemp?
Doug Fine takes us on a journey to see the men and woman who are testing, researching, and pioneering hemp's reemergence in the twenty-first century. You'll wonder why we ever stopped cultivating this crop. Maybe soon we will see fields of hemp from sea to shining sea...
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