Hemp Bound: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Next Agricultural Revolution
Doug Fine
Language: English
Pages: 192
ISBN: 1603585435
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
The stat sheet on hemp sounds almost too good to be true: its fibers are among the planet’s strongest, its seed oil the most nutritious, and its potential as an energy source vast and untapped. Its one downside? For nearly a century, it’s been illegal to grow industrial cannabis in the United States–even though Betsy Ross wove the nation’s first flag out of hemp fabric, Thomas Jefferson composed the Declaration of Independence on it, and colonists could pay their taxes with it. But as the prohibition on hemp’s psychoactive cousin winds down, one of humanity’s longest-utilized plants is about to be reincorporated into the American economy. Get ready for the newest billion-dollar industry.
In Hemp Bound:Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Next Agricultural Revolution, bestselling author Doug Fine embarks on a humorous yet rigorous journey to meet the men and women who are testing, researching, and pioneering hemp’s applications for the twenty-first century. From Denver, where Fine hitches a ride in a hemp-powered limo; to Asheville, North Carolina, where carbon-negative hempcrete-insulated houses are sparking a mini housing boom; to Manitoba where he raps his knuckles on the hood of a hemp tractor; and finally to the fields of east Colorado, where practical farmers are looking toward hemp to restore their agricultural economy―Fine learns how eminently possible it is for this misunderstood plant to help us end dependence on fossil fuels, heal farm soils damaged after a century of growing monocultures, and bring even more taxable revenue into the economy than its smokable relative.
Fine’s journey will not only leave you wondering why we ever stopped cultivating this miracle crop, it will fire you up to sow a field of it for yourself, for the nation’s economy, and for the planet.
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“When I returned home, I was doing some environmental work, but dealing with a lot of pot cases at a terrible time. You had Nancy Reagan, mandatory minimum sentencing—people going away for ten years for two joints—and the good-faith exception [which allows illegally obtained evidence to be admitted in court in some cases]—all the defenses that were taken away that made criminal law so gruesome in the 1980s. I saw my whole peer group getting taken down or at least getting very secretive about this.
The Composite Innovation Centre’s Simon Potter. I do this not because his point of view concurs with both this book’s thesis and my dreams, but because he is, in an Aristotelian sense, a reliable source. That is to say, Potter’s genuinely not a political hempster. He gets paid no matter what the best fibers turn out to be in the lab. And they’re turning out, in areas ranging from roofing to insulation to aircraft bodies, to be industrial cannabis fibers. “We’ve been cultivating this plant for.
Enough seed is available, according to Bowman. Resources The list of players in all of these categories is going to be growing exponentially in coming months and years. These resources are intended just to get the interested hemp farmer or entrepreneur started. It’s written at the tail end of the era when the professional hemp world was a small family. Hemp Political Advocacy and Industry Groups The following organizations can provide resources useful in working toward hemp cultivation and.
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From hemp), Potter told me in the understatement of the day, “There’s considerable interest in [industrial cannabis] materials.” Shuffling through his desk, he added, “I have reports right here just on European, Australian, and Canadian textile applications . . . The economics of hemp have a very bright future.” Hemp Pioneers Simon Potter, Biologist, Sector Manager for Product Innovation, CIC The forty-five-year-old Potter is excited to come to work every day, and this, of course, is a.