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Hemp bound : dispatches from the front lines of the next agricultural revolution / Doug Fine.

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Chelsea Green Publishing, 2014.

Hemp industry -- Government policy -- United States.

9781603585439 (pbk.)

1603585435 (pbk.)

xxxi, 152 pages ; 19 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-140) and index.

After-School snacks before Doritos -- Hemp gets out ring around the collar -- Turning a profit even with Medieval harvesting techniques -- Want to make it in the hemp game? Two words: dual cropping -- Grow your next house (or factory or office or high-rise or school) -- Heck, grow your whole tractor out of hemp -- Fill 'er up with hemp -- A new utility paradigm: the distributed, sustainable community energy grid -- Don't just legalize it, subsidize it -- Patriots ponder planting -- Hempucation immersion course -- Teach your regulators well.

"The men and women who are testing, researching, and pioneering hemp's applications for the twenty-first century. In Denver, author Doug Fine hitches a ride in a hemp-powered limo; in Asheville, North Carolina, hempcrete-insulated houses are sparking a mini housing boom; in Manitoba the author raps his knuckles on the hood of a hemp tractor; and finally in the fields of east Colorado, where practical farmers are looking toward hemp to restore their agricultural economy - we learn 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. Doug Fine is an investigative journalist and solar-powered goat herder. He is the author of 'Too high to fail : cannabis and the new green economic revolution'"--Provided by publisher.

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