HEMP BOUND

An essential primer to one of the most remarkable and versatile seeds known to humankind: hemp. Yes, we all know that it will grow into a plant that can be harvested and smoked, but hemp also has a 4,000-year history as a highly nutritious food crop, and today is used as a fabric more durable than cotton as well as in countless industrial processes and applications. It can truly be called the King of all Seeds, and Fine pays it eloquent and witty tribute in his latest book.

Doug Fine is one of the most original writers and adventure journalists of our time. His penetrating and funny work combines the hard-core investigative chops that brought him to the front lines in Rwanda, Burma, and Tajikistan with the humor that brings in New Millennium audiences to his books, short films, and radio work by the hundreds of thousands. After growing up in the suburbs and rejecting the “doctor or lawyer” career choices, he slung on a backpack and reported for The Washington Post, The New York Times, Salon, U.S. News and World Report, Sierra, Wired, Outside, and other venues, from remote locations on five continents. He was shot at in Africa and stabbed in Asia. His Burma reporting was read into the Congressional Record, and he won more than a dozen press club awards for his reporting in Alaska. For his bestselling second book, "Farewell, My Subaru", Doug decided to embark on a “Hypocrisy Reduction Project” to see if he could live a truly sustainable lifestyle in a remote valley in New Mexico without giving up his Digital Age comforts or living like the Unabomber. Farewell, My Subaru garnered Doug his first appearances on The Tonight Show and CNN. His next book Too High to Fail immediately appeared on bestseller lists and has been glowingly reviewed from Outside to the New York Times, which called it a “well-researched book that uses the clever tactic of making the moral case for ending marijuana prohibition by burying it inside the economic case.” Doug now travels around the world speaking about his sustainability realizations and regularly contributes to NPR. His blog has been visited more than 300,000 times. It was while studying an obscure side of the cannabis plant (namely the discarded stalks) that Fine realized that industrial cannabis was likely to be a more valuable crop even than psychoactive cannabis. After researching the hemp industry worldwide for two years, his fourth book, Hemp Bound, was published one month after the US. Congress re-legalized hemp after 77 years. That book is being widely praised with Joel Salatin calling it “one of the most fun books you’ll ever read about the future of farming” and Willie Nelson declaring it “a blueprint for the future of America.”