Hemp for America!(Briefly Noted) (Hemp Bound: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Next Agricultural Revolution ) (Brief article) (Book review)

• Author: Brown, Elizabeth Nolan

Thomas Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence on hemp paper, and Betsy Ross made her first flag with the stuff. But since 1937, hemp--the non-psychoactive form of the cannabis plant--has been illegal to grow in the United States.

In Hemp Bound: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Next Agricultural Revolution (Chelsea Green), Doug Fine details how much we're losing under this pointless prohibition. This short, lively book is far from polemical or proselytizing. Rather, Fine takes us on a narrative journey that includes visits with farmers, scientists, engineers...