{"id":236311,"date":"2014-07-01T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/round-lake.dustinice.workers.dev:443\/https\/reason.com\/2014\/07\/01\/hemp-for-america\/"},"modified":"2014-07-01T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-01T16:00:00","slug":"hemp-for-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/round-lake.dustinice.workers.dev:443\/https\/reason.com\/2014\/07\/01\/hemp-for-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Hemp for America!"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"alignright\"><\/figure> <p>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.<\/p> <p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/round-lake.dustinice.workers.dev:443\/https\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1603585435\/ref=nosim?tag=reasonmagazinea-20\"> <em>Hemp Bound: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Next Agricultural Revolution<\/em><\/a> (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, entrepreneurs, and politicians.<\/p> <p>Along the way, Fine exposes us to hemp's many environmental, economic, and health benefits. He's especially excited about its potential as a cash crop. As one Colorado farmer and self-styled \"patriot\" tells Fine, \"America's going to be stronger with hemp in her fields. We're talking about opening markets, and all kinds of legitimate commerce that'll result.\" <em>-Elizabeth Nolan Brown<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence on hemp paper, and Betsy Ross made her first flag with the stuff.<a href=\"https:\/\/round-lake.dustinice.workers.dev:443\/https\/reason.com\/2014\/07\/01\/hemp-for-america\/\">&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1237,"featured_media":2328169,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"post_subtitle":"","footnotes":"","beyondwords_generate_audio":"","beyondwords_project_id":"","beyondwords_content_id":"","beyondwords_integration_method":"","beyondwords_language_code":"","beyondwords_language_id":"","beyondwords_body_voice_id":"","beyondwords_delete_content":"","beyondwords_source":"","beyondwords_output":"","beyondwords_script_template_id":"","beyondwords_video_template_id":"","beyondwords_video_size":"","beyondwords_embed":"","beyondwords_podcast_id":"","speechkit_generate_audio":"","speechkit_project_id":"","speechkit_podcast_id":""},"categories":[101504,5,7],"tags":[101072],"newsletter":[],"ttd_topic":[600547,660204,594124,701788,594249,593822,593928],"coauthors":[{"display_name":"Elizabeth Nolan Brown","id":301237,"user_id":1237}],"class_list":["post-236311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-culture","category-war-on-drugs","tag-hemp","print-article-type-briefly-noted","issue-july-2014","ttd_topic-betsy-ross","ttd_topic-chelsea-green","ttd_topic-colorado","ttd_topic-doug-fine","ttd_topic-thomas-jefferson","ttd_topic-united-states","ttd_topic-united-states-declaration-of-independence"],"acf":{"post_subtitle":""},"subtitle":"","categories_and_tags":[{"name":"Culture","id":5,"taxonomy":"category"},{"name":"War on Drugs","id":7,"taxonomy":"category"},{"name":"Hemp","id":101072,"taxonomy":"post_tag"},{"name":"Book Reviews","id":101504,"taxonomy":"category"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/round-lake.dustinice.workers.dev:443\/https\/reason.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/round-lake.dustinice.workers.dev:443\/https\/reason.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/round-lake.dustinice.workers.dev:443\/https\/reason.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/round-lake.dustinice.workers.dev:443\/https\/reason.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/round-lake.dustinice.workers.dev:443\/https\/reason.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/round-lake.dustinice.workers.dev:443\/https\/reason.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/round-lake.dustinice.workers.dev:443\/https\/reason.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2328169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/round-lake.dustinice.workers.dev:443\/https\/reason.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/round-lake.dustinice.workers.dev:443\/https\/reason.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/round-lake.dustinice.workers.dev:443\/https\/reason.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236311"},{"taxonomy":"newsletter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/round-lake.dustinice.workers.dev:443\/https\/reason.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newsletter?post=236311"},{"taxonomy":"ttd_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/round-lake.dustinice.workers.dev:443\/https\/reason.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ttd_topic?post=236311"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/round-lake.dustinice.workers.dev:443\/https\/reason.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=236311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/round-lake.dustinice.workers.dev:443\/https\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}