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Start giftingAmerican Hemp
How Growing Our Newest Cash Crop Can Improve Our Health, Clean Our Environment, and Slow Climate Change
Length
12 hours 31 minutes
Language
English
Narrators
Pete Cross & Melanie Carey
This audiobook uses AI narration.
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Learn moreDecember of 2018 marked a largely unprecedented victory for cannabis. The 2018 Farm Bill passed, and, with it, hemp became legal. What the federal government listed for decades as a schedule 1 narcotic was finally classified as an agricultural crop, giving great promise to the rise of a new American hemp industry. Filled with catchall research, American Hemp examines what this new domestic crop can be used for, what makes it a superior product, and what made it illegal in the first place; the book also delves into the many health and medical benefits of the plant. Hobbs weighs in on how hemp can improve existing industries, from farming to energy to 3D printing, plus how it can make a serious impact on climate change by removing toxins from the soil and by decreasing our dependence on plastics and fossil fuels. American Hemp lays out where we are as a nation on expanding this entirely new (yet ancient) domestic industry while optimistically reasoning that by sowing hemp, we can grow a better future and save the planet in the process.
Jen Hobbs has been a publicity consultant for the greater part of her career, representing Oscar and Emmy Award-winning clients as well as politicians and authors. She has worked behind-the-scenes with Jesse Ventura since 2007 and shares his enthusiasm for searching for the truth. In 2016, she co-authored Jesse Ventura’s Marijuana Manifesto, which inspired this book. After visiting and living in several states and countries, she currently resides with her husband in O'Fallon, Missouri.
Pete Cross is an award-winning audiobook narrator and engineer who earned his MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. A multiple Earphones Awards winner and Audie finalist, he was nominated for a SOVAS award for his narration of Moby Dick and received the 2022 Audie Award for Ryan La Sala’s Be Dazzled and the 2023 Odyssey Award for Ryan La Sala’s The Honeys.
Melanie Carey is a classically trained actor and audiobook narrator who has recorded over fifty titles. After earning her bachelor's degree in drama from the University of Washington, she went on to complete an acting intensive at the Marymount College London Drama Program. Before coming to audiobooks, she worked in theater, hypnosis, and yoga. She currently resides in Seattle.