Hi, everybody. It's Bean and welcome to an all-new episode of great moments in weed history,

wishing you a happy weedness day. If you're listening to this episode on the day it was released

and reminding you that, of course, every day is weedness day as long as you got some weed.

I'm incredibly excited to share this weed's episode with you all, because we are going to

once and for all answer the question, can hemp save the world?

Spoiler alert, yes, it can.

And I say that with confidence after speaking with our guest today,

who is someone who has fully envisioned a hempy future for humanity,

one where the cannabis plant in all forms helps us to decentralize and relocalize our energy production,

our economic systems, our ecology, and our connection to

Mother Earth. If you're thinking we must be talking with the man, Jack Herrer rhymes with

terror, the Hempterer himself. I've got some unfortunate news for you, which is that he passed away quite a few years

ago. The good news is we do have an entire episode of great moments in weed history in the

archive called Jack Herrer Green Pilled the World. So if you know the man or you know the strain, but you don't know the story,

please, please go back and listen to that one. It was recorded live in Los Angeles. Definitely

a favorite. But today, we are going to talk with one and only living legend, Doug Fine. He's a friend of the podcast, a friend of

mine, and a self-described solar-powered goat herder, a comedic investigative journalist,

and a leading advocate for regenerative farming in all forms, including, of course, cannabis slash hemp.

Doug's books, and tell me if you detect a pattern here, include American hemp farmer,

his latest, hemp bound, the book in which he outlined this vision of a hemp-powered future for the world.

An excellent book called Too High to Fail.

That was one of the first comprehensive looks at the new legal weed economy

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