Investigative journalist and muckraking author of the “eye-opening and persuasive” (The New York Times Book Review) best-seller Too High to Fail: Cannabis and the New Green Economic Revolution, Doug Fine peeks into dank corners to find the straight dope on the burgeoning American hemp industry. In Hemp Bound: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Cannabis Economy, Fine  takes a road trip across North America to investigate the misunderstood plant’s pioneering 21^st century uses—from powering cars to insulating houses to healing damaged farmland—and posits that its decriminalization would bring in more taxable income than its smokable cousin. Fine is also the author of Farewell, My Subaru: An Epic Adventure in Local Living and Not Really an Alaskan Mountain Man.