Hemp: What The World Needs Now details the history and uses of the world's most versatile plant. It tells how hemp can be used to create a more sustainable economy, reduce fossil fuel use, save our forests, absorb greenhouse gasses, improve farmland, and help struggling family farmers survive. It debunks the myths, rumors, and lies surrounding the plant, and covers issues relating to poliitcal and corporate corruption keeping industial hemp farming illegal in the U.S. since the 1930s.