[1] The film was made to encourage farmers to grow hemp for the war effort because other industrial fibers, often imported from overseas, were in short supply.

Two VHS copies were recovered and donated to the Library of Congress on 19 May 1989 by Maria Farrow, Carl Packard, and Jack Herer.

In July 1989, Jack Herer together with Chris Wright, of the Grassroots Party, attempted to obtain a copy from the National Archives where it was listed, but the curators were unable to locate the film.

It is the work of several authors active in the hemp world, including Kenyon Gibson, Nick and Cindy Mackintosh, Woody Harrelson, Mina Hegaard and Sam Heslop.

Starring David Hayman, Howard Marks and Jack Herer, the funds for post production were not raised and the project was shelved.

The second part released at the 2009 Seattle HempFest had Steve Levine and Andrea Hermann on the speaker panel.