After decades as a long-haul trucker, Finn Murphy left the road and settled in Boulder County, Colorado.
Told with Murphy\'s trademark wit, keen eye for character, and sharp insights into the hardscrabble society around him, Rocky Mountain High is an inside look at the alluring world of the hemp Boom and a masterful Tale of one entrepreneur\'s misadventures..
Pretty soon, Murphy is pitting his dwindling cash against the mercurial buyers who inhabit the Wild West of the hemp market.
And he assembles an eclectic crew of workers, including the wry and vastly talented Manuel, the business savvy Pierce, and a scruffy army of trimmigrants--specialized farm laborers who roam the country pursuing (or not) their own American Dreams.
He battles with freezing temperatures and even colder bankers.
He builds drying sheds the size of football fields.
Pivoting away from growing hemp himself, he decides to make himself a middleman.
Rocky Mountain High is the comic chronicle of a Wild year as Murphy follows his Great American Dream, gradually losing his shirt but not his spirit.
What could go wrong? Well, pretty much everything...
Figuring he\'d harvest some of that easy money, Murphy bought a thirty-six-acre farm.
When hemp was legalized, after eighty years in federal exile, Colorado became the center of a hemp growing and processing boom.
Before long he noticed that many of his neighbors were captivated by the prospect of vast riches in the Hemp Space.
After decades as a long-haul trucker, Finn Murphy left the road and settled in Boulder County, Colorado
