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Encyclopedia > Jack Herer

Jack Herer is the author of The Emperor Wears No Clothes (ISBN 0-9524560-0-1) (several editions since c.1985), a book which has been used in efforts to decriminalize cannabis. The word author has several meanings: The author of a book, story, article or the like, is the person who has written it (or is writing it). ... Starting in 1973, Jack Herer took the advice of his friend Captain Ed Adair and began compiling tidbits of information about cannabis and its numerous uses. ... This article is about the year. ... Look up book on Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... A crime in a broad sense is an act that violates a political or moral law of any one person or social grouping. ... Species Cannabis indica Cannabis ruderalis Cannabis sativa Cannabis is a genus of flowering plant that includes one or more species. ...


A former Goldwater Republican, Herer is now an outspoken pro-marijuana and hemp activist. He has written two books, the aforementioned The Emperor Wears No Clothes and Grass. There has also been a documentary made about his life. He believes that the hemp plant should be decriminalized because it has been shown to be a renewable source of fuel, food, and medicine, and can be grown in virtually any part of the world. He has devoted his life to the support of cannabis, hemp and marijuana. Barry Goldwater Barry Morris Goldwater (January 1, 1909 – May 29, 1998) was a United States politician and a founding figure in the modern conservative movement in the USA. Goldwater personified the shift in balance in American culture from the Northeast to the West. ... The Republican Party, often called the GOP (for Grand Old Party, although one early citation described it as the Gallant Old Party) [1], is one of the two major political parties in the United States. ...


Jack Herer is also the name given to a specific strain of cannabis that is considered by many to be among the world's finest (see Overgrow Strainguide).


Quotes

  • "If all fossil fuels and their derivatives, as well as trees for paper and construction were banned in order to save the planet, reverse the Greenhouse Effect and stop deforestation; Then there is only one known annually renewable natural resource that is capable of providing the overal majority of the world's paper and textiles; meet all of the world's transportation, industrial and home energy needs, while simultaneously reducing pollution, rebuilding the soil, and cleaning the atmosphere all at the same time...And that substance is - the same one that did it all before - Cannabis Hemp...Marijuana!"

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Jack Herer - definition of Jack Herer in Encyclopedia (195 words)
Jack Herer is the author of The Emperor Has No Clothes (c.
A former Goldwater Republican, Herer is now an outspoken pro-marijuana and hemp activist.
Jack Herer is also the name given to a specific strain of cannabis (see Overgrow Strainguide (http://www.overgrow.com/strainguide/Sensi_Seeds/Jack_Herer/))
Emperor of Hemp Reviews and Raves featuring Jack Heror (3094 words)
Jack Herer is an entrepreneur of an idea, and of important knowledge that would certainly have surfaced sooner or later, but later might have been too late.
Jack was being accused of forging a hoax.
Herer would screen the film with glee at personal appearances, taking delight in the 14-minute newsreel that showed the government's ease in backing off the vilification of hemp it had advanced less than a decade before, desperate to take advantage of the plant George Washington urged to seed in every nook and cranny of America.
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