Jack Herer Quotes

• You see, the Greenhouse Effect is a direct result of burning fossil or old carbon fuels.

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• When I went off to the army when I was 17 years old, I believed in America and the rights of freedom. But today I believe my government is lying to the American people and that my president, George Bush, is a criminal.

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• This girl wanted me to experience something I’d never experienced. She tried three times to get me high. Finally it worked, and I had the most incredible s*x I’d ever had.

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• Well, as I understand it, the main supporters are beer companies and the pharmaceutical companies. I’d like them to show me the dead bodies from marijuana. But they can’t because there aren’t any.

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• The only dead bodies from marijuana are in the prisons and at the hands of the police. This is ridiculous.

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• Rag paper, containing hemp fiber, is the highest quality and longest lasting paper ever made. It can be torn when wet, but returns to its full strength when dry.

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• Our leaders are acting like lemmings.

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• My family moved to Buffalo, New York in 1940 where I was raised.

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• Many artists and writers have used cannabis for creative stimulation – from the writers of the world’s religious masterpieces to our most irreverent satirists.

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• If you substitute marijuana for tobacco and alcohol, you’ll add eight to 24 years to your life.

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• I’ve lived in Los Angeles for at least 24 years.

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• I was a normal American nerd.

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• I was 30 years old and this girl I knew found out I had never gotten high. Nobody had ever told me about marijuana.

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• I don’t want to wait 20 or 50 years for something to be done about petrochemical pollution.

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• Hempseed produces no observable high for humans or birds.

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• Growing hemp as nature designed it is vital to our urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases and ensure the survival of our planet.

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• But you can count the dead bodies from alcohol, tobacco, and legal pharmaceuticals by the millions.

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Jack Herer (17)

Birth:	18th June, 1939
Death:	15th April, 2010
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Activist, Author

About

Jack Herer was born in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He was an American cannabis activist and the author of The Emperor Wears No Clothes. He also founded and served as the director of the organization Help End Marijuana Prohibition. As an activist he taught that the cannabis plant should be decriminalized and argued that it could be used as a renewable source of fuel, medicine, food, fiber and paper/pulp and that it can be grown in virtually any part of the world for medicinal as well as economical purposes.

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