Top 20 Quotes & Sayings by Jack Herer

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American activist Jack Herer.

Last updated on September 17, 2024.

Jack Herer, sometimes called the "Emperor of Hemp", was an American cannabis rights activist and the author of The Emperor Wears No Clothes, a book—in 2020 in its fourteenth edition after having been continuously in print for 35 years—frequently cited in efforts to decriminalize and legalize cannabis and to expand the use of hemp for industrial use. Herer also founded and served as the director of the organization Help End Marijuana Prohibition (HEMP). The Jack Herer Cup created by R. Foreman is held in Amsterdam, Colombia, Las Vegas, Oklahoma City and Thailand each year to honor the Worldwide Cannabis Legalization Movement that Jack Herer helped start.

American - Activist | June 18, 1939 - April 15, 2010

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

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

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

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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 sex I'd ever had.

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

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Our leaders are acting like lemmings.

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Hempseed produces no observable high for humans or birds.

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I was a normal American nerd.

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In fact, marijuana lowers your stress level and lowers your body temperature. It actually seems that people live longer if they use it. If you substitute marijuana for tobacco and alcohol, you'll add 24 years to your life.

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