Jack Herer Quotes

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Jack Herer

Profession : Activist

Birth : June 18, 1939

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

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

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

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I was a normal American nerd.

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Our leaders are acting like lemmings.

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

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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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Hempseed produces no observable high for humans or birds.

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