Cannabis is the
King Kong of King Kongs of all plant life.
Prove
us wrong!
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- Subject: Message
from Jack Herer
Hi. The following
message will be included in Jack's updated version of
"The Emperor Wears No Clothes." Please let us
know what you think of it, and feel free to distribute it
to everyone you know.
Thank you.
Jeannie Herer
Prove us wrong! Prove us wrong! Prove us wrong!
And we hereby extend our $100,000 challenge to prove us
wrong!
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
overall 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 has done it before... Cannabis/Hemp/Marijuana!
CANNABIS HEMP is the only known plant that can be grown
from the Equator to the Arctic Circle and to the
Antarctic Circle; from the mountains to the valleys, from
the oceans to the plains, including arid lands and
everywhere in between. CANNABIS HEMP is the healthiest
plant for the ground out of the 3 1/2 million plants on
Earth, because it has a root system that grows 10-12
inches in 30 days compared to one inch for rye or barley
grass. The roots penetrate up to 16 feet deep and after
harvest it leaves a root system that is mulched into the
ground. It is the King Kong of King Kongs of all plant
life.
All of my information about CANNABIS HEMP has been taken
from Federal and State Department of Agriculture reports,
articles from Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Pulp
& Paper Magazine, Scientific American, entries from
encyclopedias and pharmacoepias, and studies from all
over the world during the last 200 years. This is all
public information. The United States government is
hiding the fact that 125 years ago, and even as far back
as 4000 BC, 80 percent of our economy was based on the
use of CANNABIS HEMP for paper, fiber and fuel. Ten to 20
percent of our economy was based on CANNABIS HEMP
medicines, 125 years ago.
CANNABIS HEMP was part of our everyday life. Every farm
had a hemp patch growing. This cover-up outrages me and
it should outrage you, too. I have been studying about
CANNABIS HEMP for over 30 years, and I can't believe how
the U.S. government, in 90 seconds in Congress, could
outlaw "MARIJUANA" in 1937, without the people
realizing they were outlawing CANNABIS HEMP, the most
perfect plant for the planet! They even got other
countries to outlaw it, too, after the Second World
War. From 1840 to 1940, 80 percent of all the
world's hemp was grown in, and imported from, Russia.
With the technology of the decorticator, CANNABIS HEMP
would have taken over the cotton market, as it is far
superior to cotton. I will again reiterate a few of the
facts about CANNABIS/HEMP/MARIJUANA, which you already
know.
CANNABIS/HEMP/MARIJUANA was the number ONE annually
renewable natural resource for 80 percent of all paper,
fiber and fuel. From 6000 years ago to 125 years
ago, it was used for food, light, land and soil
reclamation, and even 20 percent of all medicine.
Everyone, from the educated to the uneducated, the farmer
to the townsperson, the doctors and the scientists used
hemp products and depended on them until about 125 years
ago.
Seventy-five to 90 percent of all paper used from at
least 100 AD to 1883 was made of CANNABIS HEMP. Books,
including Bibles, money and newspapers all over the world
have been mainly printed on CANNABIS HEMP for as long as
these things have existed in human history. They were
printed on hemp exclusively!
Seventy to 90 percent of all rope, twine, cordage and
ship sails, 125 years ago, were made out of CANNABIS HEMP
fiber, until it was replaced by petrochemical fibers in
1937 and 1938. By comparison, CANNABIS HEMP is four times
softer than cotton, four times warmer, four times more
water absorbent, has three times the strength of cotton,
is many times more durable and doesn't use pesticides
like cotton, and is flame retardant. Fifty percent of all
pesticides are used on cotton, and cotton uses only one
percent of the farmland.
Of all the 3 1/2 million plants on Earth, no other plant
source can compare with the nutritional value of CANNABIS
HEMP seeds. It is the
only plant on Earth that has essential amino acids,
essential fatty acids and protein and essential oils
combined. It is the healthiest plant for human
consumption.
Prior to the 1800s, HEMPSEED oil was the number ONE
source for lighting oil throughout the world. As late as
1937, even paints and varnishes were 80 percent HEMPSEED
oil. CANNABIS HEMP is non-toxic and has been used to make
high-grade diesel fuel, oil, aircraft and precision oil
and even the number ONE vegetable oil. HEMP is the best
sustainable source of plant pulp for biomass fuel to make
charcoal, gas, methanol, gasoline and electricity in a
natural way.
As a medicine, the use of MARIJUANA goes back 6000 years.
It has been found to be healthy and effective in the
treatment of chronic pain,
cancer, strokes, glaucoma, multiple sclerosis, sickle
cell anemia, AIDS wasting and many other illnesses,
including simple nausea, appetite
stimulant and anxiety. On September 6, 1988, the Drug
Enforcement Administration's Chief Administrative Law
Judge, Francis L. Young,
ruled: "Marijuana, in its natural form, is one
of the safest therapeutically active substances known to
man," and asked the Drug
Enforcement Agency to reschedule it. The DEA refused,
keeping it as a Schedule I drug, which they say "has
no known medical use" ? from 1937 to 2002!
Nobody has ever died from marijuana in 6000 years...
unless they were shot by a cop!
CANNABIS HEMP was used for land reclamation until 1915.
HEMP was planted or left to grow feral as ground cover
and not intended for harvest. It is the number ONE plant
to prevent mudslides and loss of watershed, and river and
soil erosion.
What disgusts me the most is how the government, as well
as the people, knew about HEMP and praised its value and
then what happened? In literally 90 seconds, the
Marijuana Tax Act of 1937 passed in Congress.
By using the unknown name "marijuana" instead
of the familiar name "cannabis hemp", Congress
was able to accomplish this because no one knew what
plant they were talking about. HEMP became illegal and
was replaced by petrochemical products. They made it such
a banned and forbidden plant that the word
"hemp" was not even taught in schools in the
1940s, 50s and thereafter. In 1850, 80 percent of all
paper, fibers and fuel were made out of CANNABIS in
America and the rest of the world.
The role of HEMP was erased from America's history (as
well as most of the rest of the world's) after 1945 and
1950. To prove it, think...what
did you learn about HEMP in school? Nothing! The
continuing suppression of this information by the
government places us all in mortal jeopardy.
Here we have a plant that, in conjunction with wind,
solar, tidal and hydroelectric power, can save the planet
by providing all of our energy,
fuel, paper, fiber and medical needs naturally, all while
reducing acid rain, chemical pollution and rebuilding the
soil, while reversing the
greenhouse effect (no other plant can do this!), and our
government wants to eradicate this seed, out of the 3 1/2
million seeds on Earth.
HEMP was used to make over 25,000 products before it was
outlawed in 1937. They want to kill the most perfect
plant on the planet. You should get mad at your
government for doing this and for leaving it out of our
schools.
Eighty percent of our economy depended on HEMP for paper,
fiber and fuel, 125 years ago. At that time, it took 300
man hours to harvest an
acre of HEMP, but with the invention of the brand new
decorticator in 1930, it only took one-and-a-half to two
hours. This is equivalent to
reducing the labor burden from $6,000 down to $40 per
acre in today's money. Keep in mind that the cotton gin,
in 1793, reduced the man-hours from 300 hours down to two
hours to harvest an acre of cotton. The role of CANNABIS
should be determined by market supply and demand and not
by undue influence of prohibition laws, federal subsidies
and huge tariffs that keep the natural from replacing the
synthetic. MARIJUANA is the KING KONG of the King Kongs
of all plants.
Attorney General John Ashcroft, DEA head Asa Hutchison,
and White House Drug Czar John Walters have been given
all of these proven facts and yet are still set against
the legalization of marijuana and recognition of HEMP
knowledge. For whatever personal reasons, they refuse to
believe the facts and are willing to sacrifice the future
of our planet and the health of our people by keeping it
illegal. The ban of CANNABIS HEMP is so extreme and its
intention is to hide the truth, and the truth is that out
of the 3 1/2 million plants on Earth, HEMP is the number
ONE plant for our survival and quality of life here on
Earth. The government calls Marijuana users
"terrorists" and yet the government of the
United States has been "terrorizing" us
for the last 67 years!
No one has taken the $100,000 challenge to prove me
wrong. Why? Because I am right. The U.S. government has
been lying to us since the early 1900s. Do economic
interests have more to say than the people about the
future of our planet?
Jack Herer
June 2002
www.jackherer.com
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