Jack Herer (1939-2010)

The Emperor Wears No Clothes confirmed in great detail what many cannabis enthusiasts knew or suspected – that the forbidden weed and the world’s best natural fibre were one and the same. The book also argues that one of the main reasons cannabis was prohibited in the 1930s was to prevent it from being a serious (and superior) competitor to wood-pulp paper, cotton, synthetic fibres and patentable pharmaceutical medicines.

Cannabis is so efficient and versatile that it threatened several industrial monopolies and the fact that it was also used as a cheap and low-risk recreational substance (especially by people of 'undesirable' race or financial circumstances) was simply a convenient excuse to ban it.

Emperor also presented many other arguments that are now central to the modern hemp movement: that hemp cultivation requires no pesticides, herbicides or artificial fertilisers; that a hectare of hemp can produce four times as much paper as a hectare of trees; that hemp fibre needs a few if any chemicals to be turned into high quality paper and textiles, unlike the toxic processes needed to produce cotton and wood-pulp paper; that hemp can be cultivated as a highly nutritious food-crop and is an efficient source of fuels such as ethanol and bio-diesel.

Do not stand at my grave and weep,

I am not there, I do not sleep.

I am in a thousand winds that blow,

I am the softly falling snow.

I am the gentle showers of rain,

I am the fields of ripening grain.

I am in the morning hush,

I am in the graceful rush

Of beautiful birds in circling flight,

I am the starshine of the night.

I am in the flowers that bloom,

I am in a quiet room.

I am in the birds that sing,

I am in each lovely thing.

Do not stand at my grave and cry,

I am not there. I do not die.

jack was a guy allways fighting for the freedom of hemp and all its consummers and we all here should follow his way in our countrys...maybee that would be that what would jack make lucky when he can see it from heaven and im definitley sure he still be our guardian till the end of the fight for legalization of cannabis ...so lets do it like he did and help to legalize cannabis around the world...theres just one jack and he will ever be the first but in fact of his work it was possible that were here now and can enjoy cannabis...before his work it wasnt possible in many countrys to even grow hemp with low thc...so keep the fight further is what we have to do...for cannabis...for jack and all the others...