Hemp and the Marijuana Conspiracy: Emperor Wears No Clothes
Hemp and the Marijuana Conspiracy: Emperor Wears No Clothes Books
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Jack Herer has updated his authoritative history of hemp’s myriad uses and of the war on this plant, just as it has become high-profile news, with supporters such as Woody Harrelson and Willie Nelson. Herer painstakingly documents the petrochemical industry’s plot to outlaw this renewable source of paper, energy, food, textiles, and medicine. Photos, illustrations & charts. 10 tables.
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I wish that the world may possibly get it together, and start being more responsible. If this book is right then it sounds like hemp is the way to do that. It can be used for so many different things, an alternitive source of fuel, for clothing, for paper products. If you listen to what the author says, then there are more uses, but with the oil companies and every other huge money making market that may possibly be replased by cheaper, better, envirenmentaly safe hemp products in control, we will never see that. The auther also prases the effects of marijuana. Another product of hemp, nearly saying that it has no effect on you and that it is excellent for you. This (I know from experence is not right.) I heard it place so well by someone, I don’t remember who (Pot makes you feel fine with doing nothing). And when you are doing nothing your life can start to fall apart.
Rating: 3 / 5
Jack Herer’s scrapbook of in rank and argumentation was delightful as it was entertaining. I urge reading this on the basis of pure enjoyment. Go ahead, have fun, nourish the pothead within. You can hear him. He’s screaming to come out. I’m curious, in all genuineness, does anyone know of any scholarly/critical reviews on this book. It has me thought, but it is hard to to trust its legitimacy based on its tabloid like appearance. Is there a community of sympathetic scholars that agree with anything that said in here, or am I giving this book more credit and it deserves? I am not a pothead myself, but after reading this book I can say I and sympathetic to their cause. The question that comes to my mind after reading this book is: if the government has allowed Alcohol and tobacco, which are far more destructive to society, why hasn’t allowed marijuana? Why wasn’t it an come forth until the 1930s? If the government is really so concerned with our health why don’t they ban McDonald’s and other quick food places? I am interested in hear a response to Jack Herer’s arguments from somebody… Work with me people, if anyone knows of such a work, may possibly they please post it on Amazon. There has to be authoritative objectives to this book if it has any legitimacy.
Rating: 3 / 5
Historians strongly disagree with this book’s claim to be an “authoritative historical” work: there is very small ‘history’ here. As a researcher myself, I would make the following brief comments on a mere handful of the book’s distortions to serve as examples:
1) There was no accusation of cannabis possession or other drug usage in the trial of Joan of Arc: the transcript of that trial is one of those which I myself have translated from the original manuscripts, and no such payment is listed anywhere in either set of articles hostile to her (not in the initial 70 articles nor in the final 12), nor was it ever mentioned in the course of the trial; the author simply made that up. There was never any suggestion that she used cannabis to yield her “voices”: instead, her judges claimed (in Article XI of the final set) that the beings which she identified as angels and saints might be fallen angels instead.
2) The oft-cited claim that the presence of “unique” THC receptors is evidence of some sort of crucial link between human evolution and pot usage shows a profound misunderstanding of the way such receptors work: they do not typically bind only with a single “unique” substance, and in fact the receptors with which THC interacts (CB1, CB2, and an interaction with the opiate receptor which is still below study) were calculated for chemicals in the body (anandamide and 2-arachidonoyl-glycerol); the opiate receptor was calculated to react to endorphins and similar chemicals in the body. Just as certain drugs happen to bind with the opiate receptor due to a opportunity similarity in molecular structure, THC binds with CB1 because its structure happens to be just close enough to “fit”. Arsenic and other poisons happen to interact with certain sites in the body for the same reason; presumably, we will now have to deal with the claim that the body was calculated to consume arsenic, too.
3) Medieval books were pricey because they had to be meticulously hand-written (and later, printed using a clumsy and laborious administer), not because of any ban hostile to paper, hemp-based or otherwise. This should hardly need to be said.
4) Even as the author is right in saying that the ancient Scythians (for example) did use a cannabis-based substance, there seems to be a persistent attempt to add other ancient cultures to the list by deliberate distortion of the context (such as misinterpreting certain Hebrew words in order to claim that early Jews and Christians were using cannabis, too).
5) In another evident error of judgment, the book tries to claim that the Bible (of all things) supports pot usage by deliberately misinterpreting certain English translations (such as the one which uses an archaic definition of the word “herb” to translate Hebrew words such as “zara’on”, which means “vegetable”), or by taking out of context Paul’s comments about Jewish nutritional laws (which banned certain meats, such as pork, which were common in the Greek-speaking world in which Paul was trying to win converts; hence the statement that any “creature” or “animal” (“ktisma” in the Greek version of the original manuscripts) is valid for consumption. Marijuana is not an “animal”, although I’ve literally seen people try to argue that it in some way qualifies as such in order to support the author’s views on this particular theme). A similar argument is invoked when dealing with a passage preaching hostile to the outlawing of foods, with smoked marijuana suddenly being reclassified as a “food” in this case so the claim can be made that the Bible is hostile to current drug laws, all the even as ignoring the passages which specifically forbid people to be below the influence of any such substance. The list can go on.
It’s hard to know what to say in summary to a book like this: as many scholars have pointed out, it’s small more than fiction and fluff, and certainly does not qualify as “history” in any sense of the term.
Rating: 1 / 5
The most revolutionary book about cannabis history of all time. All the other books on the theme took their in rank from this one, the one, the only Emperor Wears No Clothes.
It will no doubt exchange your life too.
Rating: 5 / 5
As has been mentioned many times before in many places – one of the best works of its type about the truth and usefulness of marijuana. Fantastic reference work and introduction to those who have been “brainwashed.”
Rating: 4 / 5