Quotes by Jack Herer

• 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.
• If you substitute marijuana for tobacco and alcohol, you'll add eight to 24 years to your life.
• Many artists and writers have used cannabis for creative stimulation - from the writers of the world's religious masterpieces to our most irreverent satirists.
• My family moved to Buffalo, New York in 1940 where I was raised.
• Our leaders are acting like lemmings.
• You see, the Greenhouse Effect is a direct result of burning fossil or old carbon fuels.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• The only dead bodies from marijuana are in the prisons and at the hands of the police. This is ridiculous.
• Growing hemp as nature designed it is vital to our urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases and ensure the survival of our planet.
• Hempseed produces no observable high for humans or birds.
• I was 30 years old and this girl I knew found out I had never gotten high. Nobody had ever told me about marijuana.
• I don't want to wait 20 or 50 years for something to be done about petrochemical pollution.
• I was a normal American nerd.
• I've lived in Los Angeles for at least 24 years.
• But you can count the dead bodies from alcohol, tobacco, and legal pharmaceuticals by the millions.