Herer K Quotes & Sayings

I think evil is our collective shadow. Each one of us has a tendency for the diabolical. If I put you in inhumane conditions, if you're not educated, if you're extremely poor, if you're humiliated, then as a child if you suffer abuse, then you will manifest even when you grow up. — Deepak Chopra

I was 30 years old and this girl I knew found out I had never gotten high. Nobody had ever told me about marijuana. — Jack Herer

I like to always have humour in whatever I do. — Adam Brody

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. — Jack Herer

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. — Jack Herer

Hemp will be the future of all mankind, or there won't be a future. — Jack Herer

I don't want to wait 20 or 50 years for something to be done about petrochemical pollution. — Jack Herer

Many artists and writers have used cannabis for creative stimulation - from the writers of the world's religious masterpieces to our most irreverent satirists. — Jack Herer

If you substitute marijuana for tobacco and alcohol, you'll add eight to 24 years to your life. — Jack Herer

Growing hemp as nature designed it is vital to our urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases and ensure the survival of our planet. — Jack Herer

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. — Jack Herer

But you can count the dead bodies from alcohol, tobacco, and legal pharmaceuticals by the millions. — Jack Herer

In all the mad incongruity, the turgid stultiloquy of life, I felt, at least, securely anchored to myself. Whatever the vacillations of other people, I thought myself terrifically constant. But now, here I am, dragging a frayed line, and my anchor gone. — John Steinbeck

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

I've lived in Los Angeles for at least 24 years. — Jack Herer

Hempseed produces no observable high for humans or birds. — Jack Herer

I was a normal American nerd. — Jack Herer

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

Our leaders are acting like lemmings. — Jack Herer

Sport is a passion and out of passion comes love. No point trying to work out why some become heroes and others don't. The chosen ones just go into the pantheon and refuse to fade. Think of Bradman and Les Darcy, Phar Lap and Tommy Corrigan. — Les Carlyon

Hemp is Earth's number-one biomass resource; it is capable of producing 10 tons per acre in four months. — Jack Herer

In fact, marijuana lowers your stress level and lowers your body temperature. It actually seems that people live longer if they use it. If you substitute marijuana for tobacco and alcohol, you'll add 24 years to your life. — Jack Herer

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

In the littered field of discredited self-congratulatory chauvinisms, there is only one that seems to hold up, one sense in which we are special: Due to our own actions or inactions, and the misuse of our technology, we live at an extraordinary moment, for the Earth at least - the first time that a species has become able to wipe itself out. — Carl Sagan