Weapons of Mass Destruction
Found Buried...
(The Emperor Wears No Clothes REVIEW)
...next
to the bad side effects of marijuana in Al Capone's Vault. April Fools
Geraldo, there ain't no such thing. If I got your attention, good, that
is just what happened to me when I read the eleventh edition of THE
EMPEROR WEARS NO CLOTHES by JACK HERER. In 1974, California made possession
of under an ounce of pot a misdemeanor and Jack Herer and his friend
and 'ace-ku-moon' Captain Ed Adair figured like everyone else here that
legal pot was only months away, maybe two years at the most. But Captain
Ed didn't trust politicians to get the job done so he and Jack made
a pledge -- we swear to work every day to legalize marijuana and get
all pot prisoners out of jail until we are dead, marijuana is legal,
or we could quit when we turned 84. We wouldn't have to quit but we
could.
Well, Captain Ed was right about the politicians. Today we have more
people in jail for pot than ever before, and yet marijuana use is steady.
Could it be that Thomas Jefferson was right in saying that when the
government enacts an unjust law, citizens have the right to break that
law (as often as possible)? Today in America despite the government
prohibition and international intimidation of pot, there is a thriving
subculture that is so open it is no longer underground. The 'culture
of cannabis' exists like magic, either you are part of it, or it is
something you see out of the corner of your eye. Pot, a weed, is second
only to Jesus Christ in being controversial. How can a simple budding
annual cause so much debate, have so much government money spent denouncing
it (that's your tax dollars at work folks), and be so politically incorrect
that no, I repeat, NO candidate running for high office will even utter
the word, 'pot?' Well, the answer has to be read to be believed. Even
then, you have to reread several times to believe what your eyes are
telling you about grass, or to be more accurate, HEMP, which is the
name for cannabis the world knew before the U.S. Government decided
to out a badmouth campaign about it. But this review isn't about the
narrow-minded pencil dicks and their Gestapo laws to rid the planet
of pot users, and surprisingly enough, neither is the government's obsession
against it.
While the answers found in THE EMPEROR will astound you, it is the truth
about hemp, or pot, or grass, or weed that will amaze you. Let me give
you an analogy of the situation. Listen up and think about this. 'You
are standing in front of a Cadillac showroom. GOD walks up to you and
says, "My son, I really like you, I really do. To show my love
for you and because I Made all things, you may have that Caddy if you
so desire." You walk into the showroom, slowly making your way
around this awesome ride, taking in every detail you can, rubbing your
eyes in disbelief at such a free gift. Then you quickly grab and break
off a windshield wiper and run out of the showroom. Every morning now
when you shower, you pick up that windshield wiper and clear the steam
off the bathroom mirror so you can have a clean shave.' That's the way
we are about hemp.
There is a danger to reading this elegant, comprehensive edition that
features the past, present and possible future of pot in full color
articles and reprinted historical records. The entire pot picture is
found here. You see the full depth of the picture and you began to understand
it is not just about the money, it is not even just about power. It
is about doing the right thing, about doing Good versus doing Evil.
If you haven't seen the History Channel's 'Illegal Drugs', the marijuana
episode and the five people the government had on it's medical marijuana
program, you should. Another example is Alan Martinez, 40, an epilepsy
sufferer. "I suffered no grand mal seizures -- the most debilitating
type, since using marijuana medically." Sadly Alan died in a car
accident while having a seizure at the wheel after the Feds stopped
his marijuana use. I wonder if Ashcroft said to Asa Hutchinson of Arkansas,
the DEA Director, 'well that's one less pothead to worry about?' Despite
what the BUSH Administration has told you about Saddam and his policies,
the countries of Russia and the good old U.S.A. have the highest percentage
of their own citizens in jail or prison, according to the World Almanac.
But wait there's more. The present rate of deforestation going on in
the world that is being done to satisfy an ever increasing housing demand,
coupled with ever increasing appetite for things plastic and pollution
making cars (sure we have emission standards but what about places as
close as Mexico City, where a rare freeze and snow storm killed a number
of people just a couple of months ago) are leading to a change in this
terrarium that we all live and breath in. The use of hemp and hemp made
products could dampen future natural disorders perhaps foretold of in
the Bible.
Webster's College Dictionary defines 'emperor' as the 'supreme ruler
of an empire.' We have Mr. Herer to thank for two Great Truths in his
book. We are indeed an Empire, whether you realize it or not. Saddam
knows it, that's why he had U.S. Benjamins stuffed in his mattress with
him. And second, we have turned our collective will over to be ruled
by rulers who have been sold a 'Brooklyn Bridge' suit of clothes. This
book, THE EMPEROR WEARS NO CLOTHES should be sitting under every Bible
in the country. If it were, this country would be a different place
and stand for, perhaps, higher values in the world's eyes. God Bless
You Jack Herer (www.jackherer.com)
for bringing forth the "hempire strikes back," somebody's
got to 'tell 'em where the bear shit in the buckwheat.'
- MR.
PETE