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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 thoroughly 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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3.0 out of 5 stars Is this all there is?, May 12 2003

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P. Soen (Itasca, Illinois United States) - See all my reviews
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Jack Herer's scrapbook of information and argumentation was delightful as it was entertaining. I recommend 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 sincerity, does anyone know of any scholarly/critical reviews on this book. It has me thinking, 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 issue until the 1930s? If the government is really so concerned with our health why don't they ban McDonald's and other fast 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, could they please post it on Amazon. There has to be authoritative objectives to this book if it has any legitimacy.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The book that Changed my life, Feb 24 2002

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J Irvin (Redlands, California United States) - See all my reviews

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The most revolutionary book about cannabis history of all time. All the other books on the subject took their information from this one, the one, the only Emperor Wears No Clothes.
It will no doubt change your life too.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Jack is no historian or pharmacologist., Nov 15 2001

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Jack does make some outrageous claims about marijuana in the history of this planet but I would have to say he has more knowledge about industrial hemp than any other person on the planet. I wouldn't really rely on anything the man says about history or pharmacology but he has some really good things to say about the possibility's of industrial hemp, one of the best parts of this book is the massive appendix of primary source material, I recommend this book to everyone just make sure you take his history lessons with a shaker of salt.

Someone claiming to be a historian made a big error mentioning receptors, THC does not bind with any opiate receptors. It binds to the anandamide receptor. At the time Herer wrote this book, the receptor had been discovered but anandamide had not... so his speculation about why the receptor existed wasn't completely ridiculous at the time (at least it wouldn't have been ridiculous for a non-pharmacologist like him).

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