The Emperor Wears No Clothes by Jack Herer Marijuana Medicine in 19th Century America From 1850 to 1937, cannabis was used as the prime medicine for more than 100 separate…

The Emperor Wears No Clothes by Jack Herer Cannabis Drug Use in 19th Century America Although by 1839, cannabis hemp products for fiber, paper, nautical use, lamp oil, food, etc.,…

The Emperor Wears No Clothes by Jack Herer The (Hemp) War of 1812, Napoleon & Russia Napoleon Invades Russia This is a piece of history that you may have been…

The Emperor Wears No Clothes by Jack Herer The Age of Enlightenment The 18th century ushered in a new era of human thought and civilization. “Life, Liberty and the Pursuit…

The Emperor Wears No Clothes by Jack Herer Yet, Hemp Endured The sadistic Ottoman Empire conquered Egypt and, in the 16th century A.D., tried to outlaw cannabis – because Egyptian…

The Emperor Wears No Clothes by Jack Herer Contradictions Despite this centuries-long attack by the most powerful political and religious force in Western civilization, hemp cultivation continued in Northern Europe,…

The Emperor Wears No Clothes by Jack Herer Church Sanctioned Legal Medicines Virtually the only legal medical cures allowed the people of Western Europe by the Roman Catholic Church Fathers…

The Emperor Wears No Clothes by Jack Herer Cannabis Medicines Forbidden While embracing wine as a sacrament, and tolerating beer and hard liquor, the Inquisition outlawed cannabis ingestion in Spain…

The Emperor Wears No Clothes by Jack Herer The Politics of Paper The masses of people, “the commons,” were kept in check through a dual system of fear and enforced…

The Emperor Wears No Clothes by Jack Herer Church / State Aristocracy After running from the Roman Empire’s police for almost 300 years, Christian Orthodox priests had become their bosses.…

The Emperor Wears No Clothes by Jack Herer The Holy Roman Empire Faced with a crumbling empire, political corruption and a series of ruinous wars with barbarians, the old Roman…

The Emperor Wears No Clothes by Jack Herer Early Christianity Historians, early artworks, Bibles, manuscripts, Dead Sea Scrolls, Gnostic Gospels, letters from early church fathers, etc., indicate that for the…

The Emperor Wears No Clothes by Jack Herer What Does the Bible Say? Finding the encoded references to cannabis and other drugs is made more difficult by the lack of…

The Emperor Wears No Clothes by Jack Herer Judaic Line Hemp was a major industry in biblical times. As in other cultures throughout the Middle East, the Hebrew tradition of…

The Emperor Wears No Clothes by Jack Herer Cloaked in Secrecy The dawn or basis of religious beliefs in all races and peoples – Japanese, Chinese, Indian, Egyptian, Persian, Babylonian,…