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The Emperor Wears No Clothes A History of Cannabis/Hemp/Marijuana

Jack Herer

UPDATED FOR 2021 to include hundreds of links to new articles and videos! In this thoroughly researched, scrupulously annotated and shockingly provocative book you'll learn: * How and why cannabis prohibition began and what that has meant to America. * All the uses of hemp as medicine, food, fuel, f...

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The Joe Rogan Experience

The book was described as a 'great book' and its insights about cannabis legalization are still relevant today. B-Real mentioned that Jack Herer, the author, was a Republican who became a cannabis advocate after trying the drug for the first time.

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Yeah, and then he got a girlfriend, and the girlfriend got him smoking weed, yeah. And also, he's like, 'Man, this is fucking amazing. God, why am I such a dick? What's wrong with me? Who am I? What a...

— Episode: #1285 - B-Real

Episode: #1285 - B-Real

The book was described as a 'great book' and its insights about cannabis legalization are still relevant today. B-Real mentioned that Jack Herer, the author, was a Republican who became a cannabis advocate after trying the drug for the first time.

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Yeah, and then he got a girlfriend, and the girlfriend got him smoking weed, yeah. And also, he's like, 'Man, this is fucking amazing. God, why am I such a dick? What's wrong with me? Who am I? What am I doing in my life?' Absolutely. It totally flipped his life around. Yeah, the Emperor Wears No Clothes, the fucking great book, man. Yeah, it holds, it holds strong to this day because everything that he said in the book is sort of happening right now.

Yeah, it holds, it holds strong to this day because everything that he said in the book is sort of happening right now, all the stuff that they, you know, they, they tried to prevent from happening through all the anti-cannabis propaganda.

Yeah, the Emperor Wears No Clothes, the fucking great book, man. Yeah, it holds, it holds strong to this day because everything that he said in the book is sort of happening right now.

It's the type of shit that Jack Hererra was trying to tell people in The Emperor Wears No Clothes.

Timcast IRL

The book discusses an emperor who is naked but everyone pretends he is wearing a beautiful outfit until one child points out the truth. It was used as an analogy for the current political climate, where people are afraid to speak the truth.

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There's a book called The Emperor Wears No Clothes where I have never read the book, but I know the premise is that the emperor, they come out and out of China or whatever, they march around and the e...

— Episode: Timcast IRL #946 Texas Gov Declares SUPR...

Episode: Timcast IRL #946 Texas Gov Declares SUPREMACY Over...

The book discusses an emperor who is naked but everyone pretends he is wearing a beautiful outfit until one child points out the truth. It was used as an analogy for the current political climate, where people are afraid to speak the truth.

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There's a book called The Emperor Wears No Clothes where I have never read the book, but I know the premise is that the emperor, they come out and out of China or whatever, they march around and the emperor would be naked. But they'd be like, look at the beautiful outfit that the emperor has on. Isn't it beautiful? Everyone look, the emperor is wearing a beautiful outfit. Isn't it beautiful? And everyone be like, yes, yes, beautiful outfit. And then eventually one kid, little kid was like, Emperor's not wearing any clothes. And everyone's like, oh, and it's this moment of cognitive dissonance where like youthful innocence overrides this corrupt I don't know what you would call it, stupidity or can you show your parents the video of him?

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