This is a follow up on a challenge given in 1985 by Jack Herer, author of "The Emporer Wears No Clothes". The prize is $100,00.

If all fossil fuels and their derivatives, as well as trees

for paper and construction, were banned in order to save the planet,

reverse the Greenhouse Effect and stop deforestation; then there is

only one known annually renewable natural resource that is capable of

providing the overall majority of the world's paper and textiles; meet

all of the world's transportation, industrial and home energy needs,

while simultaneously reducing pollution, rebuilding the soil and cleaning

the atmosphere all at the same time... and that substance is the same

one that has done it before . . . CANNABIS HEMP!

CANNABIS HEMP is the only known plant that can be grown from the Equator

to the Arctic Circle and to the Antarctic Circle; from the mountains

to the valleys, from the oceans to the plains, including arid lands

and everywhere in between. CANNABIS HEMP is the healthiest plant for

the ground out of the 300,000 known species, and the millions and millions

of subspecies, of plants on Earth, because it has a root system that

grows 10 to 12 inches in 30 days compared to one inch for rye, barley

grass, etc. The roots penetrate up to 6 feet deep, pulverizing the soil

and making it arable. After harvest it leaves a root system that is

mulched into the ground, revitalizing the land and making it live once

again. It is the KING KONG of the King Kongs of all plant life.

All of my information about CANNABIS HEMP has been taken from Federal

and State Department of Agriculture reports, articles from Popular Mechanics,

Popular Science, Pulp & Paper Magazine, Scientific American, entries

from encyclopedias and pharmacopoeias, and studies from all over the

world during the last 200 years. This is all public information. The

United States government is hiding the fact that 125 years ago, and

even as far back as 4000 BC, 80% of our economy was based on the use

of CANNABIS HEMP for paper, fiber and fuel. Ten to 20% of our drug economy

was based on CANNABIS HEMP medicines, 125 years ago. CANNABIS HEMP was

part of our everyday life. Virtually every farm and every plot of land

in the cities and towns across the United States and the world, from

100-125 years ago and before, had a CANNABIS HEMP patch growing. The

U.S. government's cover-up of CANNABIS HEMP outrages me and it should

outrage you, too. I have been studying CANNABIS HEMP for over 30 years,

and I can't believe how the U.S. government, in 90 seconds in Congress,

could outlaw "MARIJUANA" in 1937, without the people realizing

they were outlawing CANNABIS/HEMP, the most perfect plant for the planet!

They even got other countries to outlaw it, too, after the Second World

War and beyond. From 1740 to 1940, 80% of all the world's CANNABIS HEMP

was grown (mostly by Cossacks, who were indentured servants), and then

imported from, Russia.

I will again reiterate a few of the facts about CANNABIS HEMP, which

you already know from reading my book, "The Emperor Wears No Clothes."

CANNABIS HEMP was the NUMBER ONE annually renewable natural resource

for 80% of all paper, fiber, textiles and fuel, from 6,000 years ago

until about 125 years ago. Furthermore, it was used for 5 to 50% of

the food, light, land and soil reclamation, and even 20% or more of

all medicine. Everyone, from the educated to the uneducated, the farmer

to the townsperson, the doctors and the scientists used CANNABIS HEMP

products and depended on them.75 to 90% of all paper used from at least

100 AD to 1883 was made of CANNABIS/HEMP. Books, (including Bibles),

money and newspapers all over the world have been mainly printed on

CANNABIS/HEMP for as long as these things have existed in human history.

One hundred and 25 years ago, 70 to 90% of all rope, twine, cordage,

ship sails, canvas, fiber, cloth, etc., was made out of CANNABIS/HEMP

fiber! It was replaced by DuPont's newly discovered petrochemical fiber

(nylon) beginning in 1937. By comparison, CANNABIS/HEMP is 4 times softer

than cotton, 4 times warmer, 4 times more water absorbent, has 3 times

the strength of cotton, is many times more durable, is flame retardant,

and doesn't use pesticides. Fifty percent of all pesticides are used

on cotton, yet cotton uses only 1% of the farmland in the U.S! CANNABIS

HEMP is the most health giving plant on Earth and it doesn't require

pesticides or herbicides! It is the healthiest plant for human consumption,

and for the Earth itself.

Eighty percent of our economy depended on CANNABIS/HEMP for paper, fiber

and fuel, 125 years ago. At that time, it took 300 man-hours to harvest

an acre of CANNABIS/HEMP, but with the invention of the brand new HEMP

decorticator in the 1930s, it only took 1-1/2 to 2 hours. This is equivalent

to reducing the labor burden from $6,000 down to $40 per acre, in today's

money. Keep in mind that the cotton gin, in 1793, reduced the man-hours

from 300 hours down to 2 hours to harvest and clean an acre of cotton.

CANNABIS/HEMP would have taken over the cotton market, as it is far

superior to cotton, and pesticide free. The role of CANNABIS/HEMP should

be determined by market supply and demand and not by undue influence

of prohibition laws, federal subsidies and huge tariffs that keep the

natural from replacing the synthetic. I repeat, CANNABIS HEMP is the

KING KONG of the King Kongs of all plants!

Of all the 300,000 species of plants on Earth, no other plant source

can compare with the nutritional value of CANNABIS HEMP seeds. It is

the only plant on Earth that provides us with the NUMBER ONE source,

and the perfect balance of essential amino acids, essential fatty acids,

globulin edestin protein, and essential oils all combined in one plant,

and in a form which is most naturally digestible to our bodies.

Prior to the 1800s, CANNABIS/HEMPSEED oil was the NUMBER ONE source

for lighting oil throughout the world. Until 1937-38, even paints and

varnishes were 80% CANNABIS/HEMPSEED oil. CANNABIS HEMP is non-toxic

and has been used to make high-grade diesel fuel, oil, aircraft and

precision oil and even the NUMBER ONE vegetable oil. The U.S. Army/Navy

standards purchasing specifications list HEMP OIL as the NUMBER ONE

preferred lubricant for their machinery. CANNABIS/HEMP is the best sustainable

source of plant pulp for biomass fuel to make charcoal, gas, methanol,

gasoline and electricity in a natural way.

In 1850, 80% of all paper, fiber, fuel, and oil were made out of CANNABIS/HEMP

in America and the rest of the world. This was before the discovery

of coal and petroleum for energy in the late 1850s...before the start

of the worst permanent pollution ever experienced on Earth... fossil

fuel pollution (coal and petroleum)!!

As a medicine, the worldwide use of CANNABIS HEMP goes back at least

6,000 years. Remember, 10 to 20%t of our medicines used to be CANNABIS

HEMP based medicines. It has been found to be healthy and effective

in the treatment of chronic pain, cancer, strokes, glaucoma, multiple

sclerosis, sickle cell anemia, AIDS wasting and many other illnesses,

including simple nausea, appetite stimulant, anxiety and muscle pains,

etc.

On September 6, 1988, the Drug Enforcement Administration's Chief Administrative

Law Judge, Francis L. Young, ruled: "Marijuana, in its natural

form, is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to

man," and asked the Drug Enforcement Administration to reschedule

it. The DEA refused, keeping it as a Schedule I drug, which they say

"has no known medical use"! Thousands of studies have been

done all over the world, documenting the medical use of MARIJUANA (England,

Spain, Hungary, Holland, and the U.S., just to name a few). No one has

ever died from MARIJUANA in over 6,000 years of recorded history...

unless they were shot by a COP!

CANNABIS HEMP was also used for land reclamation until 1915. CANNABIS/HEMP

was planted or left to grow feral as ground cover and on riverbanks,

and not intended for harvest. It is the NUMBER ONE plant in history

used to prevent mudslides and loss of watershed, and river and soil

erosion on Earth. It has been illegal to grow this NUMBER ONE plant

in the United States since 1937.What disgusts me the most is how the

U.S. government, as well as the people, knew about

CANNABIS HEMP and praised its value and then look what happened! In

literally 90 seconds, the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937 passed in Congress.

By using the unknown name "MARIJUANA" instead of the familiar

name "CANNABIS HEMP", Congress was able to accomplish this

because no one knew what plant they were talking about. CANNABIS/HEMP

became illegal and was replaced by petrochemical products, coal and

natural gas. They made it such a banned and forbidden plant that the

words "HEMP" and "CANNABIS/HEMP" were not even taught

in schools from the 1940s, 50s and thereafter.

The role of CANNABIS HEMP was erased from America's history (as well

as most of the rest of the world's) after 1945. To prove it, think...

what did you learn about CANNABIS/HEMP in grade school? High school?

College? From your parents and grandparents? Nothing! (Unless it was

from the underground press within the last 15 to 20 years.) The continuing

suppression of this information by the U.S. government places us all

in mortal jeopardy. I believe that, in order to save our planet, we

must use non-fossil fuel energy.

CANNABIS HEMP, in conjunction with wind, solar, tidal and hydroelectric

power, could save the planet by providing all of our energy, fuel, paper,

fiber, and 10 to 20% of our medical needs, naturally. It would also

reduce acid rain and chemical pollution, rebuild the soil, and reverse

the greenhouse effect (no other plant can do this!).

CANNABIS HEMP was used to make over 25,000 products before it was outlawed

in 1937.Why does the U.S. government want to eradicate this seed, out

of all the seeds on Earth? They want to kill the most perfect plant

on the planet. We must stop this insanity and demand that the laws against

CANNABIS HEMP be 100% repealed!!

Federal Attorney General John Ashcroft, Drug Enforcement Administration

head, Asa Hutchison, and White House Drug Czar, John Walters, have been

given all of these proven facts and yet are still set against the legalization

of CANNABIS HEMP and recognition of CANNABIS/HEMP/MARIUANA knowledge.

For whatever personal reasons, they refuse to believe the facts and

are willing to sacrifice the future of our planet and the health of

our people by keeping it illegal.

The ban of CANNABIS HEMP is so extreme and its intention is to hide

the truth. The truth is that out of the 300,000 species, and the millions

and millions of subspecies, of plants on Earth, CANNABIS HEMP is the

NUMBER ONE plant for our survival and quality of life here on Earth.

Since September 11, 2001, the U.S. government and Attorney General John

Ashcroft have been calling MARIJUANA users "terrorists" and

yet the government of the United States has been "terrorizing"

MARIJUANA users for the last 65 years! There have been over 14 million

arrests for CANNABIS HEMP in the last 65 years, in the U.S. alone! 13

million were within the last 30 years!

No one has taken the $100,000 challenge to prove me wrong. Why? Because

I am right. The U.S. government has been lying to us since the early

1900s. Do economic interests and the police have more to say than the

people about the future of our planet? How angry are you for being lied

to by the U.S. government about CANNABIS HEMP? Are you willing to make

a stand right now? No one can dispute this information and knowledge.

YOU have to join me in this fight. Either you are on the U.S. government's

side or you are on my side.

Please help me spread this everywhere. Thank you!

JACK HERER