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Jack Herer, sometimes called the "Emperor of Hemp", was an American cannabis rights activist and the author of The Emperor Wears No Clothes. Herer founded and served as the director of the organization Help End Marijuana Prohibition (HEMP).

As an activist, he advocated for the decriminalization of the cannabis plant and argued that it could be used as a renewable source of fuel, medicine, food, fiber, and paper/pulp and that it can be grown in virtually any part of the world for medicinal as well as economic purposes. He further asserted that the U.S. government has been deliberately hiding the proof of this from its own citizens.

An early glass pipe entrepreneur, Herer opened his first head shop in 1973. In 1985, Herer self-published The Emperor Wears No Clothes, a book in 2020 in its fourteenth edition after having been continuously in print for 35 years, frequently cited in efforts to decriminalize and legalize cannabis and to expand the use of hemp for industrial use.

In 1987, Herer opened the Third Eye Shoppe head shop in Portland, Oregon. Herer's son Mark Herer took over as the shop's owner in 2001. The Third Eye closed on March 31, 2017. A former Goldwater Republican, Herer twice ran for President of the United States in 1988 (1,949 votes) and 1992 (3,875 votes) as the Grassroots Party candidate.

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