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The same was true during Colonial times. Per Grok: American colonial farmers were required by law in several colonies to grow hemp (industrial Cannabis sativa, used for fiber in ropes, sails, canvas, clothing, and other essentials). This was not a uniform nationwide policy across all colonies at all times, but mandatory cultivation laws existed in key early settlements, driven by Britain's need for naval supplies to reduce dependence on imports (especially from Russia).

The US Government gave farmers permits to grow hemp/marihuana for fiber during World War 2. They called the fiber field 'marihuana.' The reason hemp, or marijuana, was prohibited in the 20th century was to suppress hemp fuel and fiber production. Hemp seeds make biodiesel fuel. Hemp biomass makes ethanol. Hemp makes more biofuel than any other plant. Hemp produces more fiber than any other plant. There are two types of fiber in a marijuana stalk or stem, the bast fiber, which is the outer bark, and the hurd fiber, or the inner woody core. According to the US Department of Agriculture's Bulletin 404, a waste product from making canvas, rope,lace and linen from hemp bast fiber, this hemp hurd fiber alone, makes over 4 times more paper than trees. Hemp paper is acid free, for a long shelf life, and produced without toxic chemicals. According to Washington State University's Wood Sciences Lab, hemp fiber board is stronger than steel. When we allow farmers to grow hemp for its best fuel attributes, regardless of THC content, we will realign our whole economic system by replacing fossil fuel with biofuel. Hemp fuel and fiber are inexpensive to make and naturally decentralized. Small groups of people created the marijuana myth so they could profit from the expensive, capital intensive petrochemical alternatives that dominate our political process and economy today. Hemp will decentralize our economic system and return wealth and control to the majority. Cannabis & hemp were renamed marijuana in the early part of the 20th Century in a misinformation campaign designed by and to benefit the petrochemical pharmaceutical military industrial transnational corporate elite fascist ruling class. Cannabis prohibition has always been about money, power and the centralization of economic and political control. Drugs are a smokescreen. We don't need to fight wars for oil because our farmers can produce a superior product. It is really an issue of economic and social justice. Please work for and support global cannabis freedom: restore hemp! - crrh.org

@getcloserhome @ChuckGrassley So Sick of watching these Selfish Corrupt Senators always Campaining for their Rigged Lifetime Senate SEAT..GRASSLEY the BlueSlip Sabotager of TRUMP will lose his SEAT.Nobody Respects the Corrupt Senate..The Senate has RUINED America

Exactly. Grassley has enriched himself on those ethanol grants and tax credits he votes for. Conflict of interest and self enrichment at expense of American taxpayers. He mocks us with his folksy posts of his old vacuum cleaner and quirky statements. POTUS deserved a better Senate.

@getcloserhome @GrandpaGreg77 @ChuckGrassley Every state needs a path to recall. Feckless politicians lie, lie, lie and then just laugh at the voters.

@getcloserhome @ChuckGrassley EVERY Senator who does not call for @LeaderJohnThune

@getcloserhome @ChuckGrassley Grassley votes 35% with his own party, 65% with the Democrats. John Thune votes 37% with his own party, 63% with the Democrats. They have the third and fourth worst records in the Senate, right behind Susan Collins at 17%, and Lisa Murkowski at 18%. HeritageAction.com/scorecard

Greasy Grassley, campaigns like the quaint farmer, ...but in reality he enriches himself and IGNORES the American People... @ChuckGrassley DAMAGING OUR REPUBLIC--Grassley, the great American bullshitter blocks Trump's appointments and will not pass the Save Act.

@Jewels_174 @kylenabecker That will happen in Canada 🇨🇦 DO YOU LIVE UNDER A ROCK🙄🇨🇦👎🏻🇨🇦🤬☠️🦠

@Jewels_174 @kylenabecker Worse has happened in Canada sweetheart!!! Its a dump now because of the leftists controlling everything you do. Do you have 2A rights?? Well I do and I use it everyday. What do you use to protect yourself?? Thats right nothing.

@Jewels_174 @kylenabecker You're just killing your citizens and taking away all their rights‼️ Canada you've got euthanasia up there killing all ages of people OVER 75,000‼️ Don't act like Canada's such a big thing it's not‼️👿🤡👿🤡👿

@Jewels_174 @kylenabecker Canadians are so insufferably pompous.

@Jewels_174 @kylenabecker Nah in Canada they just debank you before you hop on the subway to attend

@kylenabecker I love the “I’m Canadian. That would never happen in Canada” 🤣🤣🤣

@Chaz007299 @grok @kylenabecker Perhaps to show who is in charge!

@grok @kylenabecker I don't understand. July 3 is not inside the July 11 to July 19 window, so why is it "now a limited, ticketed event" ?

Mayor Zohran Mamdani has signed an emergency order to stop people from freely celebrating the 250th anniversary of America in Times Square. Americans are being locked out of the July 4th ball drop. New Yorkers have some "thoughts" about this.

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) signed an emergency order on April 5, 2026, blocking new permits for large-scale special events in city parks from June 11–July 19 to handle FIFA World Cup crowds and NYPD overtime. The America250 July 3 Times Square ball drop (kicking off U.S. 250th anniversary) is now a limited, ticketed event—not fully open to the public. Protests/demonstrations remain exempt. The ball still drops and will be livestreamed.

@kylenabecker Pretty clear Islamic mayor doesn’t want the birth of the country openly celebrated in NYC. But what country does not celebrate its birthday.

@DrHoosierHermit @kylenabecker @VindiceLiber No, nobody deserves what’s coming with this Jerk in charge!

@kylenabecker @VindiceLiber New Yorkers probably deserve whatever this terrorist simp brings to them.

@kylenabecker THAT ISLAMIC COMMUNIST LUNATIC HAS TO BE REMOVED ASAP. The ball in in HOCHUL hands