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01/19/2026

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12/31/2025

As we close out the Year of the Snake, I’m grateful for the shedding, the clearing, and everything that fell away.
What felt like failure may have actually been a great victory, it all depends on how you look at it!

2025 has been a year of behind-the-scenes work.
Laying roots. Building strong foundations. Preparing for what’s next.

And now we run forward 🐎🔥
The Fire Horse energy brings momentum, courage, and bold expansion.

✨ Big news coming in 2026
✨ New events, new partnerships & pop-up locations
✨ A season of visible growth after quiet preparation

Every tear shed watered the seeds.
And what’s coming next is going to run fast, fierce, and free.

The best is still ahead 🌿🔥

12/24/2025

A fresh start shouldn’t start with nothing.

Too many returning citizens come home without the basics — clothes, warmth, dignity.
That’s why Protecting My Peace Foundation is opening The Re-Entry Closet 🧥👕🧼

From January 9th – February 7th, we’re collecting clean, gently used clothing, shoes, blankets, and hygiene items to support people rebuilding their lives.

✨ We pick up ALL donations
✨ Every item helps restore confidence and stability
✨ This is how community shows up

If you’ve got it in your closet, somebody else needs it in their life.

📞 Contact: Neona | 804-404-7985

12/19/2025

🪴 Cannabis: The Plant So Useful They Had to Lie About It
(Weird Facts & Hidden History Edition)

Before cannabis was a “drug,” it was infrastructure.

No, really.

🧵 WEIRD FACT #1:
The word canvas comes from cannabis.
Sails. Ropes. Maps. Military tents.
The stuff that built empires? H**p.

⚓ WEIRD FACT #2:
Early navies ran on h**p.
Ships without h**p sails and rigging didn’t explore — they drifted and died.

🌿 WEIRD FACT #3:
In colonial America, farmers were sometimes required by law to grow h**p.
George Washington? Grew it.
Thomas Jefferson? Grew it.
Nobody clutched pearls or scromited.

🧠 WEIRD FACT #4:
Cannabis was in the U.S. Pharmacopeia until 1942.
Used for pain, sleep, migraines, inflammation, and muscle spasms.
Prescribed. STUDIED. Normal.

💊 WEIRD FACT #5:
The word “marijuana” wasn’t used to educate — it was used to other.
Same plant. New name.
Timed perfectly with racial panic and labor fear.

📰 WEIRD FACT #6:
William Randolph Hearst (newspapers) and DuPont (synthetics) both had financial reasons to crush h**p.
Suddenly, h**p was “dangerous.”
What a coincidence.

🚔 WEIRD FACT #7:
Cannabis prohibition didn’t reduce harm — it created it.
Criminalized medicine.
Empowered black markets.
Built an incarceration pipeline.

🌱 WEIRD FACT #8:
H**p:
• improves soil
• uses less water than cotton
• makes fiber, fuel, food, paper, medicine

📜WEIRD FACT #9:
The first drafts of the Declaration of Independence were written on h**p paper.
H**p paper:
• lasts hundreds of years
• doesn’t yellow like wood pulp
• doesn’t require clear-cut forests
• was cheaper and easier to produce at the time

Tree-based paper didn’t take over because it was better.
It took over because it was more profitable for a few very powerful industries.

Turns out the real gateway wasn’t cannabis —
it was corporate capture.

💥 BONUS WEIRD FACT:
In 2003, the U.S. government patented cannabinoids.

Patent US 6630507 B1 covers the use of cannabinoids as neuroprotectants and antioxidants — meaning the government officially acknowledged their medical value for conditions like:
• stroke
• traumatic brain injury
• neurodegenerative diseases
• inflammation

So let’s recap:

The same government that said cannabis had
👉 “no accepted medical use”

…also held a patent saying:
👉 “Actually, it protects your brain.”

You can’t make this stuff up.

Cannabis wasn’t outlawed because it was useless.
It was outlawed because it was too useful — and couldn’t be controlled the same way.

Yet here we are, still arguing about it like it’s witchcraft.

🤔 FINAL THOUGHT:
When a plant threatens profits, control, or narratives, it doesn’t get debated.
It gets renamed, criminalized, and memory-holed.

History isn’t hidden.
It’s just selectively taught.

Alicia Haggermaker
Contributing Editor

12/13/2025

Tonight, (http://www.mineralmarket.org/Dec_13_2025.shtml) is our very first EVENING MARKET - the Marché de Noël at the Mineral Farmer's Market! From 4-8 pm. Do join us.

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