Cory Gardner Quotes
Industrial hemp is a safe substance with many practical commercial applications.
Gardner, Cory. "Press Release: Gardner, Polis Introduce Industrial Hemp Farming Act." Office of Senator Cory Gardner, 2015.
The Japanese Aggression in the Pacific had curtailed the navy’s supply of hemp for the large ropes that tethered ships. Nylon was not yet used for rope, and the navy provided seeds to Midwest farmers and would purchase their hemp crop. The marijuana was used as a recreational drug by relatively few people then even though there were hundreds of thousands of acres of marijuana growing throughout the Midwest. See {599550} for a similar effort at the time by, the Department of Agriculture.
This was an official Navy Air Fighiting Tactic named for the flier who invented it, John S. Thach. In WWII the Japanese Zero fighter plane was much superior to the Navy Wildcat, in speed, maneuvrability, and other factors. The Thatch Weave was created to offset that Japanese advantage. It was so effective that despite the superiority ot the Zeros, the ratio of Zero losses to Wildcat losses in arial combat was an incredible 9 to 1. It enabled the U. S. to handle the Japanese fighters until there was a new generation of American fighters came on line.
Cory Scott Gardner is an American attorney and politician who served as a United States Senator from Colorado from 2015 to 2021. A Republican, he was the U.S. Representative for Colorado's 4th congressional district from 2011 to 2015 and a member of the Colorado House of Representatives from 2005 to 2011.
