Marijuana has been mislabeled a Schedule 1 controlled substance since President Nixon passed the Controlled Substances Act in 1970. While tobacco kills more people than all the drugs, legal and illegal combined, it can be sold anywhere and grown anywhere legally; marijuana can't. Congressman Dana Rohrabacher and seventeen other congresspeople have already signed a letter to ask President Obama to take marijuana off the controlled substances list. This is a great start but we need to apply more pressure. Because marijuana is considered a class 1 drug, medical marijuana stores where it’s sanctioned can’t set up a bank account, and have to operate as a cash only business. This is the excuse many cities use to try to zone medical marijuana stores out of existence. This is a Tenth Amendment issue if there ever was one. The federal government should not be telling states what their residents should be putting in their bodies. It’s time to put an end to the double standard hypocrisy and take it off the list. Thank You, Clem Dominguez

Yes, I have a loved one who is incarcerated and am directly impacted by the unfairness of this practice. The cost are exhorbitant and find it extremely difficult to be able to afford to pay for extra food to keep him from feeling like we live in a 3rd world country. He goes hungry many nights and loses weight very easy. At times others will share some leftovers from their trays. On top of the high food gouging and daily fees we also pay over $3.00 per phone call. They are there to be punished but it is extreme to add this to important basic needs and must be changed!

My petition is about getting my uncle, Clifton McKinney and everyone else that has or is being wrongfully imprisoned, the chance at a fair and honest trial or new appeal!! This issue has affected me not only because he's my uncle, but also because I feel that justice is not served when innocent people are punished for something they didn't do.

My petition is about getting my uncle, Clifton McKinney an everyone else that has or is being wrongly imprisoned, the chance at a fair an honest trial or new appeal!! This issue has affected me not only because it's my uncle, but also because I feel that justice is not having innocent people punished for something they didn't do.

Workers sickened by pesticides last August still have no justice from Ag Commissioner: Workers will hand in petition to Ag Commissioner during March 6 Rally “I work picking peaches for Gerawan. In August 2013, Gerawan workers entered a peach orchard to starting picking. They noticed a bad smell, began to feel sick & later found that this field was sprayed with toxic pesticides. It frightens me that no one even told them to keep out of the orchard like the law says. What’s scary is it could have just as easily been me. “It’s been more than a year and a half since this happened and Gerawan still hasn’t been punished for their carelessness. The Ag Commissioner ruled against Gerawan back in November. And still nothing has happened. I don’t understand it. They have been found guilty and should be fined already. “I and some of my coworkers visited the Ag Commissioner last Friday. They still couldn’t give us answers. So we want to do a demonstration in front of their office on March 6 and hand in a petition. We are hoping people from all around the country will sign it. We want the Ag Commissioner and Gerawan to realize people know about this and care. Will you sign our petition?” --Uziel Romero, Gerawan farm worker

To abolish the death penalty, since it is inhumane and does not represent our country in a very good light. The death penalty isn't helping anyone and only hurts our country and our people.

Rodney Reed was set to be executed on March 5, 2015, but he was given a stay. Now the state is trying to execute him on November 20, 2019. This is unacceptable. New evidence has been found and new witnesses have come forward since this petition was created in 2015. A new witness described a confession by Stacey Stite's fiance, Jimmy Fennel. The witness describes Jimmy saying to his cellmate that he murdered Stacey because she was secretly dating a Black man, Rodney Reed. Rodney Reed has been on Texas’ death row since 1998. He was convicted of the 1996 murder of Stacey Stites, a white woman, in the small town of Bastrop, Texas. Stacey’s brutal murder struck at the very heart of the community, not only for its brutality, but for the sinister chain of events it would set into motion. Rodney’s case is a troubling mixture of prosecutorial misconduct, police corruption, poor defense, and deep institutional racism

Jean Claude Harry a été victime de meurtre, pendu sur une place publique en République Dominicaine; référence directe au Ku Klux Klan. Les conclusions de l'enquête ont été très hâtive et le dossier traité avec légèreté. Le gouvernement Dominicain se doit de rectifier les problèmes de leur système judiciaire et assurer la sécurité de toutes personnes se trouvant sur leur territoire. Jean Claude Harry was murdered, hung in a public plaza in the Dominican Republic; direct reference to the Ku Klux Klan. The findings of the investigation were very hasty and the issue treated lightly. The Dominican government must rectify the issues lying within their justice system and insure the safety of all within their territory. Jean Claude Harry, víctima de asesinato, fue ahorcado en una plaza pública en la República Dominicana; referencia directa al Ku Klux Klan. Los resultados de la encuesta fueron muy temprano y el tema tratado a la ligera. El gobierno Dominicano debe corregir los problemas de su sistema judicial y garantizar la seguridad de todas las personas dentro de su territorio.

After over a year of pain and suffering, Dr. Lewek is finally being held accountable for his inhumane actions. Please, Please help us make sure he receives the max. sentence.

My son is a first-time offender. With the parole laws the way they are now: he will not be able to attend church with his family, be around his own children or any child, have a relationship and many other uncalled for rules. He, along with many other first time offenders, are having to pay on the inside and remain paying after released. As the laws read at the present time- these people are being set up to fail and return to prison. This only fuels mass incarceration. This leaves families to endure more heartaches and financial burdens. Yes, the laws were made to help protect our children but the way they stand right now they are helping to tear families apart. If you have to register as a sex offender you are not allowed around children even if the crime was not against a child . Every sex crime is put in the same group and not a case by case as it should be. You cannot even be in the same car with a child or attend church because there might be a child there. We need to help these people who have served time to become better citizens not continue to put them down.

The victims in this case were undocumented immigrants. Justice was denied to these people. Similar cases involving those in positions of power result in conviction of sexual battery, rape and carry harsh prison time plus sex offender registration requirements which did not happen in this case. A review of the court decision is required and necessary.

Governor Tom Wolf recently halted all executions in Pennsylvania. Now is the time to end the death penalty for good. Death penalty cases cost taxpayers far more than locking up prisoners for the rest of their lives, while providing no additional benefit to society. By replacing the death penalty with life without parole, we could free up millions of dollars that could be redirected to other public safety needs, or to help murder victims' families. Replacing the death penalty with life in prison without the possibility of parole also ensures that we’ll never execute an innocent person. At least 150 people have been wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death in the U.S., including six from Pennsylvania, and some innocent people have even been executed.