My issue is that a plant that has literally hundreds if not thousands of uses including recreational use for winding down,stress and anxiety management along with pain management and that it is perfectly safe for anyone to use while alcohol kills thousands is still not legal to consume or sell.

Life is hell on earth every minute for billions of animals! There are so many issues that need attention now, factory farms, shelters, puppy mills, vivisection, animal testing, hunting etc. The way people view animals need to change, why do we love dogs and cats and murder pigs, cows, chickens and anyone else we can make a profit off or.

The presidency of Barack Obama is historic not only because he is the first African-American president but more importantly he was able to get the Affordable Care Act passed, legislation that has been attempted for over 100 years.

President Obama has been the target of more disrespectful public acts than any president in recent history. Examples include the "birther" fabrication and the flaunting of racist signs at rallies. Sign a petition to congressional representatives and members of the media requesting that they behave respectfully toward the President and the office of the presidency. For a more complete background, go to http://www.thepetitionsite.com/948/186/375/respect-our-president/ or to http://www.facebook.com/pages/Respect-Our-President/111837788981943

SB 1080 prevents some 15,000 undocumented immigrant drivers on Oregon roads from being tested for knowledge of driving laws and for physical impairments to safe driving. Denied driver licenses, undocumented immigrants cannot purchase auto insurance, raising the risk of accidents and, therefore, the rates of auto insurance for licensed drivers.

Hemp should be a cash crop for paper, cloth, livestock feed and bio-deisel, among other products. Regulation of marijuana should be decided at the State level. Decriminalizing both crops will spur economic growth, reduce crowding in jails, and save taxpayers billions in incarceration costs - a win-win-win situation nationwide. It's time to end the dissonance between federal and state laws.

The Fish and Wildlife Service has opened a 90 day period for open comment from the public and the scientific community. Four public hearing will be held in February and this petition will be presented at that time..The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is considering putting the Lesser Prairie Chicken on the "threatened" list under the Endangered Species Act. The decline in this species signals that our native grasslands are in trouble. These grasslands support dozens of migratory birds, farmers, ranchers and local communities across the southwest region. We will be working alongside the Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Land Management, and the Sutton Center to preserve our environment. For the people of these states, putting the lesser prairie chicken on the threatened list opens up the possibility of putting it being a stone in the road to impede the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline Upon learning of this consideration, lawmakers in major oil and gas districts yelled "Fowl." We cannot let these industries risk our environment. The Fish and Wildlife Service has opened a 90 day period for open comment from the public and the scientific community. Four public hearing will be held on: 1. Tuesday, February 5, 2013 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.At the High Plains Technology Center Seminar Center 3921 34th Street Woodward, OK 73801; 2, Thursday, February 7, 2013 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. @ the Garden City Community College 801 N. Campus Drive, Garden City, KS 67846-6333; 3. Monday, February 11, 2013 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. Lubbock Civic Center 1501 Mac Davis Lane Lubbock, TX 79401; 4.Tuesday, February 12, 2013 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. at the ENMU Fine Arts Auditorium 64 University Blvd. Roswell, NM 88203.

Branded as a 'trade agreement', the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) is actually a stealth delivery mechanism for insidious policies that could not survive the light of day. In fact, only two of the twenty-six chapters of this corporate coup agreement concern traditional trade issues. It has been negotiated under conditions of extreme secrecy with no press, public or policymaker oversight. While some 600 official U.S. corporate advisors have full access to TPP documents and a special role in advising U.S. negotiators, our U.S. Senators and Representatives have not even seen the draft text! Leaked draft documents from the TPP negotiations reveal a massive corporate assault aimed at severely limiting our ability to: Stop off-shoring millions of American jobs Protect our internet freedom Promote "Buy American" policies Protect us from unsafe food and products Protect our environmental laws Impose oversight on the banksters Expand access to affordable medicine Create green jobs and rebuild our economy The Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) will establish a parallel court system allowing multinational corporations to bypass U.S. courts, and sue countries before tribunals which are unaccountable to democratically elected representatives. TPP member countries will have little to no right to appeal. The Obama administration has indicated that a requirement for the conclusion of TPP negotiations is the renewal of "Fast Track" Trade Promotion Authority. Fast Track requires legislators to simply vote "yes" or "no" on hundreds upon hundreds of pages of binding text. Legislators are denied their constitutional authority to amend the terms of the agreement, shielding the terms of the agreement from public inspection. Once finalized, the Trans Pacific Partnership agreement will likely be our last U.S. trade agreement. The TPP is currently being negotiated by the U.S. and ten other countries, but is intended as a "docking agreement" that other Pacific Rim countries would join over time. The Trans Pacific Partnership has been called “NAFTA on steroids”, and the agreement will have no expiration date. We need to block the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) before it overrides generations of U.S. law. Sign today and let Congress know you support the demand to bring TPP negotiations into the light. For more information go to http://www.citizen.org/TPP and http://tppxborder.org/ Want to do more? E-mail this petition to everyone you know right now! Sign on to an organizational statement of unity to oppose the TPP. See http://tppxborder.org/organizational-statement-of-unity/. Call your U.S. Senators and U.S. Representatives and tell them to demand an end to Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) secret negotiations.

Nationwide surveys indicate that texting while driving is dangerous and traffic fatalities have risen as a result. In response to this, several states have laws in place that ban texting while driving. By signing this petition you will be asking Florida lawmakers to make texting while driving illegal and punishable as a severe traffic violation.

ABUSING RACE HORSES THREW INJECTING THERE JOINTS AND THEN MASKING THERE INJURIES WITH INJECTIBLE PAINKILLERS , SUCH AS BUTE OR BANIME , ANTI INFLAMMATORY DRUGS , EVENTUALLY THEY BECOME SO SORE OR LAME THE CAN NO LONGER COMPETE , THE LUCKY ONES OR THE SIMPLY BRAKE THERE LEG RIGHT OFF AND ARE THEN EUTHANIZED

The main agenda for the doctrine was to ensure that viewers were exposed to a diversity of viewpoints. We NEED this in America!

Millions of Americans have been and are being forced into bankruptcy because of the failure of the countries health care system to provide them affordable health care. Those Americans and their families should not have to bear the burdens of damaged credit ratings and the record of bankruptcy when it was the health care system that had failed them.