To prevent seafood fraud and provide more consumer knowledge about the seafood we eat.

There are 100+ million chronic pain patients, who are now considered a part of the "War on Drugs." This war should only concentrate on the cartels, drug smugglers and abusers. Not real patients with real, intense pain, with no hope for any relief but the medications, our doctors prescribe. Sometimes medications which are opiates, the last hope in relieving our pain. We are forced to take these because everything else, we've tried, has worked. We don't sell our precious pain medications, because we need them for our intense pain. So we can cook, clean our homes, take care of families, etc. Our pain is such that it not only is extremely painful, like cancer patients feel, but it is exhausting, debilitating and causing most of us just to lie in bed in pain. Yet, people who don't suffer or have anyone, in their lives, who are suffering are making impossible for us to get any relief. They simply don't know what the pain, chronic pain patients are feeling. The DEA isn't just concentrating on the ones who abuse and make money from these opiates, no, they are also harming us! They are oppressing our doctors, pharmacies and honest manufacturers, as well, making them from helping us. So much so, most doctors won't treat us, anymore, or they just disappear, on us. We are NOT drug abusers, we don't sell our precious medications, which gives us relief from our intense pain, which we need to live our daily lives. Most of all, we don't get "highs" from these medications, for it is going directly to the pain sites. Unlike drug abusers, using drugs for recreation or sell them for profits. Please stop treating us as if we are. Our doctors carefully monitor our prescriptions, as well as the pharmacies. Our insurances, such as my disability insurance, cover these necessary medications, as well, so they are monitoring us, too. Stop the DEA from oppressing us, our doctors, pharmacies and honest drug manufacturers, but focus on the abusers! PLEASE HELP US, enjoy life too, even though our chronic, intense pain won't ever go away, but at least makes us more human. We are part of the "We the People," we want the "Liberty and Justice for All," too. But, we are treated less than animals, who get more humane treatments, than chronic pain patients. We didn't ask to be this way, we are sick because of hereditary, the jobs and the services we were part of, from exposure to asbestos and other harmful substances, we didn't know were affecting our health. Some suffer from accidents, the wars, from bad surgeries, too. I suffer from scoliosis of the spine, I was born with, which is now affecting my entire half of my body. I also have been diagnosed, for many years, with Mixed Connective Tissue Disease and Crest Syndrome, diseases that will eventually affect all my organs, such as my heart. I have a leaky valve, as well. Eventually, I will die, not a long life, but at least having a less painful life, if I can continue with my medications. I am, also, trying to care for my ex-husband, who is destitute and blind, with no one else to care for him. My income is too low for two people. I can't afford to go to a pain clinic, which is four hours from my home, also because it is too painful. I can't find a doctor, nearby who will help me, because of the DEA. This is also the problem for all chronic pain patients, all over the U.S.A! We write about our conditions and troubles, in finding help, for us. If all the non-sufferers would take the time to find "Chronic Pain Patients" on the Internet and read our stories, maybe then, with the knowledge they gain, they will understand our situations and our suffering. Please, help us keep our precious medications, so we can enjoy, at least, reading a book, seeing family and friends, without pain. Please, give our lives back. We are NOT Drug abusers.

We all suffer. I know first hand how blind spots in our awareness contribute to our individual and collective suffering. No matter what side of the political line you fall on, more insight, awareness, and inner peace is the only way we get out of the struggles we find ourselves in. Let's go in together.

My son Michael (who just turned 26) almost died on January 29, 2014 in Prison. Corizon is the Medical Provider for Inmates. Corizon was not giving Michael the care he was requesting and on January 29, 2014 collapsed in Prison from a rupture aneurysm that caused him to have a stroke. Michael needs intense therapy for he is paralyzed and Corizon feels 2 hours a week is good enough for Michael to gain his mobility back. Michael is in a State Prison for a 5 years sentence for Drugs. He has completed almost 4 years. Michael would get his intense therapy if he was at home finishing his time out. He is young and deserves to get the help he needs.

There has been a big controversy regarding same-sex marriage. California has often changed its mind regarding same-sex marriage as to should we allow this or should we not. Gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgenders in California should be able to legally get married without having to fly to another state to do so.

I have no health insurance because I declined Medicare Part B. Open enrollment is only 3 months out of the year. If you decline Medicare Part B for any reason you will not be allowed to enroll again until the next year starting January and ending in March. However it is not valid until July 1. You could find yourself with no medical insurance up to 15 months. Help me change open enrollment to all months of the year and Medicare Part B take effect 30 days from enrolling.

Florida has already passed Charlotte's Web providing limited use of medical marijuana.We need to ensure the passage of amendment 2 in November and the governor should be aware that the people want and need this amendment passed for the right reasons. Regardless of party affiliation the governor should listen to the people and if passed in November should be signed immediately! I am behind this legislation 100% and.will.hold seminars around the state to.inform and educate so the voters will have the truth before casting their vote. Join me in signing this petition to demonstrate to our elected officials our mandate to legalize medical marijuana.

Many veterans have not been getting the care they need or getting grossly inadequate care from the VA Medical System. This is to the point that they are literally dying, some by their own hands, while waiting for the government and system that sent them to war to treat their wounds. It's simple we pass a law that sends each veteran an insurance card that allows them to go wherever they want to get the care they need and they're covered.

We're having Fall fire season in the Spring this year. This is unprecedented for modern California. While driving north on interstate 5 from SanDiego, I saw several motorists driving with their lit smokes out the window, while Camp Pendleton burned a few hundred yards away. This is ignorant and crazy. We need a statewide awareness campaign. Where's that Smoky the Bear when we need him?!

Aloha! Hawaii’s First Congressional District—urban Honolulu— is one of the most Democratic districts in the country. It gave Barack Obama 70% of the vote in both 2008 and 2012. The district was long represented by a member of the liberal Congressional Progressive Caucus, Neil Abercrombie, who is now Governor. For the last two terms, the district has been represented by a member of the conservative New Democrat Coalition, Colleen Hanabusa. She’s leaving the seat, which provides a good opportunity to again install a progressive. In a crowded race, there is only one candidate who has pledged to join the Congressional Progressive Caucus—Honolulu City Councilmember Stanley Chang. Chang is a former student of Elizabeth Warren at Harvard Law School and says he wants to go to Congress to work with her on a progressive, populist future for America. He will protect the right to choose, fight climate change, seek to label GMO food and protect civil liberties. Stanley is a great candidate. But he hasn’t been in office long, and he’s currently losing to veteran politician Donna Kim, a Democrat who’s much more conservative than Hanabusa and out of touch with the district. Kim opposes LGBT equality and has a mixed record on ethics, labor and the environment. This district deserves much better. This isn't Louisiana or Utah; we don't have to settle for a conservative Democrat in this seat. It’s time for local and national progressive groups to rally behind Stanley before the Aug. 9 primary. We the undersigned urge everyone in Hawaii and the rest of the United States who considers themselves a progressive to join us in endorsing Stanley Chang for Congress! Mahalo!

I started a commentary about this program on Animal Planet's Facebook page and have received over 3,500 supportive comments. This also spawned a MoveOn petition demanding the show be cancelled. I would like to reach everyone who signed that petition (over 6,000 at last check). If you could alert them to this petition, this one will receive broad support.

My family attends Global Youth Charter and the Principal is shutting down the sports program. There will be no sports program next school year. We should be concerned about this because the kids will no longer be able to play sports and will no longer have an after school activity to prevent them from getting into trouble. Canceling the sports program is a huge mistake to take away from these kids who want to play, who want to show their school spirit, and even be able to put it on their college applications that they played Varsity sports.