It's absolutly amazing to me that in a country riddled with so much political and social injustice, that a person can be arrested for smoking marijuana. While men and women fill our prisons and jails for possesion and use of marijuana. Washington continues to rip us off. And deny us the right to smoke a joint. The laws that prohibit this are older than all of us. Many people have been arrested for this non violent act. Medical marijuana has passed in 17 states to this point, but every patient who uses, posseses or cultivates is subjet to fedral prosecution. Do we really have the money in this country to continue to put people, who are hurting noone in jail. If you want to solve the defficet why not start by leaving people who smoke weed alone, and stop turning them into criminals.

A large percentage of "Beltway" lobbyists consists of former Congressional members and former presidential administration employees. Once these folks serve the needs of the electorate (hopefully), they are equipped to seek a new vocation as a paid lobbyist.

The new guidelines for Disaster Preparedness for Florida have been posted at Floridadisaster.org. The recommendations for infant feeding are not based on evidence and some of them are not only wrong but dangerous and pose a threat to our infant population should a disaster strike. The mission of the Florida Department of Health and Florida Division of Emergency Management is not being fulfilled by this type of information being given to the public. The Governor's office has access to the latest and best evidence based guidelines for bottle and breast fed babies during a disaster but has not used them in their publications. Sign our petition to get the Governor's office to use evidence based information on infant feeding, and help save the lives of our youngest residents in the case of an emergency.

It's time to hold organizations with tax exemption status accountable. Organizations with tax exemption are using those dollars to undermine how our government should work depriving citizens of equal access to healthcare, equal opportunity, and marriage equalilty.

This petition is about a former company here in El Paso Texas. The copper smelter shut down filed for bankruptcy and left a mess. The courts awarded $52 million dollars for this location and two others, Corpus Cristi, Tx and parts of Amarillio a refinery still in operations so through the courts they financed their own company.. The smelter, however, is in the worst condition. The smelter was caught incinerating nerve gases. The EPA documents stated it as a shame because there was no copper ore contents in the loads being brought in and contained nerve gases.

Wisconsin lake property taxes have been increasing consistently, to the point that the majority of lake property owners are wealthy owners from big cities with higher salaries, using their WI lake house as a second property. Keep hard-working middle-class Wisconsinites in their lake homes, don't sell out our state for others to enjoy and keep nothing for ourselves.

It's about protecting the health of everyone who shares walls, air, space in apartment and condo units. Besides entering through open windows, studies have shown that secondhand smoke can enter neighboring units under doorways and through wall cracks and openings for electrical wiring, light fixtures, plumbing, baseboards and ductwork. Some air cleaners may help to reduce secondhand smoke to a limited degree, but no air filtration or air purification system can completely eliminate all the harmful constituents of secondhand smoke. The U.S. Surgeon General has determined secondhand smoke to cause heart disease, lung cancer, and respiratory illness. Simply reducing secondhand smoke does not protect against the disease and death caused by exposure to secondhand smoke. The U.S. Surgeon General has stated that there is no risk-free level of exposure to secondhand smoke. Everyone has a right to breathe and enjoy clean air and health in their homes. This petition is requesting that an ordinance be passed (similar to Santa Monica's) fining residents of multi-unit housing for smoking within a 25-foot radius of all doors, windows, and vents.

Money from big business buys all our elected officials. Let's stop that with campaign finance reform now. No more big money buying votes. No more professional lobbying in Washington.

The majority of the populace are opposed to this abomination. It was forced upon us by legislative shenanigans. Urge your legislators to vote for reversal.

Our current Tax Code has thousands of pages and millions of words; it is incomprehensible, even by the experts and the IRS themselves. It is unfair, obscure, and subject to endless manipulation for purely political reasons. This is clearly a non-partisan issue negatively impacting all Americans. We must replace it with a tax system that is simple, honest, transparent, and fair.

The Governor of NY has proposed and the NY State Senate has passed legislation to start a new government agency called the Justice Center to investigate and prosecute all allegations of abuse to individuals with disabilities by their workers. This legislation does not include enough measures to fix a broken system that contributes to the abuse or provide any measures to support and educate good workers to keep them in the field and prevent them from becoming abusive. this petetion is to urge NY State Government to include measures to prevent abuse in this legislation.

In PA, we have thousands of people on waiting lists for needed human services to help them survive and live in the community. Why not come up with a new model for services that uses timebanks and people who have been trained by DPW to provide services. There is a model in existance in Rhode Island that does this now. It is a great help to the community.