91 people a day die from opioids in this country. We can do something to stop this epidemic if we ensure that medical cannabis is part of a comprehensive pain management strategy. The Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis must include expanding access to medical cannabis in their recommendations.

Millions of Americans will be devastated by GOP proposals to repeal large portions of the Affordable Care Act, which has provided life-saving coverage and protections for so many. Our political leaders should be putting patients over politics as they shape the future of health care in our nation.

With the onslaught of objectionable actions occurring in Washington it is easy to become reactive while the Republicans drive the agenda. We need to acknowledge that the odds are against saving the ACA and think one move ahead.

Climate change affects all, especially future generations. We need to be proactive.

We don't require our representatives to have a specific background, sometimes to our detriment. All we ask is that they have the desire to serve their constituents honestly and to work for the public good. Recently 2 potential candidates, Kim Weaver (Iowa) and Michael Treiman (New York) received threats of violence against their families and themselves if they continued to run for office. As a result, both dropped out of their respective races, leaving their opponents to run unopposed. This is a direct attack on our democracy. This is not and should not be a partisan issue. Anyone who attempts to subvert our democracy by threatening potential candidates with threats of violence and/or death endangers the very foundation of our government and should face imprisonment and heavy fines.

Our beautiful state has been a great tourist attraction for many years due to our natural resources such as our national forests, our rivers, lakes, and many rapids. People from all over come here to relax, take in Mother Nature's beauty, and explore our beautiful state parks and lakes. Even in the winter, this state offers an abundance of skiing and winter activities. We need to defend all of this natural beauty from the ravages of climate change and damaging forces being brought down upon our state. Please sign this petition to encourage our lawmakers to follow in the footsteps of 12 other states by passing a bill to protect us according to the Paris Climate Agreement and Stand Up and Speak Out against the Trump administration's decision to put our great state at risk in the future. Please stand with me and let the leaders of our state know how you feel and that you want to preserve our natural, beautiful, and wild and wonderful West Virginia for all of us and our future generations!!

I am a young father of a beautiful little girl. I have several preexisting conditions that directly affect me and my daughter. I will no longer stand for this. We are to resist as one.

The United States government has a history of refusing to recognize leaders of foreign countries who obtain their positions through illegitimate means. In a country founded on the principle of the people as sovereign, our responsibility as citizens requires us to apply the same expectations to ourselves as to our neighbors in the world. An emerging body of evidence strongly suggests that a hostile foreign power colluded with influential members of the Trump campaign to undermine the integrity of our electoral system and install a puppet administration. We reject this undermining of our democratic traditions.

Momentum is building to raise the minimum wage. Several states have already taken action — Connecticut has boosted it to $10.10 by 2017, the Maryland legislature just approved a similar measure, Minnesota lawmakers just reached a deal to hike it to $9.50. A few cities have been more ambitious — Washington, D.C. and its surrounding counties raised it to $11.50, Seattle is considering $15.00 Senate Democrats will soon introduce legislation raising it nationally to $10.10, from the current $7.25 an hour. All this is fine as far as it goes. But we need to be more ambitious. We should be raising the federal minimum to $15 an hour. Here are seven reasons why: 1. Had the minimum wage of 1968 simply stayed even with inflation, it would be more than $10 an hour today. But the typical worker is also about twice as productive as then. Some of those productivity gains should go to workers at the bottom. 2. $10.10 isn’t enough to lift all workers and their families out of poverty. Most low-wage workers aren’t young teenagers; they’re major breadwinners for their families, and many are women. And they and their families need a higher minimum. 3. For this reason, a $10.10 minimum would also still require the rest of us to pay Medicaid, food-stamps, and other programs necessary to get poor families out of poverty — thereby indirectly subsidizing employers who refuse to pay more. Bloomberg View describes McDonald’s and Walmart as “America’s biggest welfare queens” because their employees receive so much public assistance. (Some, like McDonalds, even advise their employees to use public programs because their pay is so low.) 4. A $15/hour minimum won’t result in major job losses because it would put money in the pockets of millions of low-wage workers who will spend it — thereby giving working families and the overall economy a boost, and creating jobs. (When I was Labor Secretary in 1996 and we raised the minimum wage, business predicted millions of job losses; in fact, we had more job gains over the next four years than in any comparable period in American history.) 5. A $15/hour minimum is unlikely to result in higher prices because most businesses directly affected by it are in intense competition for consumers, and will take the raise out of profits rather than raise their prices. But because the higher minimum will also attract more workers into the job market, employers will have more choice of whom to hire, and thereby have more reliable employees — resulting in lower turnover costs and higher productivity. 6. Since Republicans will push Democrats to go even lower than $10.10, it’s doubly important to be clear about what’s right in the first place. Democrats should be going for a higher minimum rather than listening to Republican demands for a smaller one. 7. At a time in our history when 95 percent of all economic gains are going to the top 1 percent, raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour isn’t just smart economics and good politics. It’s also the morally right thing to do. Call your senators and members of Congress today to tell them $15 an hour is the least American workers deserve. You can reach them at 202-224-3121. PLEASE SIGN THIS PETITION!

Billions of our dollars are being wasted on futile, endless wars, while serious problems here at home go neglected. The climate catastrophe and nuclear weapons threaten the existence of all of us.

This is a person who did the right thing for the right reasons. She was not violent. Did she commit a crime? There is more evidence that Donald Trump and Jeff Sessions committed crimes than anything Reality Winner has done. The administration will try to sweep her under the carpet. I ask you, my fellow citizens of this country, to support, uphold and dignify this young woman as the heroine that she is.

Along with most Americans, a large majority of Coloradans recognize the huge threat posed by climate change and want to take action to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases.