Already 10 states and the District of Columbia have passed laws to reform the system, but we need more to join.

Watch this video to see how it’s done.

Without people like you fighting to keep their country and representatives in check, this country, as we all have seen now, will continue to fall into the hands of the 1% and disproportionately marginalize minorities and take advantage of the status quo that sweeps democracy under the carpet.

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Not sure of your congressional district or who your member is? Click here to connect with this service which will assist you by matching your ZIP code to your congressional district, with links to your member’s website and contact page.

A simple script to use when speaking to your representative.

Hello. I live in [U.S. State], and wanted to know if our state has joined the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact? (If not, explain what it is) I would like to urge [your State Representative’s name] to support joining to keep our electoral college from disregarding the popular vote in elections.

Let’s keep the pressure on our city, state and federal government officials and show them that they were put in office by the People, for the People.

It’s time that we say “Enough is Enough!”

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The U.S. government has been funding medical cannabis research for the past five decades. Only, they’ve been outsourcing that research to another country. For half of a century, the National Institute of Health has provided an annual grant to Israel for research on the herb.

You may have heard of Dr. Raphael Mechoulam. Dr. Mechoulam is the man who first discovered THC.

Back in the early 1960s, Mechoulam asked the U.S. National Institute of Health (NIH) for funding on his cannabis research. Unfortunately, true to form, they turned him down.

However, according to a Newsweek report,  one year after Mechoulam’s first inquiry, he got a call from the NIH. Apparently, after an unnamed U.S. Senator caught his son smoking a little cannabis, the senator called the NIH to find out what the herb actually did to the brain. No one had the answer.

So, the same official that once rejected Mechoulam’s research called him with some good news. The NIH would grant $100,000 to Mechoulam’s team each year for further study on the health effects of cannabis.

This funding has continued for over 50 years. This is amazing, as it is really tough to get an NIH overseas grant.

A half-century’s worth of medical discovery

In that time, Mechoulam and his team have unearthed a wealth of medical potential in the cannabis plant. This includes findings that suggest that:

• Cannabinoids aid in recovery after brain injury
• Cannabinoids have neuroprotective properties
• CBD has antipsychotic properties
• Cannabinoids may aid in autoimmune conditions
• CBD lowers incidence of diabetes 
• CBD aids in epilepsy 

The few findings mentioned here are only the very beginning of what Mechoulam and associated teams have discovered. The research conducted in Israel since the 1960s has lent itself to cannabis reform time and time again.

Without Mechoulam’s contributions, we may not have the medical cannabis programs that we have today. In his own country, Mechoulam has won several major awards and honors for his work.

In his own country, Mechoulam has won many prestigious awards and honors for his work. Now, Israel’s medical cannabis industry is booming. There, patients can access medical cannabis for cancer, chronic pain, post-traumatic stress disorder, pediatric epilepsy, arthritis, and Crohn’s disease.

Though $100,000 can go quickly in scientific research, the federal government’s generosity helped fund these incredible discoveries.

So, after all of that funding, why is cannabis still seen as having “no medical value” by the DEA and other governmental agencies?

In 2013, the NIH released even a study that described that the endocannabinoid system plays a role in “essentially every human disease”. The U.S. government currently holds a patent on cannabinoids as a neuroprotective antioxidant, which is helpful in Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases.

Dr. Alan Shackelford, a Harvard-trained, medical cannabis prescribing doctor in Colorado, explained that the U.S. doctors had no trouble prescribing the herb prior to the Reefer Madness era. He tells Newsweek,

Marijuana was an integral part of American medicine for more than 100 years, from the 1830s through the 1940s, and it was used safely and effectively for all of that time. – Shackelford

So, what’s with all of the hypocrisy? Recently, large pharmaceutical companies have made substantial donations to anti-legalization campaigns. At the same time, other companies have received special permission to test cannabis-based pharmaceuticals in U.S. patients.

Yet, everyday doctors who wish to prescribe the herb cannot since the herb has Schedule 1 status.

All but a select few independent and pharmaceutical researchers are blocked from experimenting with cannabis on U.S. soil. Though the federal government has respected state rights thus far, patients, recommending doctors, and cannabis businesses are still shunned to remain in a gray area of the law.

More than half of U.S. states have implemented some form of cannabis reform.

Why do you think cannabis remains illegal in the U.S.? Share this article, and your thought in the comments below. We’d love to hear from you!

This article first appeared on Herb.co website.

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Whether you were for him or not, Bernie spoke to the populism and anger but without the hatred, fear and demagoguery of Trump felt by the disenfranchised American worker in a way that Hillary never could.

Had Bernie been nominated, it’s hard to logically believe that he wouldn’t have taken some of the midwestern swing states that Trump did with a message that, if we’re to use the primaries as any guide, deeply resonated with the respective populations of those states.

What we now, and will find ourselves immersed in with a Trump presidency, is justifiable uncertainty and a feeling of disbelief as Americans who were clamoring for real change, have awoken to the harsh realities that we perhaps didn’t fully grasps just how easily this country, with the help of Clinton’s lack favorability, the role the DNC played by undermining their own party, the mainstream media’s impact, and the fear of Americans, which slipped this country into the rise of Donald Trump, the 45th President of The United States.

Here are the Four Insane Reasons Why Trump Won The Presidency

1. The inability of Mrs. Clinton to appeal to the masses because of her shady and corrupt background over the course of 30 years. How can anyone like a person or candidate for that matter, running for the highest position in the country, who sucks on the hindtit of the establishment for so long? Meanwhile, enriching her life through contributions that reach into the tens millions of dollars from foreign governments while sitting a Secretary of State. She was untrustworthy, a scandalous career politician, and corrupt. Her emails, and investigations by the FBI, were the tipping point that anyone needed to push them over the edge in becoming a Trump supporter. Her candidacy was doomed from the outset.

2. The DNC, through their Chair, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, who later resigned because of leaked emails that pointed to her collusion to sabotage Bernie Sanders campaign, subverted democracy by placing her own personal agenda to make sure Hillary was the nominee, likely because Wasserman-Schultz campaigned for Clinton in her run for President in 2012, and had a working relationship with her; political favors favor those seeking political power. After her resignation, Wasserman-Schultz was appointed by Hillary Clinton as honorary chair to the Clinton campaign’s 50-state program. DWS continued to push the corrupt brand of politics she perfected as DNC chair, which lost Bernie Sanders the presidency. Bernie was not only the favorite of the other two candidates, he was leading in the polls in almost every state against both Trump and Clinton. Bernie would have easily won against Trump. What DWS and the Democratic Party did verges on criminal, but without a doubt, failed all Democrats and this country.

3. The mainstream media (MSM) gave Trump a free global stage like none other in history. They hung onto every word the orange imbecile would say and report on it literally for an entire year on a daily basis. Trump spent a mere $10 million on advertising for his campaign. But the MSM gave Trump $2 billion in free advertising by airing his ‘new stories’! No other candidate has come close to that amount in free news coverage. In contrast, Clinton was given $746 million in free advertising. The MSM was complicit in electing Trump.

4. Trump’s supporters, which account obviously for the majority of voters, were fear mongered (the deliberate use of fear based tactics including exaggeration and usually repetition to influence the public in order to achieve a desired outcome) from Trump from the outset. Their fears about muslims, mexicans, conservatives and the state which their perception of the country is in, was further fueled by the exaggerated and hyperbolical language that spoke to his supporters’ fears. To that, Trump’s supporters voted for him because they didn’t like Clinton and her policies, and rightly so. The fear which was felt from the populace, handed Trump the presidency.

The desire for a socially significant moment in having our first female American president, obvious political collusion within the DNC and the existence of the Superdelegate system, created a situation where Democrats had noone to present to the majority of American voters as an antecedent to the labor-focused, populist message of Trump. Therefore, he got them all.

We can only hope that the reality within which we now find ourselves living results, four years from now, in a candidate/movement/social force that produces a profoundly liberal, leftist, pro-worker, pro-social programs, pro-equality, pro-woman, pro-environment candidate that can actually speak to the millions of Americans who have felt so forgotten for so long. I sincerely understand their complaints and just as sincerely feel that Trump doesn’t understand or empathize, nor ever will, in any way with the very people who just put him in office.

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“It is not acceptable that many young people have criminal records for smoking marijuana, while the CEOs of banks whose illegal behavior helped destroy our economy do not.” -Bernie Sanders

Bernie has introduced legislation in the Senate to federally decriminalize marijuana by taking it out of the Controlled Substance act altogether. This would also put an end to the failed war on drugs, which for many years has disproportionately targeted minorities and low-income communities. No other presidential candidate is willing to do the same.

Below is a fantastic event idea called “Donate $4.20 to Bernie Sanders on 4/20“, via Facebook. Please consider joining the event and invite your fellow cannabis supporters, friends and family to join in for a very good cause.

We urge all cannabis reformers, activists, patients, enthusiasts, entrepreneurs, advocates and professionals to donate on April 20th, $4.20 (or $42 or $420) to Bernie Sanders campaign and send a message to the establishment that alone we’re harmless bees, but together we’re a ferocious swarm that will not be silenced!

If you may not be familiar with Bernie Sanders, please take a look at his issues on his official website at BernieSanders.com.

If you feel you would like to support Bernie Sanders on his stance against the war on drugs and other important issues facing us and our country today, please make donations directly to the official Bernie Sanders campaign at https:// secure.berniesanders.com/ page/contribute/contribute

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In August 2015, at the Democratic Party convention in Minneapolis, 33 democratic state parties made deals with the Hillary Clinton campaign and a joint fundraising entity called The Hillary Victory Fund. The deal allowed many of her core billionaire and inner circle individual donors to run the maximum amounts of money allowed through those state parties to the Hillary Victory Fund in New York and the DNC in Washington.

The idea was to increase how much one could personally donate to Hillary by taking advantage of the Supreme Court ruling 2014, McCutcheon v FEC, that knocked down a cap on aggregate limits as to how much a donor could give to a federal campaign in a year. It thus eliminated the ceiling on amounts spent by a single donor to a presidential candidate.

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