NORML - Smoke the Vote.- See your representatives' grades from A to F. Enter your zip code or address.
Ballotpedia's Sample Ballot Lookup Tool - Ballotpedia. Enter address. You will then see the candidates and ballot measures on your ballot. You can click on any candidate or ballot measure for much more info.
A voter's guide to registering to vote and early voting in all 50 states and D.C.
Same Day Voter Registration. Hover over any state on the map.
When Is My Voter Registration Deadline? By state.
State Laws. NORML. Click on state on map.
Marijuana Policy Project map. Click on state on map.
Search Google for Polling Location or Early Voting.. Then enter your street address to get your voting location and hours.
How to Track Your Absentee Ballot by State. Check the status of your mail-in ballot.
CannabisVoter.info. HeadCount’s Cannabis Voter Project | Voter Registration and Education. Click on your state to determine which anti-cannabis Republicans to vote out.
NORML. Current medical marijuana states, with map. |
Wikipedia: Postal voting in the United States. Many states now allow no-excuse postal voting without requiring a medical reason.
Latest on Republican cannabis war
See more recent Republican voting history concerning cannabis:
Vote out most Republicans and their cannabis war.
Detailed history of marijuana on the ballot - Ballotpedia. Years, charts, timelines. And: Marijuana on the ballot. By year.
Cannabis. Elections history
2022. A Mixed Bag: State Marijuana Ballot Initiatives in the 2022 Election Cycle. "After the 2022 election, nearly half of the United States population will live in a state with legalized recreational marijuana."
Politico has 2020 Presidential candidate positions on many issues, including marijuana.
6-7 Nov 2018: Election results 2018: States legalize marijuana, felon voting rights.
2018. Highest midterm eligible voter turnout (50.3%) since 1914. [3][4][5][6][7].
2018. GOP Congress Has Blocked Dozens Of Marijuana Amendments. |
2018. Republican Congressional Committee Blocks Marijuana Votes (Again). |
2018. Could Legal Marijuana Tip the Senate for Democrats?
12 Oct 2018: Republicans Have a Secret Weapon in the Midterms: Voter Suppression.
26 Sep 2018: In These Red States, the Health of More Than 450,000 People Is on the Ballot.
25 Sep 2018: Americans! Your voting habits are terrible, so register to vote.
30 Aug 2018: Senate Showdown 2018: 12 Important Races to Watch. Photos. Freedom Leaf.
16 Aug 2018: State Ballot Measures in Midterms Range From Medicaid to Marijuana. AARP.
21 April 2018: Legal Marijuana Is Incredibly Popular With Marginal Voters. By Sean McElwee.
12 April 2018: The largest block of voters in America isn't Democrats or Republicans. It's the people who don't vote. What we could achieve if everyone voted.
26 Feb 2018: Voting registration drive makes inroads in unexpected territory: county jails. By Michael Livingston. Los Angeles Times.
2018 West Virginia state candidates on cannabis.
Rock the Vote. "Our generation is getting screwed by a system and leadership that don’t reflect our vision for the future. The average monthly student loan payment for young Americans is 50% higher than it was in 2005, while the federal minimum wage [inflation-adjusted] is worth less than it was over 50 years ago."
Under Trump, real wages are not just flat, they are falling. Real wages are inflation adjusted. Listen up, Trump cupcakes. Your fearless leader screwed nearly all of us. Share widely. |
Vote Smart - The Voter's Self Defense System. [8]. Look up politician, candidate, or zip code. Then look for "marijuana" from speeches tab, etc..
Legalisation or Prohibition? Here's Where Italy's Political Parties Stand on Cannabis. Feb. 20, 2018. By Federica Brioschi, Italian Coalition for Civil Liberties and Rights.
A or F? How Congress scores on marijuana. 2. By Danielle Keane, NORML political director. 2016. "Of the 233 Democrats in Congress, 208 members (89.3 percent) received a passing grade of a 'C' or higher. Of the 302 Republicans in Congress, 102 members (33.8 percent) received a passing grade of a 'C' or higher." For your state see: Congressional Scorecard. NORML. Grading was based upon members' voting records. |
Map of all U.S. marijuana laws by state (map updated to 2018). |
See: File:The history of state marijuana ballot initiatives.jpg The history of state marijuana ballot initiatives. From Freedom Leaf magazine and news. [9][10].]]
Vote out Conservatives worldwide
Holy War on Drugs, Conservative-led global incarceration. Progress in cannabis liberation could stagnate if anti-cannabis Conservatives are not booted out state by state, nation by nation.
- Isle Of Man Could Be The First Place In The British Isles To Decriminalise Cannabis Possession. From the article:
Isle of Man officials visited Durham - home to one of several UK police forces that have stop pursuing people for cannabis possession for personal use, though having any amount remains illegal under the Misuse Of Drugs Act. ... [Conservative Prime Minister Theresa] May recently reaffirmed the Government's position, dismissing a Tory colleague who criticised it during Prime Minister’s Questions. |
US Republican gerrymandering
How the GOP Rigs Elections. "With a combination of gerrymandering, voter-ID laws and dark money, Republicans have tipped the political scales in their favor. ... Republicans now hold as many as 22 additional House seats because of gerrymandering." By Ari Berman. Jan 24, 2018. Rolling Stone.
- The Top Five Gerrymandering Cases to Watch in 2018. By Lily Price. January 8, 2018.
Early voting calendars and info
- Early Voting Calendar - Vote.org.
- Absentee and Early Voting. National Conference of State Legislators.
- Early voting - Ballotpedia.
Voting info
27 Sep 2018: All the Information You Need to Vote in the 2018 Midterm Elections. So, Register to vote!
Google your question, and see specific info for your state or address. Google: Vote early. And: Google: How to register to vote. Online, by mail, or in person. Google: Where do I vote? And: Google: Am I registered to vote? |
U.S. election info. State by state: Voter registration info, deadlines, etc.. Online, by mail, in person. Early voting and absentee voting. [11][12][13][14][15][16]. And: Are you registered, and where is my polling place.
Voting reform
Independents greatly outnumber Democrats or Republicans in the USA. If anti-cannabis Republicans are to be voted out of power, then all Democrat primaries need to be opened to independents. See Wikipedia: Open primaries in the United States. And: Wikipedia: Blanket primary. And: Wikipedia: Nonpartisan blanket primary.
Vote!
- So You Want to be a Cannabis Activist? Here’s How to Get Started.
- Medical Marijuana Laws. US maps by year of approval.
- States with Legislation or Ballot Measures to Legalize Medical Marijuana. ProCon.org.
- The GOP’s War on Voting Is Working. June 29, 2016.
- Vote Medical Marijuana - poor record of most Republicans. Americans for Safe Access. Scoring of legislative records of candidates. Facebook.
See also: Cannabis polls.
Above timeline of polls is from this article:
Latest Gallup Poll Shows Only 2-in-5 Americans Oppose Marijuana Legalization. October 21, 2015. |
In the 1970s several states decriminalized cannabis. Support for marijuana reform temporarily declined after Reagan and others (mostly Republicans) escalated the propaganda war on cannabis in the late 1970s. It escalated dramatically during Reagan's 1980 election campaign, with cooperation from many other fanatic anti-cannabis Republicans throughout the 1980s. See: Reagan's war on cannabis. Text about Reagan was added to the above graph of polls.
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US legislation
2016 US election
2016 Global Marijuana March and 420 events. Public opinion wins elections. Global Marches matter!
Articles written before the November 8, 2016 election in the USA:
Republicans are busy filing retrograde drug bills across the land. Republicans want to put a conservative drug warrior on the Supreme Court to replace Antonin Scalia, and to reinvigorate their drug war. Supreme Court rejects conservative challenge to Colorado marijuana law from Republican states. 2. |
USA Today: 11 states least likely to legalize marijuana. Republican states across the nation.
After the US election, marijuana could be legal for recreational or medical use in 29 states. |
As of Illinois decriminalization on July 29, 2016 there are 20 states plus the District of Columbia that have decriminalized or legalized recreational marijuana.
Marijuana in the South: A State-by-State Guide. Republicans created a THC-free south. |
Map is from before the 2016 election:
- Which States Are Going To Be Voting On Marijuana Reform In November 2016?. And: Up to 12 States Could Vote on Marijuana This November -- Here They Are. 5 June 2016.
2014 US election
See: Cannabis and 2014 U.S. election.
See also
- Cannabis polls.
- The U.S. Drug War. Republicans lead. Has section on 2012 election.
Cannabis is safer
Return to top. Full site / Mobile. To Top or End. See 2024 GMM-420 on Fandom and on Shoutwiki.
Note: This section and the following ones are at: Beyond drug war, debt, and wealth concentration. To single-payer healthcare and progressive taxation.
See articles: Cannabis is safer. And:
History of US Republican-led war on cannabis, and their lies about its health effects.
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Portugal's decrim
Return to top. See: Portugal. Cannabis-related links and decriminalization. See the utter failure of the US Republican-led drug war and mass incarceration: It is killing Americans at the rate of one Vietnam War every 6 months.
There were around 112,100 US drug overdose deaths in the 12-month period ending August 31, 2023, at a rate of 307 deaths per day. 335 deaths per million US population. Only around 10 to 72 total deaths per year in Portugal, a country with universal healthcare, and where all drugs have been decriminalized since 2001. See timeline table of yearly overdose deaths by European country.
Chart from: December 15, 2020 article: Scotland's drug death crisis in six charts. BBC News. |
Harm reduction
Return to top. End the expensive, incarceration-heavy US drug war with Portuguese and Canadian single-payer universal healthcare, and Portuguese decriminalization.
Government debt
Return to top. Share link: Debt ceiling. See: Wikipedia: US debt ceiling.
Save $1.5 trillion:
Per year in the US:
Single-payer
Return to top. Republicans oppose single-payer universal healthcare. US would save 1.5 trillion dollars per year if it instituted Canadian universal healthcare. That is 5.4% of US GDP.
Canada spent 11.2 percent of its GDP for total healthcare costs in 2022. US spent 16.6 percent in 2022. Besides bankrupting the US due to GOP ideology, Americans have high personal medical debt, unlike Canadians. [17][18][19]. High student debt is another problem Americans have due to GOP ideology, unlike Canadians. Changing the age of adulthood to 17 would free up a year of education money.
US is Broke, not Woke. Healthcare spending and debt ceiling.
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Richer Canadians
Return to top. Many sleepy Americans can't do the math concerning healthcare costs and medical debt. Also, incarceration and family debt due to the GOP-led war on drugs. Also US student debt, and US household debt due to GOP's low minimum wages, etc...
Canadians are richer on average than Americans, and they have more energy because Canadians don't have to take 3 jobs, go bankrupt, or sell their homes, due to medical and student debt. See Wikipedia: List of countries by total health expenditure per capita. See: Student debt balance is forgiven after 15 years payment in Canada.
USA. Two Leading Economists Say Medicare for All Would Give 'Biggest Take-Home Pay Raise in a Generation'. |
Medicare spends 1.4% on bureaucracy. Insurance companies spend 16-20%. See chart. We need Medicare for All. |
Healthier Canadians
Return to top. See: End drug war with universal healthcare and decriminalization. Cannabis is legal across Canada. See Wikipedia: Cannabis in Canada.
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US Republicans Voted Often to Kill Coverage of Pre-Existing Conditions. [20][21][22].
Health spending
Return to top. Republicans are responsible for the large US government deficit. Because they support the wasteful US healthcare system over the much cheaper single-payer universal healthcare in Canada and elsewhere. See: Canadian single-payer universal healthcare versus US healthcare.
Wikipedia: Health spending by country. Percent of GDP. See Gross domestic product. 11.2% for Canada in 2022. 16.6% for the US in 2022. |
See Wikimedia chart source. |
Wikipedia: Health spending per capita. OECD countries. US dollars, using economy-wide PPPs. Public, private, and total expenditures. $6,319 for Canada in 2022. $12,555 for the US in 2022. |
See Wikimedia chart source. |
Poor and sick:
Return to top. Canadians are healthier on average, and their preventive healthcare is much cheaper! Versus US Emergency Room care. See Wikipedia: Health spending as a percent of GDP by country (gross domestic product). And: Wikipedia: List of countries with universal health care.
"The Easy-to-Digest Republican Party Platform" from Michael Moore has this image: "Keep 'em poor and sick". |
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Republican states;
Prohibition plus;
Return to top. See Wikipedia: Republican states.
See article: US Republican states. It's not just cannabis prohibition. Many maps. It's also their low minimum wages, high Covid death rates, poor healthcare, high household debt, high gun death rates, high homicide rates, high incarceration rates, etc.. See: Drug war and other excessive uses of force. They are autocratic gerrymandered states that have long avoided federal oversight due to the Republican filibuster. See Wikipedia: Filibuster in the United States Senate.
The US Republican Party wants to concentrate wealth at the top. So they want most people to be Broke, not Woke: Trickle-down economics. See: Beyond drug war and conservatism.
The federal minimum wage would be $13.46 in 2022 dollars if its real value had remained at the 1968 level. Even more in 2023 dollars. See graph below.
Note the low minimum wages in the Republican south: |
See Wikimedia SVG map. See PNG map [23] (for Facebook, etc.). |
History of the US federal minimum wage. $13.46 inflation-adjusted peak in 1968. $7.25 an hour now due to Republican filibusters in the US Senate. See Wikimedia GIF chart. |
- See Wikipedia: Republican states.
- Wikipedia: List of US states by minimum wage.
- Wikipedia: List of European countries by minimum wage.
Voter suppression;
Return to top. Vote out the many Republicans supporting backward cannabis laws. It is purposely made more difficult by the lack of no-excuse postal voting. Just one example of Republican voter suppression in GOP states. Such as many states in the south.
See Wikipedia: Postal voting in the United States.
Lies of GOP radio
Return to top. Google image search: Top right wing radio hosts.
How Fox News and the Right-Wing Media Machine Made My Dad Crazy. Republicans dominate talk radio. Especially in the Republican south with its backward cannabis laws.
See Wikipedia: Conservative talk radio. A percentage of people in many states do not have access to broadband internet, and desktop or laptop computers. Cell phones are a poor substitute for many people. So they are left with Republican misinformation radio.
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Senate filibuster
Return to top. A minority of Senators should not be able to block cannabis laws supported by the majority of Americans.
The War on Cannabis. It accelerated in the US, and that's where it will end. US Congress could legalize, reschedule, or remove cannabis from the federal schedule if the Republican filibuster were gone. Vote in US Senators who will abolish it. [24][25][26][27]. Senators Manchin or Sinema could abolish it now.
Electoral college
Return to top. Presidents should not be elected who do not receive the highest number of votes.
Abolish the electoral college. Imagine the US without the 12 years of the Bush and Trump presidencies and their backward cannabis policies.
Ranked voting
Presidential veto
Return to top. Presidents should not be able to block cannabis laws supported by the majority of Americans.
See Wikipedia: Veto power in the United States.
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End war powers
Return to top. Nixon, Reagan, and Bush are responsible for the US War on Drugs, and the lie that massive incarceration is a solution. See more lies in
Reagan's frequent demonization of cannabis.
Presidents have too much power. Wars later determined to be started based on lies of Presidents, or done in secret:
Vietnam War: President Johnson and the lie of the Gulf of Tonkin incident.
Cambodia: Nixon and Kissinger's secret B-52 carpet bombing campaign that helped create the unrest that led to Pol Pot's genocidal regime. And Kent State shootings in US.
Iraq War: President Bush and the lie of the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
Trump and Biden
Return to top. Institute a mandatory retirement age for US Congress members and the President. [28]. Mandatory retirement exists for many US judges. Both Donald Trump and Joe Biden are too old to be President.
Generic Democrats
Return to top. Biden and Trump both underperform generic opponents, poll finds. A Plea to Biden: If You Truly Want to Prevent Trump Authoritarianism, Please Withdraw. Trump was not good for cannabis reform the last time around. We need more cannabis reform. That does not come from the Republican Party. Generic ballot : 2024 Polls | FiveThirtyEight. Democrats need to jump into the Presidential race, whether or not Biden drops out.
Tax cuts for rich
Return to top. New Massachusetts 'Tax the Rich' Law Raises $1.5 Billion for Free School Lunch and More. "requires people with incomes over $1 million, to pay a 4% annual surtax,"
Trump's 2017 tax cuts for the rich. |
On average, taxpayers in the income groups highlighted in yellow will incur a net cost (shown as a positive figure as this reduces the budget deficit), due in part to reduced healthcare subsidies. Higher income taxpayers receive a benefit via tax cuts (shown as a negative number as this increases the budget deficit). The percent of taxpayers in each income group is also shown for the 2023 period. "Taxpayer" in the chart refers to a tax return, meaning it could represent one person or a married couple filing jointly, among other options. [29][30]. Commons source. |
Wealth inequality
Return to top. See: Wikipedia: Progressive tax. And: $8.5 Trillion in Untaxed Assets: Data Shows Why 'We Need a Billionaire Income Tax'. EXCERPTS: analysis found that the wealth of America's billionaires and centimillionaires has exploded in recent years as Republicans have enacted massive tax cuts for the rich ... "The cumulative $8.5 trillion of unrealized capital gains held by America's billionaires and centi-millionaires in 2022 has jumped by more than half–or $3.2 trillion–just since the last Fed survey year of 2019," END.
USA. The sorry state of the nation.
US federal income tax rate on billionaires averages only 8.2%. Click image to enlarge. |
"Most taxpayers, including firefighters and teachers, average a federal income tax rate of approximately 13.3%." |
Minimum wage
Return to top. Beyond drug war, debt, and wealth concentration. To single-payer healthcare and progressive taxation. Simultaneous with the Republican-led drug war the GOP used the Senate filibuster to undemocratically severely restrict increases in the minimum wage at the federal level, and in GOP states.
US minimum wage would be $23 an hour in 2021 if it had kept up with productivity. |
Source article. [31]. |
- A $15 minimum wage would cost jobs, right? Probably not, economists say.
- There’s More Evidence That Raising the Minimum Wage Won’t Cost Jobs.
- The U.S. has one of the stingiest minimum wage policies of any wealthy nation. Washington Post.
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Global warming
Return to top. World Population Clock: 8 Billion People (LIVE). We need more trees and less people. More oxygen, less carbon dioxide. To slow down global warming. "Assuming no net migration and unchanged mortality, a total fertility rate of 2.1 children per woman ensures a broadly stable population." - Fertility rates. OECD Data. See country graphs. Also, inflation comes from an increasing population sharing one planet's resources.
Many US Republican leaders oppose birth control and abortion rights (even early abortion). Another reason besides their backward cannabis laws to vote them out. Birth control and abortion (especially early abortion) is legal (even free) in many countries. That needs to expand further.
We need the lowest curve below, by lowering the birth rate.
Immigration
Return to top. The US and Europe can't import all the overpopulation of the world. Europe, especially, is already too densely populated. US Democrats and progressives in Europe need to limit immigration, or they will lose power, and cannabis policies will stagnate under right wing rule. Taxes on the rich will be cut yet more, which by definition means middle class taxes will go up, or stay up, to pay for it. Wikipedia: List of countries and dependencies by population density.
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Roswell. Warming
Share link: Roswell UFO. Much UFO technology has been back engineered, and its carbon-free energy could end global warming. See Stephen Greer video. [32][33][34][35] [36][37][38][39] [40][41]. More: [42]. See also the David Grusch disclosures at July 26, 2023 House hearing about US possession of aliens, alien bodies, alien craft, and back engineering: [43][44][45][46] [47][48][49][50][51] [52][53]. See History channel: [54][55][56]. National Geographic: [57][58].
See the July 8, 1947 Roswell Daily Record below. Image info. Click image to enlarge. Full-size is readable. See full text of saucer article. [59]. U.S. Army officer Walter Haut issued the initial "flying disc" press release. His 2002 notarized affidavit said there were 2 crash sites, and that he had seen a craft, alien bodies, and handled wreckage material. (see page 14 of pdf). It was released in a 2007 book after his death in 2005.
Affidavit is on pages 239-242 of the 2022 edition: Witness to Roswell, 75th Anniversary Edition: Unmasking the Government's Biggest Cover-up (more eyewitnesses). 36 pages previewed in Google Books. Click "preview" button and scroll down to pages 239-240. Search within the book. There is an inexpensive Kindle ebook. Moonwalker Dr. Edgar Mitchell wrote the foreword. The 20 paragraph affidavit is online here: [60] (page 14). [61][62].
Haut's daughter, Julie Shuster, in 2002, 3 years before his death, "verbally discussed each and every sentence" of the affidavit with him. She said it was not a deathbed confession. See Sept 2007 MUFON UFO Journal. Issue 473. Page 15. And this article from Special Broadcasting Service. Archived. See Julie Shuster on IMDb.
Google search: Walter Haut 2002 Roswell affidavit. Articles about Haut:
30 June 2007: Roswell officer's amazing deathbed admission raises possibility that aliens DID visit. By Nick Pope. Same article also published here and here. Archived here and here.
5 June 2022: Roswell officer's deathbed confession about theory of alien cover up. By Declan Carey. Archived here.
14 May 2021: Ex-Army officer ADMITS he saw ‘alien the size of a 10-year-old child’ after famous Roswell UFO crash in incredible video. By Emma Parry. Archived here. This article has a short excerpt of the video.
May 2021: Roswell Officer Speaks From the Grave: Video Released, Confesses that Alien was "the size of a 10 year old". By Anthony Bragalia. Archived here. From article (emphasis added): "This video clip is part of a memoir video / oral history over two hours in length that covers many personal and professional aspects of Haut's life. The video was taken at the Roswell Museum in 2000 with friends Dennis Balthaser and Wendy Connors."
Galactic March
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