New tool enables patients, advocates to make informed choices by reviewing voting record of elected officials Washington, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)–October 25, 2012.  The medical marijuana advocacy group Americans for Safe Access (ASA) launched a new website today — VoteMedicalMarijuana.org — that provides patients and their supporters with the tools they need[Read More…]

Washington, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)–October 25, 2012.  The Center for American Progress yesterday released a new report titled, “A Dual Disenfranchisement: How Voter Suppression Denies Reproductive Justice to Women of Color,” showing that voting rights is a reproductive justice issue. During this year alone, nearly 1 million women of color will be[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–October 25, 2012.   In a new explanatory video Michael Linden, Director of Tax and Budget Policy at the Center for American Progress, offers a remarkably clear look at the precise sources of the $6 trillion in government debt accumulated over the last decade. The federal budget deficit consistently polls[Read More…]

Blacks and Latinos Disproportionately Arrested Colorado Voters to Decide on Making Marijuana Possession Legal With November Vote New York–(ENEWSPF)–October 25, 2012.  With just two weeks remaining before Colorado’s voters decide whether to make marijuana possession legal in their state, a new report — “210,000 Marijuana Arrests In Colorado, 1986-2010” —[Read More…]

Report endorsed by President Santos of Colombia and with contribution by former Swiss President Ruth Dreifuss. NEW YORK—(ENEWSPF)—October 23, 2012.  The global war on drugs has failed and international policy requires radical reform to remove outmoded, unscientific thinking, according to a major new report from the London School of Economics[Read More…]

CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–October 22, 2012.  Mitt Romney’s Romnesia has apparently spread to his national security positions. He’s tried to backpedal on his bluster, his pledge to arbitrarily increase defense spending by $2 trillion without saying how he’d pay for it, and his criticism of the President’s commitment to getting our troops home.[Read More…]

New York –(ENEWSPF)–October 22, 2012.  A new report released today by the Brennan Center for Justice analyzes the spending patterns emerging in the 25 most hotly contested House races, which will likely determine which party will control the House. Using the most recent Federal Election Commission campaign finance filings and[Read More…]

Marijuana Reform Is An Increasingly Mainstream, Majority-Support Position Site Lets Supporters Tweet Prominent People to Encourage Speaking Out SAN FRANCISCO, CA –(ENEWSPF)–October 22, 2012.  Just over two weeks before voters in three U.S. states decide on ballot measures to legalize marijuana, a new website launches on Monday that tracks prominent people[Read More…]

Washington, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)–October 19, 2012.   As voters contemplate who will occupy the White House and Congress in the years ahead, The Center for the Next Generation and the Center for American Progress released “Regional Energy, National Solutions,” a new report that argues that the United States needs a long-term[Read More…]

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. –(ENEWSPF)–October 18, 2012.  When it comes to the integrity and accuracy of voting systems in the United States, the good news is that widespread technological upgrades have largely eliminated the voting-machine problems that were so evident when Florida’s disputed recount determined the 2000 presidential election. The bad news[Read More…]