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Since Obama won reelection a week ago, the White House website has been flooded with petitions from citizens in various states wanting their states to secede from the union.  It is important to note that these are not official petitions by the state governments but rather petitions started by individual citizens. The threat of secession is nothing new in the United States.  It seems that after any election, people want their states to secede so that they don't have to live under a leader they d

During this election cycle, IVN covered third party candidates to ensure voters could access information about the wide range of choices they had at the ballot box. Gary Johnson, from the Libertarian Party, received 1,139,562 votes which represents 0.9% of the popular vote. He is the third party candidate who has done the best this year, but fell far short of the 5% needed to receive public funding for the 2016 Libertarian candidate. He is, however, the most successful Libertarian Party candida

of all US Senators are up for re-election. Every two years approximately one-third 1. Max Baucus (Montana) Baucus is the longest-serving US Senator in the history of Montana, having first won election in 1978. He has voted to allow concealed carry and was a major player in the passage of the Affordable Care Act. 2. Mark Begich (Alaska) Begich is the former mayor of Anchorage and defeated Ted Stevens in 2008, the longest-serving Republican US Senator in history. In his term in the Senate,

Credit: medicalmarijuana.procon.org The cities of Del Mar, Lemon Grove, Imperial Beach, and Solana Beach all voted down propositions that would have allowed medical marijuana dispensaries to set up shop within their city limits.  Del Mar’s Prop H, had the added incentive of altering the City’s sales tax laws to give Del Mar a direct economic benefit from dispensary sales.  Regardless of advertised incentives, voters in these cities decided that the burdens of regulating San Diego dispensaries o

Photo: Yahoo! Several states tried to legalize marijuana this election, with Colorado and Washington actually passing the initiatives. Recreational use of the drug will now be legal in those states. Colorado, the more ambitious of the two, amended its constitution to legalize marijuana. Amendment 64 not only allows people over the age of 21 to possess and consume limited amounts of marijuana, but it also allows for licensed cultivation facilities, product manufacturing facilities, retail store

Photo: Yahoo! Several states tried to legalize marijuana this election, with Colorado and Washington actually passing the initiatives. Recreational use of the drug will now be legal in those states. Colorado, the more ambitious of the two, amended its constitution to legalize marijuana. Amendment 64 not only allows people over the age of 21 to possess and consume limited amounts of marijuana, but it also allows for licensed cultivation facilities, product manufacturing facilities, retail store

[Update 8:18 PM PST] IVN.us announces Barack Obama has been re-elected to a second term. [Update 8:17 PM PST] CNN projects President Barack Obama will win re-election by taking the state of Ohio. [Update 8:15 PM PST] With the projection of Oregon going to Obama, statistically speaking it is very unlikely Romney will be able to pull off a victory because one more state will put the president over the top. CNN also projects Missouri to be carried by Mitt Romney. -- [Update 8:10 PM PST] Th

Credit: Scotty Starnes Today’s news for the Obama campaign is particularly poor, as the first round of early voter results are skewing toward Mitt Romney. The presidential polls in swing states have favored President Obama, but polls do not decide an election. The following numbers and analysis are based on the most recent Gallup Daily tracking study. As of today, roughly 15% of registered voters have turned in their ballots, whether through the mail or in early voting stations. This turnout m

Photo Credit: thcfinder.com Three states will attempt to legalize marijuana this November, as support for such measures grows. According to a Rasmussen poll, 56% of Americans are in favor of legalizing marijuana and regulating it in a similar fashion to alcohol and cigarette consumption. As support rises, three Western states are embracing an open-mind in the area of marijuana legalization, with the reality of legal marijuana consumption potentially materializing in Colorado, Washington and Ore

Official prescription tablet for medicinal alcohol, 1933. Credit: The Rose Melnick Medical Museum 1. Marijuana prohibition violates liberty. America has a long and proud tradition of believing in, and increasingly upholding, the right of its citizens to make their own choices about their own bodies, their own property, their own finances, and their own lives. On the progressive left, activists have worked hard for decades to guarantee that civil liberties are respected in America and a common