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Change Happens when you start contacting your leaders!

That's Right!, real change happens when you start contacting your executives and legislation, and they have made it soo easy!

∞ More important than this petition, is that you contact your leaders and tell them how you feel!
If you want this plant descheduled, it is time to tell them so!

Attorney General access: (4000 characters max) (Still set to Pamela Bondi on 4/5/2026)
https://sengov.com/whitehouse/pam-bondi/ (Has Phone # and this ↓link-goes to main white house form)
https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/ (Same page and form for the AG, HHS Sec. & President Trump)

Rober F. Kennedy access: (4000 Characters max)
https://sengov.com/whitehouse/robert-kennedy/
https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/

Senator access: (4000, or more I think)
https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm

Representative access: (4000, or more I think)
https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative

Presidential access: (4000 Characters max)
https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/

DOJ (2000 Characters)
https://www.justice.gov/doj/webform/your-message-department-justice

♥ Let’s protect the plant, restore justice, and reclaim our rights and create meaningful change for our communities.

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I /_______________/ Am Asking For:
Lawmakers, regulators, and federal agencies to:

1. Fully Decriminalize Cannabis at the Federal Level
   Remove cannabis from the Controlled Substances Act entirely.
2. Protect Patient Access and the Right to Grow
   Enshrine patient cultivation and caregiver models in federal policy.
3. Respect Full-Spectrum Medicine
   Recognize whole-plant cannabis as legitimate medical treatment—not just isolated compounds.
4. Advance True Equity and Reparative Justice
   Expunge records, reinvest in harmed communities, and protect legacy participants.
5. Respect State Medical Programs and Adult-Use Markets
   Federal policy should support—not destabilize—existing legal frameworks.

A Step Forward Should Not Be a Step Back

Schedule III may look like progress on paper, but progress that excludes patients, ignores science, and concentrates power is not progress at all.

Cannabis reform must be rooted in:

• Compassion
• Evidence
• Equity
• Autonomy

We deserve policies that reflect the lived realities of patients—not just the interests of institutions.

Decriminalization is the path forward.
Not half-measures. Not rebranding prohibition.
But real reform that honors the people cannabis has always served.

Please Deschedule Cannabis

Sincerely,

/___________________/

The Deeper Argument:

The fight  for cannabis legalization has been an arduous journey, one filled with advocacy, protests, and hope for change. However, the proposed shift of cannabis to Schedule III within the Controlled Substances Act poses a new threat. This change is deeply personal to me as it's not about forward progress but a step backward into the shadowy realms of criminalization, and inflating black markets. Rather than decriminalizing, this reclassification risks continuing the unjust penal system's targeting of ordinary citizens who merely choose a plant more benign than many legal substances.

Cannabis, historically stigmatized by arcane laws and stigmas, has proven time and again to offer significant medical benefits. According to multiple studies, including research housed within the National Institute on Drug Abuse, cannabis exhibits efficacy in treating chronic pain, epilepsy, and even certain mental health conditions. Yet, these potential life-improving benefits risk being overshadowed by the implications of a Schedule III classification that still associates cannabis with harmful drugs necessitating access only through licensed providers, and current prescriptions, delivered by a pharmacy; and control by the criminal justice system.

Furthermore, reclassifying cannabis as a Schedule III drug doesn't acknowledge the broad shift in societal attitudes nor the legalization momentum across many states. In states where cannabis is legalized, tax revenues have augmented economies, and incarceration rates for minor drug offenses have dropped, allowing for a more just and equitable society. This is progress worth preserving, not reversing.

Given the evidence available and the changing public perspective, it's clear that removing cannabis entirely from the Controlled Substances Act, rather than rescheduling it, aligns with an evidence-based and progressive approach. Doing so will allow for greater research opportunities, medicinal benefits, and an equitable legal system, that does not criminalize citizens already accustomed to accepted easy public access; and social use.

I urge policymakers to consider the countless lives impacted by this plant and to listen to the many voices calling for its complete decriminalization; schedule control of level III will criminalize all without a current prescription, to a plant, not a drug.

Backed by several organizations with multiple decades of fearless frontline service to patients and patient care— Compassion Center, which is the oldest, federally-recognized nonprofit medical cannabis clinic system still in existence; the Stormy Ray Cardholders’ Foundation, the nonprofit organization that took the lead to pioneer and pass the Oregon Medical Marijuana Act in ‘98 as well as their autonomous research extension, Cannalogix Foundation Research Institute (CFRI) in addition to the Integrative Providers Association, an organization representing over 14,000,000 licensed medical professionals, the Center for Incubation & Findings Research (CIFR), the Coalition for Patient Rights (CPR) and Pardon Me Please—we call upon every American who values medical freedom, bodily autonomy, and truth in policy to rise up and contact you leaders and have them sign our petition to deschedule cannabis!

Why Schedule III Falls Short:

The push to move cannabis to Schedule III is being framed as progress. While it may represent a symbolic shift, the rules that define schedule III are NOT being changed to accommodate the currently established culture of adult and social use.

1) Schedule III is not decriminalization - it is RE-criminalization. All social and adult use including sharing a joint will becomes illegal. Possession will be illegal without a prescription from a licensed provider, and through a licensed pharmacy, and currently scripted only in your name.

2. Patients Lose Access, They Do Not Gain It!
Under Schedule III:

• Patients WILL PAY HIGHER COSTS, patients will pay co-pays, have insurance barriers, and will have limited formularies compared to access now.
• Non-pharmaceutical forms (flower, full-spectrum extracts, artisanal preparations) will most likely be eliminated or restricted
• Approved pharmaceutical cannabinoids are often NOT created by plants, they are created by bacteria, such as e-coli, or yeasts. Yes, you read that correctly, e-coli!; colon bacteria, make cannabinoids for big pharma!
• All current Dispensaries WILL close, unless they acquire full medial clinic and pharmacy licenses.
• Only licensed medical practitioners can provide prescriptions for a schedule III drug..
• Only licensed pharmacies can dispense schedule III drugs.
• Sharing schedule III drugs is ILLEGAL

.3. Right to grow is gone. Are you allowed to make your own Oxycodone, let alone share it? If the plant is changed to schedule III, NO, you cannot.

4. Equity Is Undermined, Not Advanced - only those with financial access to licensed medical practitioners and can afford continuing copays, and approved pharmacy products will have access.

Click here to see the the Schedule III proposed rule change.

TESTIMONIALS ↓  

To add your testimonial please use comment form after submitting your petition, or send email to Jason.Greninger@Compassion-Center.org

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My name is Jeff Krajnak. 
I am the president of the Coalition for Patient Rights. I am a combat veteran who served in Kosovo, Iraq, and Afghanistan. I am a husband, a father, a coach , and a man who once stood proudly as California’s Freemason of the Year for helping families devastated by senseless acts of violence.

But today, I also stand before you as something I never imagined—a convicted felon. Simply for trace amounts of thc in my system and a man losing his life. 
Like many veterans, I returned home to a cabinet full of prescriptions—eleven pills a day, including opioids. That was my “treatment.” That was the system’s solution. And it was killing me slowly. I made the decision to break free, to step away from the pill mill that had become my reality. I turned to cannabis and CBD, and in doing so, I reduced my medications down to one pill a day. For the first time in years, I could breathe. I could think. I could live.
Then came a car accident—caused by another driver running a red light and not wearing a seatbelt. I passed every field sobriety test. I was not impaired. Yet I was deemed guilty under Nevada’s outdated, unconstitutional per se laws—laws written more than 25 years ago based on cadaver blood, not science, not impairment, and not the lived reality of medical patients.
With one ruling, the courts took my dignity, my freedom, and the medication that had restored my life. Forced off cannabis, I was driven back to 22 pills a day. That wasn’t medicine—that was punishment. And it was delivered by a system that claims to protect veterans while criminalizing the choices that keep us alive.
So I say this with absolute clarity: do not thank me for my service while veterans are still being prosecuted for choosing safer, life-saving alternatives. Honor us by protecting us. Honor us by updating laws that destroy families. Honor us by treating medical patients—especially veterans—not as criminals, but as human beings fighting to survive.
I’m not here for sympathy. I’m here so no other patient, and no other veteran, is forced to endure what I did simply for choosing health over addiction.
Thank you.
Jeff Krajnak

Battle Born Music USA LLC
Owner
Veteran
President of Coalition for Patient Rights

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Stormy, Ontario
"For the patients that can eat again, in spite of their medical treatments. For the patients that have kept their eyesight. And for patients with MS like myself, I strive everyday to share the “good cannabis information and news”. Cannabis is not a dangerous drug, it works with the body and provides relief. For many patients it means a better quality of life! There is over whelming evidence that cannabis does not belong in the Controlled Substance Act! May God bless us all."

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Stacy
I relocated to Oregon 11 years ago for access to cannabis. I am on chemo for CML (leukemia) and have a seizure condition and severe anxiety. I moved here to have better access to the plant. I believe patients have a right to their medicine without fear of employer consequences. It'd be like denying a patient their medication. Off the job has nothing to do with at work. Using your medicine of the plant of cannabis, off work, and not within times to appear to work, should be allowed by employers. Especially for patients who use it as medicine like I do.

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Jeff
Med boarded from the military addicted to opioids from prescriptions. Chose to get my life back and cannabis help my drop 11 pills. Managed my ptsd and pain using cbd .

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Denise
This is to all the people reading this. Get out from under this ridiculous concept that someone can tell you what to do. Work together and forget about these bozos who think adults can tell other adults what to do.

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Jacob
We can not loose our right to grow.

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To add your testimonial please send email to Jason.Greninger@Compassion-Center.org