Some People say They’ve Been Injured by Neuroweapons. Should We Believe Them?

(LifeSiteNews) — Consider the following scenario: multiple reports describe people strangely losing their balance and feeling almost as if an invisible force had made them fall backwards. Some of the reports include other symptoms like confusion, visual disturbances, sharp, sometimes pin-pointed pain which randomly re-locates, and an overall feeling of disorientation. Most of the reports appear to be trustworthy although some are difficult to determine. Some report the phenomena in a hysterical way, but you determine that the hysterical reporting in and of itself does not necessarily discredit the source. Thinking about it a moment, you realize that if you experienced such phenomena, you might also report them or describe them in a hysterical way.
You assume the cause of the phenomena is not spiritual, supernatural, or of demonic origin; thus, as an inquiring person, you begin searching for scientific phenomena like chemicals and/or technologies which could cause such an effect. Diseases are ruled out as potential causes; for this scenario, we’ll say that those who reported the phenomena were also normally aware of their brain and physical state.
During your literature research, you discover the technologies described by scientists as “directed energy weapons” which use radiofrequency waves, microwaves, millimeter waves, or similar scientific phenomena to remotely, silently, and invisibly cause several of the effects (loss of balance, pain, confusion) described in the trustworthy reports as well as other harmful effects like visual disturbances, hearing problems, etc.
Continuing your search along these lines, you try to determine who would make and who could purchase such directed energy weapons. You discover that a major, reputable, and significantly government-funded arms manufacturer has developed a weapon which can be operated secretly and “shoots” invisible and silent millimeter waves that cause several of the described effects on the human body. Additionally, you discover that a separate company developed a similar, handheld, technology that can be used from over a mile away from the targeted person.
Then you discover that a handheld form of this weapon was developed almost 20 years ago and was openly marketed and advertised to police, the FBI, and other law enforcement entities. You search endlessly for confirmation that law enforcement owns and uses such technologies, but discover only that entities like the FBI and local police are allowed (or, rather, they allow themselves) to keep their technologies, methods, and employees secret.
Thus, about the only information you have is the above: the weapons were available and ready for use at least 20 years ago and advertised to police by a large company which manufactures arms for the military, and so on. What are some reasonable conclusions?
First, you think a minute and realize that a company would not openly advertise a technology to police and the FBI if that technology were illegal. Thus, you conclude that the technology should at least presumed to be (even if wrongly) legal.
Then you think about the type of people who work for local police and the FBI: the macho-man (or wannabe macho-man) and whichever kind of woman who, like the macho man, would say something like: “Man, this is cool. Never seen it, but I’d love to be like one of those Star Wars folks. I could knock people over and hurt them from a mile away with invisible and silent guns which shoot at the speed of light? Let’s buy 1,000,000 for the government, and I’ll borrow one for myself.”
You eventually realize that in many, if not most, professions there are people who could not possibly keep such technologies secret if they knew co-workers were using them. Thus, you conclude that while it is likely that the FBI and/or local police probably do use the silent and invisible directed energy weapons which were at one time advertised to them publicly, it is unlikely that they let many employees know about them. In fact, you conclude that such weapons would probably most often be used by those who live near a targeted person or are otherwise able to secretly get close to a targeted person.
In other words, undercover or secret police employees and their bosses are probably among the only people to know about the weapon. The other people likely to know about the weapon, of course, are the unfortunate targets of good physical and mental health who experience the strange effects.
Here you make an important conclusion: if such invisible and silent weapons are going to be prevented from future use, it will require listening to those who suggest they might have been hurt by them – even if those self-identifying victims are somewhat hysterical in their books or other reports.
Going further, you conclude it to be possible that the government might even plant false news stories claiming that police and other law enforcement have never used those technologies, or that the technologies were too large to be carried around, or some other propaganda to make Americans feel safe and as if the technologies were not used on them.
Thus, at this point in your research and thinking, you conclude that, at minimum, a secretly and remotely operated directed energy weapon is one possible cause of the trustworthy reports of having lost balance while feeling as if a force were pushing him backward and other symptoms described above.
Would those be reasonable conclusions? Or was the thought process described above flawed or even delusional?
This scenario has been presented to you in part because Americans should be committing to memory the fact that such a cause – a secretly operated remote weapon which causes falling and several other effects – has been available and advertised to police and other law enforcement since at least 2006.
The weapons use directed energy, also known as electromagnetic energy. To be specific, the technologies use millimeter wave energy, microwave energy (which can cause brain damage if focused into the skull), or other energy focused onto or “into” a target. Radiofrequency energy might also be used to describe such technologies.
(It is also relevant that microwaves can go through or “see through” walls, as exhibited by this Massachusetts Institute of Technology microwave camera and a similar U.S. government technology; such technology could be combined with directed energy weapons to harm and/or torture a person in their own home, in church, etc., by a person in a secret and remote location. The microwave cameras or other similar radar technology make it possible to see where a person is located in a building and the directed energy weapon can then be aimed at his location.)
There are multiple kinds of directed energy weapons, some not mentioned in this article. One apparently can be operated from over a mile away; some are hand-held, as small as a flashlight and/or pistol. The names of some of these weapons are the Defender, Guardian, and Silent Guardian. Raytheon, the relatively well-known U.S. military contractor, developed the Silent Guardian while a company named Laser Energetics, Inc. developed the Defender and Guardian. A law enforcement technology journal article from 2009 explains:
The Arizona-based Raytheon developed its ADS [active denial system] Silent Guardian in 2006. According to the company, Silent Guardian Protection System “uses millimeter wave technology to repel individuals without causing injury … without the use of lethal force.” The system sends a focused beam of millimeter wave energy penetrating into the target’s skin. This produces “an intolerable heating sensation” ceasing when the victim leaves the beam.
The statement that the millimeter wave technology is used “without causing injury” is controversial and might be incorrect, although the controversy and contrary evidence is not within the scope of this article. An archived Raytheon listing of the technology from 2006 explains that the Silent Guardian could be used by law enforcement and that “the system is available now and ready for action.”
Related technologies are described in the same 2009 law enforcement technology journal article:
Announced at this year’s [apparently 2009] Memorial Day parade in New York, Laser Energetic’s Dazer Lasers discharge a modulating green beam meant to temporarily impair a threat’s vision, equilibrium, awareness and causes nausea. When hit in the eyes, the effects take place immediately — even penetrating the eyelid if the threat closes his eyes, yet another reaction to aid in controlling the suspect. While the reactions are different, like Silent Guardian, “being dazed” begins to disappear once removed from the beam. Vision impairment and imbalance can last up to 30 seconds while the nausea may last longer.
Impairing “equilibrium” means causing a person to lose balance and potentially fall. Thus, while the weapons are said to be non-lethal, they clearly have the potential to cause death directly or indirectly (for example, causing someone to fall from a lethal height or to develop fatal pneumonia after breaking a hip). Meanwhile, a similar handheld technology was being developed by the U.S. government at approximately the same time. (How many more similar technologies were already developed but not publicized?)
Finally, it is significant that law enforcement technologies used by the FBI or local police may be kept secret; news articles which claim that “these technologies are not available yet” or “no law enforcement entity or police are using these technologies” might be incorrect. Stories about technologies always merely “in development” but not in use are to be expected. Such technologies could be kept secret from the media.
Now, there are several questions to ask here. Is it likely that law enforcement uses secret weapons (ones likely even more advanced and improved than the 2006 or 2009 models mentioned above)? One could reasonably conclude that law enforcement, at very least, might indeed be using the secret, invisible weapons.
The apparent popularity of such technologies – the fact that several different companies and the U.S. government were developing the technologies – and that the technologies were already “available” and “ready for use” in 2006 might suggest that the technology is currently in use.
Another question: Could the weapons mentioned above be described as “neuroweapons,” that is, weapons which affect the brain? Law enforcement and the makers of those weapons apparently do not describe them as such, but they are indeed neuroweapons for they do affect the brain (causing “equilibrium” problems, etc.). Thus, it is reasonable to conclude that the U.S. government, local police, the FBI, and others could be secretly using neuroweapons against Americans. Other countries could also be using such weapons against their citizens.
Still another question: Could such a secret technology be used by government employees to torture someone? The answer is obviously yes, especially when, again, combined with microwave cameras or other radar technologies which see through walls. The torturer could see a person inside their home, church, etc. at any moment, and then use the other technologies to cause severe pain, loss of balance and falling, loss of vision or other visual problems, possibly even aneurysm rupture, and other types of torture. (Triggering an itch through histamine production (page 12) and muscle spasms (page 6) or twitches might be possible with remotely operated and focused electromagnetic energy technology, although advertisements for the specific weapons mentioned above do not mention these possibilities.)
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Then, what if a person is a likely target of neuroweapons? For example, say a person was known to be closely followed by law enforcement, and for whatever reason law enforcement employees do not like this person. Say the person experiences one or more of the symptoms described above during separate instances – loss of balance, vision disturbances, the feeling of some sort of force, confusion, brain aneurysm rupture, etc.–when they are sober and otherwise completely healthy. If law enforcement, the FBI, or other entities were to blame for harm to this person, how could he or she receive the justice that is his or her due?
The macho-man type found in law enforcement tends not to, as they say, “snitch,” on others within their group. This is the “blue wall of silence,” having a group dynamic in common with a mafia or a gang. If one member harms someone or commits other crimes, most of the others do not even think about risking becoming unpopular by snitching. Also, obviously, law enforcement employees have weapons – potentially or likely including the secretly functioning weapons mentioned above. Is a law enforcement employee going to blow the whistle on co-workers if he or she knows that the co-workers could covertly retaliate by torturing him or her?
Even further is the problem of how government lawyers would go about prosecuting the people they depend on for what they do. To risk seeming hyperbolic, would a government prosecutor or attorney general go after her chefs, chauffeurs, or bodyguards? Phenomenology and common sense say, “Probably not.”
Still, there is a need for laws which at least attempt to protect citizens from such harm. These laws should be retroactive (in part because, although they are invisible, the above weapons are violent and their use could be torture) in the event that future government employees will do more to provide justice to some harmed by such technologies.
The discussion could continue, but the reader will have got the point: if a person suggests (even hysterically, again, because strange phenomena like feeling an invisible force push one backwards normally cause terror) that they might have been the target of secretly operated invisible and silent neuroweapons, it is reasonable to, at minimum, conclude that such secret weapons used by police or other government entities are a possible cause.
Most of Today’s Vaccines are Developed with Aborted Fetal Cell Lines – Here’s the Full List

The abortion industry, the organ harvesting industry and the vaccine industry work together. Their operations go hand-in-hand. The current supply of vaccines for children and adults is based on a history of brutality toward the unborn. In order to develop vaccines, human fetuses must be strategically picked apart, their organs harvested, the cell lines reproduced for vaccine manufacture.
There are six main types of cell lines used to develop biologics (vaccines). Four of these cell lines involve the sacrificial use of aborted fetal cells. The list of vaccines that exploit fetal cell lines in the manufacturing process is exhaustive.
These aborted fetal cell lines include the WI-38 diploid human cell line, which is composed of fibroblasts taken from the lung tissue of a 3-month-gestation female fetus. Vaccines also utilize the HEK-293 cell line, which is isolated from the kidney of a human embryo. Third, vaccines contain the MRC-5 diploid cell line, which consists of fibroblasts isolated from the lung tissue of a white male, 14-week-old embryo. Finally, vaccines are derived from the RA 27/3 cell lines, which have been taken from attenuated fetal kidney cells since 1964.
Here is the full list of vaccines that contain the WI-38 cell line:
1. MMR (M-M-R II)
• Type: Live attenuated
• Components: Measles, mumps, rubella
2. MMR (ProQuad)
• Type: Live attenuated
• Components: Measles, mumps, rubella, varicella
3. Varicella (Varivax)
• Type: Live attenuated
• Components: Varicella-zoster virus (chickenpox)
4. Zoster (Zostavax)
• Type: Live attenuated
• Components: Varicella-zoster virus (shingles)
5. Hepatitis A (Havrix)
• Type: Inactivated
• Components: Hepatitis A virus
6. Hepatitis A (Vaqta)
• Type: Inactivated
• Components: Hepatitis A virus
7. Rabies (RabAvert)
• Type: Inactivated
• Components: Rabies virus
8. Rabies (Imovax)
• Type: Inactivated
• Components: Rabies virus
9. Pentacel
• Type: Combination (inactivated and toxoid)
• Components: Diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (DTaP), polio, Hib
10. Kinrix
• Type: Combination (inactivated and toxoid)
• Components: Diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (DTaP), polio
11. ProQuad (MMRV)
• Type: Live attenuated
• Components: Measles, mumps, rubella, varicella
Here is the full list of vaccines that contain the HEK-293 cell line:
1. COVID-19 Vaccines
• Comirnaty (Pfizer-BioNTech) – mRNA vaccine
• Spikevax (Moderna) – mRNA vaccine
• Vaxzevria (AstraZeneca/Oxford) – Viral vector vaccine
• Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen COVID-19 Vaccine – Viral vector vaccine
2. Shingles (Shingrix)
• Type: Recombinant
• Components: Recombinant varicella-zoster virus (shingles)
3. Hepatitis A (Havrix)
• Type: Inactivated
• Components: Hepatitis A virus
4. Hepatitis A (Vaqta)
• Type: Inactivated
• Components: Hepatitis A virus
5. Rabies (RabAvert)
• Type: Inactivated
• Components: Rabies virus
6. Rabies (Imovax)
• Type: Inactivated
• Components: Rabies virus
7. Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Vaccines
• Gardasil 9 – Recombinant HPV vaccine
8. Hepatitis B (HEPLISAV-B)
• Type: Recombinant
• Components: Hepatitis B virus surface antigen
Here is the full list of vaccines that contain the MRC-5 cell line:
1. MMR Vaccine (Measles, Mumps, Rubella)
• Examples: MMR II (Merck), Priorix (GlaxoSmithKline)
2. Varicella Vaccine (Chickenpox)
• Examples: Varivax (Merck), ProQuad (Merck, which combines MMR and varicella)
3. Hepatitis A Vaccine
• Examples: Havrix (GlaxoSmithKline), Vaqta (Merck)
4. Rabies Vaccine
• Examples: RabAvert (Pfizer), Imovax Rabies (Sanofi Pasteur)
5. Polio Vaccine (Inactivated Polio Vaccine, IPV)
• Some IPV vaccines, like those produced by various manufacturers, might use MRC-5 cells in some production processes, though often Vero cells are used.
6. Shingles Vaccine (Herpes Zoster)
• Examples: Zostavax (Merck, for older vaccine), Shingrix (GlaxoSmithKline, primarily produced using insect cells, but initial strains may involve MRC-5)
7. Some Vaccines for Cancer Treatment
• Examples: Certain experimental cancer vaccines and treatments might use MRC-5 cells.
8. Certain Influenza Vaccines
• Some influenza vaccines might use MRC-5 cells in their production process, though this varies widely by manufacturer and formulation.
Here is the full list of vaccines that contain the RA 27/3 cell line:
1. MMR Vaccine (Measles, Mumps, Rubella)
• MMR II (Merck)
• Priorix (GlaxoSmithKline)
2. MMRV Vaccine (Measles, Mumps, Rubella, Varicella)
• ProQuad (Merck)
3. Single Antigen Rubella Vaccine
• Meruvax II (Merck)
• MMR (Single Antigen) (Various brands in different countries)
The current vaccine supply is fundamentally tainted with the blood of slain human beings. Products that are developed with morally controversial procedures should be re-evaluated and considered both unethical and unscientific. While these vaccine products remain on the market, a growing number of families are rejecting them based on religious grounds, and are invoking religious exemptions to vaccination for school, work and travel.
ANOTHER Activist Behind LGBTQIAAP2S+ Propaganda in Schools Convicted of Child Abuse

(LifeSiteNews) — The LGBT movement in Scotland has been rocked by yet another scandal. Last month, 39-year-old Andrew Easton was convicted at the Aberdeen Sheriff Court after being caught by cybercrime officers on an internet chat talking to someone Easton believed to be a 13-year-old boy.
Easton referred to the boy as “baby boy” and was soliciting explicit photographs from him. He is now a convicted pedophile. He is also, as it turns out, an LGBT activist who co-authored a taxpayer-funded guide on coming out as transgender for children… as young as 13. According to the Daily Mail:
Easton, who was convicted at Aberdeen Sheriff Court last month, helped to produce a guide for LGBT Youth Scotland (LGBTYS), which receives thousands of pounds from the Scottish Government and local authorities. He contributed to an early version of ‘coming out’ guidance issued by the controversial organisation, whose former chief executive James Rennie is serving life for sexually assaulting a baby boy. Schools, local authorities, the Care Inspectorate and government-run health and social care authorities have been given an updated version but LGTBYS admits the original guide, co-written by Easton, may still be in use.
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Note well: two people associated with the guide on “coming out” have now been convicted of pedophilia. Educational psychologist Carolyn Brown told the Sunday Postthat the guidance co-authored by Easton is “manipulative and influencing” and is packed with “misinformation.” According to the Sunday Post:
LGBT Youth Scotland boast they have “trained” thousands of teachers over LGBT inclusivity. Schools, local authorities, the Care Inspectorate and government-run health and social care authorities made the guide available to children from the age of 13. LGBT Youth Scotland attempted to distance themselves from Easton, who demanded to be called “daddy” and used secure messaging to send messages to his schoolboy victim, and photographs of his private parts.
Easton, who hails from Kennethmont in Aberdeenshire, also distributed 32 videos of children between the ages of four and eight years old to other pedophiles (the photos were considered to be in the serious “category A”). For those crimes, he was sentenced to a paltry Community Payback Order, 200 hours of unpaid work, supervision for three years, and has been put on the sex offenders’ register – for only three years.
As Tory Member of Scottish Parliament Meghan Gallacher stated: “This is a deeply disturbing situation. It is long overdue that we audit just how much money this organisation receives and seek assurances over what safeguarding assessments are in place.” The Scottish government responded by stating that “education authorities are responsible for ensuring visitors undergo disclosure checks and LGBTYS’s safeguarding policy is an operational matter for the organisation.”
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Alba MSP Ash Regan concurred, stating: “Serious questions must be asked about why Scottish children’s educational guidance is being shaped by unqualified lobby groups that not only overreach their published remit but operate without any apparent oversight.”
We know the answer to that, of course. In many countries, the sexual education of children has been outsourced to radical LGBT groups who create content designed to normalize virtually all sexual practices
Our “sex education” is actually a calculated agenda of corruption in which the innocence of children is deliberately subverted, and they are introduced to a wide range of sex acts as well as gender ideology. Parents have been cut out of the process by the public schools; instead, groups like LGBT Youth Scotland have been given free access to tens of thousands of young minds.
Hundreds of Doctors Resign from British Medical Association for its Support of LGBTQIAAP2S+ Child Mutilations

The British Medical Association (BMA) recently came out to oppose an existing ban on puberty blockers for children in Great Britain, prompting hundreds of doctors in the United Kingdom to resign in protest and disgust.
The physicians who called it quits from the BMA say the union is ignoring evidence-based medicine by continuing to support the grotesque and utterly perverted concept of “changing genders” by taking endocrine-disrupting pharmaceutical drugs that destroy a child’s hormonal system, probably for life.
It is all fun and games until all that drugging and mutilating catches up with a person, and yet BMA leadership think they know better than science and common sense what is safe and effective for a child suffering from gender dysphoria.
The BMA wants the government of the U.K. to lift its puberty blockers for children ban, as well as pause the implementation of the National Health Service’s Case Review.
(Related: Did you know that the British Medical Journal [BMJ], which is run by the BMA, contends that unvaccinated people should be forced to get injected through targeted “behavior interventions?”)
“Not in my name,” disgusted doctors tell BMA
Before this mass exodus, roughly 1,000 senior physicians from across the U.K. published an open letter to BMA chairman and professor Philip Banfield accusing him and the 69-member council that controls the direction of the BMA of passing this new union policy position at a “secretive and opaque” meeting.
That open letter, which now has more than 1,400 senior physician signatures, 900 of which are from BMA members, calls out the doctors’ union for basically doing its own thing without support from a majority of the union’s members.
“We write as doctors to say, ‘not in my name,’” the letter states.
“We are extremely disappointed that the BMA council had passed a motion to conduct a ‘critique’ of the Cass Review and to lobby to oppose its recommendations … It does not reflect the views of the wider membership, whose opinion you did not seek. We understand that no information will be released on the voting figures and how council members voted. That is a failure of accountability to members and is simply not acceptable.”
Concerning the Cass Review, the letter goes on to call it “the most comprehensive review into healthcare for children with gender related distress ever conducted.” Since the BMA has chosen to do nothing but attack the Cass Review, the signatories are now calling on the union to “abandon its pointless exercise” in opposing the review’s recommendations.
“By lobbying against the best evidence we have, the BMA is going against the principles of evidence-based medicine and against ethical practice,” the letter continues.
Many of the comments on The Times in response to the letter are from people who claim to be doctors saying that they “have torn up their membership cards” in response to the BMA’s official position in support of transgender child mutilation.
“As a union, primarily, it is the role of the BMA to represent its members, and not to drive clinical opinion, especially in specialist areas,” one of them wrote. “I am considering resigning after membership of 42 years.”
“I left the BMA partly because of this sort of behaviour on the part of the leadership, having been a member for some thirty years,” said another.
Many others used words like “abysmal” to describe the current leadership structure at the BMA, which is becoming “increasingly bonkers and ideologically captured.” They also called for a “vote of no confidence in BMA leadership” to oust the current controllers of the union.
LGBT child mutilation is one of the sickest perversions in existence and Western leaders are all about normalizing it. Learn more at Evil.news.
Trump Signals Support for Proposal that will Legalize Recreational Marijuana in Florida

(LifeSiteNews) — President Donald Trump is continuing to moderate on social issues.
In a Truth Social post published this past weekend, the former president, who is a resident of Florida, expressed support for a ballot proposal that would legalize marijuana in the Sunshine State.
“In Florida, like so many other states that have already given their approval, personal amounts of marijuana will be legalized for adults with Amendment 3. Whether people like it or not, this will happen through the approval of the voters, so it should be done correctly,” Trump wrote Saturday.
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While touting his “law and order” platform, Trump further added that “someone should not be a criminal in Florida, when this is legal in so many other states. We do not need to ruin lives [and] waste taxpayer dollars arresting adults with personal amounts of it on them.”
Trump proceeded to call on the Florida state legislature, which is dominated by Republicans 83-36 in the House and 28-12 in the Senate, to “responsibly create laws that prohibit the use of it in public spaces, so we do not smell marijuana everywhere we go, like we do in many of the Democrat run cities.”
Trump’s post comes at the same time he was forced to issue a clarification of his opposition to Amendment 4, a Florida ballot proposal that would enshrine abortion-on-demand by overturning the state’s six-week abortion ban and allowing unrestricted abortion up to “viability,” which is usually set at around 24 weeks’ gestation, as well as permitting abortion up to birth for so-called “health” reasons
After pro-lifers decried Trump for stating that six weeks is “too short,” his campaign quickly issued a statement saying he “has not yet said how he will vote on the ballot initiative in Florida, he simply reiterated that he believes six weeks is too short.”
In an interview with Fox News the next day, August 30, Trump admitted that he will vote no on the amendment, which he criticized for allowing the “ridiculous situation” of abortion in the ninth month of pregnancy.
Kamala Harris’ campaign has accused Trump of “brazen flip flops” on marijuana. In a statement, they argued that “as President, his own Justice Department cracked down on marijuana offenses,” such as “withdrawing guidelines to limit prosecutions of marijuana offenses that were legal under state laws” and for “removing medical marijuana protections.”
In 2019, Trump helped pay for an ad campaign warning about the drug’s side effects. His Surgeon General Jerome Adams and Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar also advised against marijuana legalization.
Trump’s pivot on the issue suggests he may be seeking to peel off young and minority voters from Harris, who, despite being in favor of the drug now, was attacked by Tulsi Gabbard in the 2020 presidential primary over it. During a debate, Gabbard accused Harris of putting “over fifteen hundred people in jail for marijuana violations and then laughed about it when she was asked if she ever smoked marijuana.”
In 2022, voters in Arkansas, North Dakota, and South Dakota rejected ballot measures that would have legalized recreational marijuana, which has been linked to cognitive decline and has long been considered a gateway drug that leads to more dangerous narcotics usage. Nineteen states plus the District of Columbia allow recreational use of marijuana at present. Thirteen states have banned it outright.
In April 2024, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration under Joe Biden announced it was easing restrictions on marijuana by reclassifying the drug from a more restricted Schedule I substance to the lesser Schedule III category.
RFK Jr. Forced to Remain on the Ballot in Key Battleground State of Michigan Despite Requesting Withdrawal from the Race

The name of independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will still appear on ballots in Michigan in November, even after withdrawing his presidential bid and endorsing Republican presidential nominee and former president Donald Trump.
In a press conference in Phoenix on Aug. 23, Kennedy suspended his presidential bid and admitted to the public that he no longer saw a path toward victory. Kennedy explained that internal polling showed his candidacy could harm Trump’s chances while inadvertently helping Harris, though recent public polls do not clearly support this claim. Regardless, after several discussions with Trump, he decided to withdraw and support the former president, instead.
(Related: RFK Jr. suspends campaign with singular focus: Ending childhood illness epidemic.)
In line with this, he also sought to remove his name from the ballots in 10 key battleground states.
“In about 10 battleground states, where my presence would be a spoiler, I’m going to remove my name. And I’ve already started that process and urge voters not to vote for me,” Kennedy said.
However, the office of Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, a Democrat, claimed that Kennedy would still be listed as the nominee of the Natural Law Party after the party selected him as its nominee at its state convention back in April.
“Minor party candidates cannot withdraw, so his name will remain on the ballot,” said Cheri Hardmon, a spokeswoman for Benson, in an email on Aug 23. “Michigan Election Law requires presidential electors be selected at the fall state convention. The fall state convention must be held no later than the date of the primary. The Natural Law Party held their convention to select electors for Robert Kennedy Jr. They cannot meet at this point to select new electors since it’s past the primary.”
RFK Jr. faces similar problems in other key battleground states
Similar situations are unfolding in other states where election officials have also indicated it is too late for Kennedy to have his name removed from the ballot.
In North Carolina, the State Board of Elections claimed that Kennedy’s withdrawal came just as ballot printing had begun across the state. As of Aug. 29, approximately 1.73 million ballots were already printed in over 60 counties, including those for military personnel overseas and individuals with vision impairments.
Karen Brinson, the executive director of the State Board of Elections, clarified that removing Kennedy’s name would involve reprinting and redistributing the ballots, which would take at least 13 days and incur extra costs. Considering the tight timeframe and the expenses involved, the board concluded that making the changes was not feasible. This, in turn, resulted in the rejection of Kennedy’s withdrawal.
Similarly, in Wisconsin, the Elections Commission voted to deny Kennedy’s request to be removed from the ballot. The decision was based on Wisconsin law, which states that candidates who have filed nomination papers and qualified for the ballot cannot subsequently withdraw.
As of now, reports also claim that Kennedy may also face difficulties in removing his name from ballots in other battleground states like Nevada.
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