VENOM FACTORIES: World Economic Forum celebrates new technology to SYNTHESIZE snake venom peptides using RNA advances for rapid venom “drug” development Thursday, April 14, 2022 by: Ethan Huff

(Natural News) Back in 2018, the World Economic Forum (WEF) published an article announcing that scientists had come up with a way to artificially synthesize snake venom peptides for drug development purposes.

Advancements in DNA and RNA technology, the article explains, make it possible to synthesize snake venom as opposed to extracting it from the animal as was previously required.

“For instance, traditionally, live venom would be extracted from the animal, then injected into an unsuspecting live rodent or fish to study its impact,” the article explains.

“Nowadays, the DNA and RNA of the venom have already been identified, which allows researchers to synthesize its components and test out their theories.”

Dr. Mandë Holford, an associate professor of chemistry at the Hunter College and City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center, is a venomics expert who works in the field and is mentioned throughout the article.

Holford helped develop captopril, an angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor drug that is used to treat high blood pressure. Its main compound is derived from a species of pit viper found in Brazil.

“Prialt, derived from the venom of cone snails, is used by some of the estimated 22 million adults in the U.S. who suffer from severe and chronic pain,” the article explains.

Insulin was the first ever snake venom-based peptide drug to be developed

Another drug class mentioned is Byetta, which lowers blood glucose in patients with type 2 diabetes. Its main ingredient, exendin-4, is found in the saliva of the Gila monster, a large lizard species native to the southwestern U.S. and northwestern Mexico.

“This has ushered in a whole new way for pharmaceutical industries to treat pain, they are now looking for things that target something other than opioid receptors,” Holford said at the time about these medicines.

The reason why snake venom works well in these applications has to do with how it targets disease.

“I like to describe venom as a cluster bomb,” Holford explained. “Its job is to shut down the normal function of the prey and in doing so, it fans out (and) hits several targets, which is a great thing for pharmaceutical development because you have several avenues to explore.”

“Because it’s so fast-acting, so potent and highly specific to its target, venom has all of the ingredients necessary for making a drug.”

The recent revelation about snake venom in the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) offers a fresh perspective on how snake venom is being used by Big Pharma and the globalists to develop new drugs.

Most people up until a few days ago probably had no idea that snake venom was even a thing in pharmaceutical development. Now we know that it is probably a key component to the plandemic.

Since the DNA and RNA of snake venom are identified and understood by the scientific community, researchers say that synthesizing its components and turning them into drugs is a relatively fast and simple process.

“These peptides have a particular structure and that structure dictates their molecular target,” Holford further revealed. “So when we get the primary sequence, we look for those codes that indicate what the structure of this peptide would be like.”

“Then we use that as a clue to try to understand if it’s going to hit, let’s say, for example, potassium channels versus sodium channels versus calcium channels, all three of which have different functions.”

One of the problems with peptide therapeutics is that they can be difficult to get into the body compared to small molecules, which are easier to make and have strong bioavailability.

More related news can be found at Pandemic.news.

Sources include:

WeForum.org

NaturalNews.com

The very enzyme that is associated with increased covid-19 mortality is blocked by an ANTI-VENOM compound Wednesday, April 13, 2022 by: Lance D Johnson

(Natural News) The American Society for Clinical Investigation published research investigating the biochemical properties of plasma taken from deceased covid-19 patients. The team of researchers wanted to “identify the cellular and molecular mechanisms responsible for severe COVID-19 that led to death.” Patients with severe covid-19 showed mitochondrial dysfunction and elevated metabolites associated with secreted phospholipase A2 (sPLA2) activity. This is the same enzyme that is elevated after a venomous snake bite. Could this increase in sPLA2 be the body’s natural reaction to infection, or could it be an indicator that the body is infected/poisoned by something more nefarious — perhaps venomous particles?

“Deceased COVID-19 patients had higher levels of circulating, catalytically active sPLA2 group IIA (sPLA2-IIA), with a median value that was 9.6-fold higher than that for patients with mild disease and 5.0-fold higher than the median value for survivors of severe COVID-19,” the study authors wrote.

Anti-venom compound being studied to help patients with severe covid-19 disease

According to years of biochemical research, a broad-spectrum ANTI-VENOM compound inhibits the very enzyme that is associated with severe covid-19 disease and covid-19 mortality. It turns out that this enzyme (sPLA2) is inhibited by an anti-venom compound called varespladib. Clinical trials show that varespladib is a potent inhibitor of secretory phospholipase A2 (sPLA2). Varespladib has demonstrated improvements in cardiovascular risks, including a reduction in inflammatory C-reactive proteins and a near complete suppression of the target enzyme, sPLA2.

Medscape article from November 2020 concurred that the lung inflammation caused by covid-19 produces the sPLA2 enzyme. The article also said a more deadly version of the same enzyme is produced by SNAKE VENOM. Researchers are using varespladib as a broad-spectrum, anti-venom drug because it targets this same sPLA2 enzyme. Researchers also want to deploy the anti-venom compound against severe covid-19 cases.

This brings up the question: Could the clinical manifestation of “covid-19” actually be the ill effects of a bioweapon that contains properties from snake venom? This may explain why severe covid patients and those vaccinated with the spike protein mRNA may suffer from dizziness, paralysis, coagulated blood and inflamed lungs. These are all similar symptoms from a venomous snake bite [Figure 6]. If severe covid-19 involves an enzyme that can be suppressed by anti-venom, does the actual SARS-CoV-2 contain genetic code from snake venom? Furthermore, are the serious cardiovascular effects from the mRNA vaccines related to this same venomous component?

Medical systems profited from covid-19 diagnoses, but understood very little about the pathology behind the actual disease

For two years, hospital systems used a long list of non-specific symptoms to code for “covid-19.” A term called “covid-19” was slapped on patients if “it” was merely “suspected or cannot be ruled out.” Moreover, hospitals relied on fraudulent PCR tests that were never intended to diagnose a specific infectious disease.

The word “covid-19” has been advertised at a mind-numbing level, without any understanding of the pathology behind the disease label or how hospital protocols exacerbated suffering and death. While the PCR tests were being used to falsely diagnose common respiratory viruses as “covid-19,” the real bioweapon could have easily evaded detection and caused unexplained inflammation of the lungs and cardiovascular system of older patients and people with comorbidities.

What we’ve come to know as “covid-19” could actually be a binary weapon based off of snake venom (and other components), which can drive severe inflammation in the lungs and the cardiovascular system. Since the covid-19 vaccines are intended to replicate similar genetic sequences of the spike protein, all these cardiovascular problems and sudden vaccine deaths could be the effects of the same snake venom properties.

Over the past two years, scientists were focused on augmenting an immune response with spike protein mRNA and the public was coerced to go along with the idea that these were life-saving vaccines; but the entire scientific and medical infrastructure could have missed the point entirely. We’re facing a long war of biowarfare, masquerading as science. The vaccinated could have been poisoned by venomous genetic instructions that poison the lungs, the cardiovascular system and the nervous system.

Maybe this is the reason why the vaccine didn’t work after the first dose; this never-ending assault is replicating venomous, poisonous components (that have nothing to do with immunity), and they are sickening the population in a more direct and deliberate manner than the original bioweapon ever could. Maybe this is the reason why the vaccinated are manifesting severe covid now, at rates greater than the unvaccinated. They are literally being forcefully poisoned to death, dose after dose.

Sources include:

JCI.org

FierceBiotech.com

Medscape.com

Nature.com

NaturalNews.com

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Snake venom company Venomtech announces partnership with Charles River Laboratories, which ran Fauci’s “secret island” of medical experiments on monkeys Thursday, April 14, 2022 by: Ethan Huff

(Natural News) In order to broaden the scope of its snake venom-derived products which are licensed to pharmaceutical companies for drug development, Venomtech is partnering with Charles River Laboratories, International Inc., the same company that Tony Fauci sent hundreds of thousands of dollars to for the creation of transgender monkeys.

In an announcement dated April 12, Venomtech revealed that snake venom-derived peptides are, in fact, real, and are being used to develop novel pharmaceutical therapeutic drugs.

“Millions of years of evolution have made venom-derived peptides highly specific, even for many of the hardest-to-hit drug targets,” the company wrote.

“Venomtech’s Targeted-Venom Discovery Array™ (T-VDA™) libraries provide researchers with a straightforward solution to rapidly screen thousands of individual venom fragments, with each array specifically designed to maximize hits for a specific target.”

Based in the United Kingdom, Venomtech maintains the world’s largest library of naturally sourced venom-derived compounds. Many of these compounds come from snakes, while others come from different species, including both vertebrates and invertebrates.

“Use of our platform increases the likelihood of finding unique and high-value candidates for even the most hard-to-hit drug and pesticide targets, or novel active ingredients for cosmetic applications,” the company says about its products.

Bioweapons containing venom are unleashed, and drugs containing anti-venom are released as a “cure”

If you were able to catch it recently, Dr. Bryan Ardis spoke with Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, about how the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) may also contain components of snake venom.

In the first part of the three-part series – all three parts are available at the Health Ranger Report Brighteon channel – Dr. Ardis explained how before the establishment was blaming bats for covid, it was blaming snakes.

So, in addition to drug companies using venom to develop drug treatments, there is evidence being uncovered to suggest that snake venom-like peptides may also be present in bioweapons as well.

It would appear to be the case that the system is playing both sides of every disease outbreak, epidemic, or pandemic. First, someone creates a disease in a lab using snake venom; then they develop a “cure” for it using more snake venom peptides.

A more accurate way to say this is that the bioweapons are the venom, and the drug “cures” are the anti-venom. Right now, we are learning a whole lot about both the anti-venom drugs, which few people knew existed, and the venom bioweapons they supposedly target.

Both are unleashed by the same people, presumably, as part of an elaborate, profit-generating scam. Using the Fauci Flu plandemic as an example, it appears as though some form of venom peptides were introduced through gain-of-function engineering of the covid bioweapon, followed by anti-venom remedies such as monoclonal antibodies.

Whether or not the “vaccines” also qualify as an anti-venom is still unknown. If “fully vaccinated” people are getting sick and dying from things like heart attacks, then perhaps the jabs are the decoy “cure?”

More is sure to unravel in the coming days, so stay tuned. This bombshell is not going away any time soon, and will probably get even bigger as more details continue to get revealed.

“Well, of course, it’s snake venom: Satan – serpent,” wrote someone at Brighteon. “It’s all a perfect fit! All explained in the Bible.”

“This is a crazy thought: they’re injecting everyone with snake venom,” wrote another. “Of all the creatures possible, it’s SNAKE VENOM.”

“I can’t help thinking about David Ickes’ rants since the early 90s about the shapeshifting reptiles behind the scenes of the New World Order. Are the ‘snake people’ literally injecting their toxic venom into the human race to begin a feeding frenzy? What does snake venom do? It begins to break down tissues for pre-digestion before the snake swallows the victim whole.”

More related news coverage can be found at Pandemic.news.

Sources include:

News-Medical.net

NaturalNews.com

DOCTORS don’t even know! MILLIONS of people are swallowing VENOM-derived pharmaceuticals made from pit vipers, Gila monsters, leeches, rattlesnakes Thursday, April 14, 2022 by: Mike Adams

(Natural News) Millions of Americans (and many more around the world) are swallowing pharmaceuticals made from venom peptides that come from pit vipers, rattlesnakes, toxic cone snails, leeches, Gila monster lizards and more. Drugs in development have been made from creatures like the Deathstalker scorpion or even vampire bats.

This realization is just hitting the consciousness of humanity and spreading like wildfire, initiated by Dr. Bryan Ardis and his controversial claim that covid-19 vaccines and treatments may be deliberately exposing people to venom-like peptides, whose toxic effects seem to strongly align with “vaccine” side effects and covid-19 treatment deaths.

Regardless of what people think about Ardis’ claims, his courage to step forward has set off a wave of journalistic research (in the indy media, anyway) about reptile venoms used in pharmaceuticals.

We’ve even published a full infographic listing all the known pharmaceuticals made from venom (see below).

Venomtech and ToxinTech

Our own research has turned up two companies that are heavily involved in venom research for pharmaceutical companies:

Venomtech (UK)

ToxinTech (USA)

Both of these companies have catalogued massive libraries of venoms from thousands of different animal species, and they license these venom libraries to drug companies for use in drug discovery. The goal is to turn these into high-profit prescription medications that people swallow in order to mask symptoms of disease.

The Venomtech company has now been linked to Anthony Fauci’s “secret island” of inhumane medical experiments on monkeys and beagles via Charles River Laboratories, a pharmaceutical company that leased the island and runs it in the United States. See this breaking story for details: “Snake venom company Venomtech announces partnership with Charles River Laboratories, which ran Fauci’s “secret island” of medical experiments on monkeys and beagles.”

This means that Venomtech is licensing its venom peptides library to the same pharmaceutical company that helped run the facilities in which Fauci’s evil “scientists” conducted cruel, inhuman medical experiments on monkeys and beagles. Fauci also ran cruel medical experiments on minority children in New York, as documented in RFK Jr’s book, “The Real Anthony Fauci.”

It begs the question: Does Venomtech has any limits on who it will license its technology to? Would Venomtech license its library to a modern-day rendition of Dr. Josef Mengele? We are reaching out to Venomtech to ask this very question and will bring you their answer if they reply. In summary, does Venomtech support its customers using its venom peptides library to conduct cruel and inhumane medical experiments?

ToxinTech specializes in animal toxins for pharmaceutical development

The ToxinTech company, located in the United States, specializes in providing venom-based toxins / peptides for pharmaceutical research. From their home page:

Designer Toxins are produced by a proprietary technology platform which generate thousands to millions of novel combinatorial variants of evolution-tested, target-biased animal toxins and a screening platform to isolate those hits that are active on the pharmaceutical targets of interest in their native cellular milieu or in a purified form. Designer Toxins can be employed to identify new hits or leads for drug development…

Today, animal venom toxins are the source of a number of major medications, including first-in-class agents, with indications for a diverse range of diseases from cardiovascular disorders to metabolic and to chronic pain. Additionally venom toxins are the source of a number of diagnostic and drug-cosmetic agents.

The ToxinTech company even seems to celebrate the fact that animal venoms can “kill prey in seconds” and can “target vital receptors key to neuromuscular, cardiovascular, hemostatic and other life functions.”

The company also states that their venoms are “chemically stable” which means, of course, they don’t simply break down in water. Some scientifically illiterate influencers in the alt media have absurdly claimed that snake venom peptides would be destroyed in water. As usual, they have no clue what they are talking about.

From the ToxinTech.com home page:

The ToxinTech home page offers this example of how a specific toxin known as Mokatoxin-1 is derived from scorpions and acts as a potassium channel inhibitor (which is how it poisons and kills prey):

Millions of people are swallowing VENOM while being told by their doctors that it’s “medicine”

ToxinTech was founded by molecular biologist Zoltan Takacs, who holds a PhD in pharmacology (with additional research at Yale University) and is a recipient of the Columbia Earth Institute Fellowship and National Geographic Society’s Emerging Explorer awards.

For the record, we are not ascribing any nefarious intent to Zoltan Takacs or ToxinTech. No doubt Takacs is a brilliant researcher, and he has built a rather impressive venom modeling system known as “Designer Toxins.”

The reason we mention all this is to merely point out that animal venoms and toxins are routinely used in drug development by pharmaceutical companies. The result is that millions of people are swallowing reptile venoms every day in America alone. In our view, these venoms mask symptoms of disease and allow drug companies to earn enormous profits while masking symptoms and avoiding the underlying causes of disease.

For example, you can “treat” high blood pressure by slowly poisoning the heart with venom, causing blood pressure to fall and eliminating the symptom of “high blood pressure,” but this does not resolve the underlying issues of why a person has high blood pressure in the first place: Obesity, dietary habits, lack of physical fitness, consumption of processed junk foods, etc. In this way, venom-based pharmaceuticals may create the false impression that a disease condition is being “treated” when it’s actually just being covered up. Yet this is the primary modus operandi of Big Pharma — masking symptoms for profit rather than empowering patients with solutions to resolve the underlying causes. (How many doctors tell their cancer patients to consume vitamin D? Almost zero…)

Nevertheless, we welcome a response from ToxinTech and would even welcome an interview with Zoltan Takacs if he wishes to explain the applications of his toxin library and respond to any questions about the use of animal venoms in pharmaceuticals. ToxinTech should note that we are high-IQ science-minded journalists, not the usual dumbed-down, scientifically-illiterate morons who populate the mainstream media. And we are open to explanations of truly therapeutic use of novel molecules, such as in treatments for chronic pain.

The list of pharmaceuticals derived from animal venom

ToxinTech provides a table of pharmaceuticals derived from animal venom. We have recreated the chart below, citing ToxinTech as the intermediary source, and also citing the original source which is: Takacs & Nathan (2014) Animal Venoms in Medicine. In: Encyclopedia of Toxicology, 3rd ed, Vol 1. Elsevier, Academic Press, 52.

This table shows how Big Pharma’s drugs are derived from scorpions, Gila monsters, rattlesnakes, leeches, cone snails, pit vipers and other venom-producing animals: (feel free to share this infographic in your own stories or social media accounts)

See higher-res image here.

Prialt drug, made from the Magical Cone Snail, warns about hallucinations, confusion, suicide and altered states of consciousness (but makes no mention of cone snail venom origins)

One drug derived from venom is called Prialt, made by TerSera therapeutics. You can see the drug’s marketing materials at www.Prialt.com

There, the drug makes no mention of its venom origins. There’s nothing about the Magical Cone Snail or venom origins.

As required by drug regulators, however, the Prialt drug does reveal a shocking list of symptoms, including hallucinations (which must be what makes the cone snail “magical”):

PRIALT may cause serious side effects including psychiatric (mental) symptoms and problems thinking (confusion, memory problems, speech difficulties). The doctor should be called immediately if, while taking PRIALT, you:

– are confused or disoriented
– are less alert
– see or hear things that are not real (hallucinations)
– have changes in mood or consciousness

Your doctor may stop your treatment with PRIALT, give you other medicines, or require you to be hospitalized if you experience any of these symptoms.

An intelligent person might think that if someone is “seeing or hearing things that are not real,” they must be watching CNN’s coverage of Ukraine. But this can also be caused by Prialt, which warns that certain people should never take Prialt, including anyone who has, “a mental illness called psychosis (a loss of contact with reality, usually including delusions (false beliefs about what is taking place or who one is) or hallucinations (seeing or hearing things that aren’t real).”

That would likely include all Democrats who think inflation is caused by Putin rather than the US Treasury’s money printing, but that’s a different story.

“The most common side effects of PRIALT include dizziness, nausea, confusion and uncontrolled eye movements,” adds the Prialt website. You can read the full insert sheet of the drug — containing truly shocking details — at this PDF document from the Tersera.com website.

In truth, the reason all these side effects are so severe is because Prialt is made from the neurotoxic venom of the Magical Cone Snail. If doctors (or patients) were aware of the drug’s origins, they might think twice about using it, or they might have a better clue about where the neurological side effects are coming from.

Clueless doctors blindly prescribe venom to patients, oblivious to where it comes from

The thing is, doctors have no idea they are prescribing venom to patients when they’re writing out medication prescriptions. That’s because most doctors are shockingly isolated from the actual origins of the drugs they are pushing, so they may be directing their patients to take rattlesnake venom (or other toxins), having no idea whatsoever that they are actually dishing out reptilian venom peptides relabeled as FDA-approved medications.

Is it any surprise that the American Medical Association’s logo features a reptilian serpent encircling a staff of power? (Understand your symbols, folks. They are telling you everything right to your face…)

In today’s Situation Update podcast, I discuss this list in great detail and even perform a short rendition of “The Elements Song,” replacing elements with the names of venoms (activating full GEEK GOD mode).

Hear the full podcast here:

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The World’s Busiest Shipping Port is Closed

Shanghai went under a full lockdown at the end of March under China’s zero-COVID tolerance policy. When cases allegedly rose, China extended the lockdown indefinitely. Shanghai hosts the busiest container port in the world, and its inability to operate is contributing to the supply chain crisis in a profound way. A member of the EU Chamber of Commerce’s Shanghai Chapter estimated that volume was down by 40% during the first week that the ports were prohibited from operating. There is no set date for when the port will resume operation.

It is estimated that the lockdown currently imposed has imprisoned an alarming 25 million Chinese citizens in their homes, but the implications of shutting down the world’s largest shipping port amidst a supply crisis will send aftershocks throughout the global economy. To understand how crucial Shanghai’s port is to the global flow of goods, the Port of Shanghai hosts over quadruple the volume of the Port of Los Angeles (one of America’s largest shipping ports).

Those in the industry warned that this would cause problems. One of the largest international container companies, Maersk, said that Shanghai’s shutdown would cause a 30% rise in trucking costs alone.

Some businesses are operating the “closed loop” system where employees are basically unable to leave their place of work. Still, the port cannot operate with the current restrictions as there are simply not enough available workers. This is completely unsustainable. China is throwing gas on the rapidly burning supply chain and inflation crises with their current policies that will be felt across the world.

UK COVID-19 Hospitalizations Skyrocket Among Heavily Vaccinated Population While Deaths on Upswing

While much of the UK’s population now desire to go about life as usual, especially since the government declared times were almost back to normal, unfortunately, the unfolding situation informs a starkly different reality for the heavily vaccinated population. While new SARS-CoV-2 cases seem to be headed toward a more stable reality, this may be only because mass testing is on the way out as SARS-CoV-2-associated deaths increase while hospitalizations have absolutely skyrocketed.

While the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) stops sharing breakthrough infection data, some critical media and blogs (deemed anti-vaxxed by the mass media) emphasize that more vaccinated people get infected and hospitalized than the unvaxxed.

Nearly 60% of the UK’s population has received a third booster dose with almost 75% of the population (and nearly all adults) fully vaccinated. Yet hospitalization cases are skyrocketing. 

An unmistakable growth in hospitalization raises concern across the UK as hospitalization rates have been on a steady climb since even before the onset of 2022.

UK COVID-19 Hospitalization by Quarter

Source: Our World in Data

What about COVID-19-related deaths? These are on the upswing as well. 

Source: Our World in Data

Even though Omicron is generally milder, the mutant sub-variant BA.2 now circulates ever more around the UK. A noticeable uptick in deaths has health authorities concerned. 

Public Health Communication Concerns

With mounting hospitalizations and a spiking death toll associated with COVID, the National Health Service (NHS) starts to experience capacity challenges. In fact, the NHS Confederation warned the government that it needed to reconsider the Living with COVID plan, suggesting the ministers risk “abandoning” the NHS if no action is taken.  

Representing health care organizations, the NHS Confederation reports that the government’s messaging that all is back to normal could very much “Mislead the public and discourage them to take steps to reduce transmission, contributing to the very high rates of COVID-19” as reported by the interest group

The organization’s chief executive Matthew Taylor went on the record, “NHS leaders and their teams recognise the need to ‘live with Covid’ as we move towards what the government hopes will become an endemic stage of the pandemic. However, they report a clear disconnect between the Government’s ‘Living with Covid’ plan and the realities they are facing at the NHS front line.”

New Hampshire Seeks to Combine Ivermectin Legislation

New Hampshire advanced, and then the state house of representatives passed legislation allowing pharmacists to dispense the “controversial” medication ivermectin for treatment of Covid-19 under a standing order. “A standing order is a prescriptive protocol written by a physician or nurse practitioner that allows a pharmacist to dispense a medication without an individual prescription,” said state Rep. Leah Cushman, R-Weare. House Bill 1022 allows pharmacists to dispense ivermectin without a prescription. But another piece of legislation, House Bill 1466, which went through the house on a voice vote, keeps the prescription decisions with doctors giving physicians more authority to prescribe “off label” drugs specifically for diseases the drugs are approved to treat.

Legislation Looking for Compromise in NH Senate

The bills have reached the New Hampshire State Senate, and politicians are looking to combine the two pieces of legislation. The bills are still in the senate committee. However, the chairperson asked one of the sponsors of the bill allowing pharmacists to dispense medication if the alternative legislation of seeking a doctor’s prescription is acceptable, and the sponsor said “yes.” 

Kansas Bill Waiting for Governor’s Signature

A similar bill has passed through the Kansas state legislature and is now awaiting the governor’s signature. The Kansas bill allows doctors to prescribe ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine without fear of reprisals from the state health board. The legislation is now on the desk of the governor of Kansas. 

More States Moving Forward with Similar Bills

In mostly conservative-led Republican states like IndianaSouth Carolina, and Colorado, bills allowing ivermectin to be dispensed are moving forward. In many instances, state attorneys general have written letters of support for the legislation. A complete list of states where legislation is being considered or passed is available here