Campaigns

	MPP is lobbying to pass marijuana-related legislation in California, Delaware, Illinois, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont.

	MPP is leading the effort to convince members of Congress to support federal medical marijuana legislation.


	MPP's Arizona campaign committee, the Arizona Medical Marijuana Policy Project, is working to pass a medical marijuana ballot initiative in Arizona in November 2010.


	MPP is lobbying and building a coalition in support of ending marijuana prohibition in California.

	MPP and our local allies are lobbying the Massachusetts legislature to pass a medical marijuana law.

	MPP is lobbying in Minnesota to pass a medical marijuana law through the state legislature.


	MPP of Nevada is MPP's Nevada chapter, where we're committed to seeing the state tax and regulate marijuana like alcohol.


	MPP has pursued various legal complaints against the White House drug czar's office.

	MPP is working with actors, musicians, producers, directors, professional athletes, former and current public officials, and other VIPs to educate the American people about the need to take marijuana out of the criminal market and regulate it. Projects include a celebrity advisory board, music events, film festivals, and more.

	MPP is airing provocative radio ads on major stations around the country,educating Americans about the need to end marijuana prohibition.

	MPP fights against mandatory minimum sentences for marijuana crimes. Mandatory minimum sentences — which take sentencing power out of the hands of judges — have caused the number of drug offenders in federal prison to explode from 25% of the total inmate population in 1981 to 60% in 2001.

	Taxing and regulating marijuana would produce combined savings and tax revenues of between $10 billion and $14 billion per year, according to a report funded by the MPP grants program and endorsed by 500 distinguished economists, including Nobel Prize-winner Dr. Milton Friedman.

Past Campaigns

	MPP's Michigan Coalition for Compassionate Care successfully passed a ballot initiative in Michigan in November 2008, protecting medical marijuana patients from arrest and jail.
	MPP's campaign committee, the Committee for Sensible Marijuana Policy, passed a ballot initiative to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana in Massachusetts in November 2008.
	MPP pushed the presidential candidates to take strong, public, positive positions on medical marijuana during the 2008 presidential primary campaign in New Hampshire.

	MPP's Committee to Control and Regulate Marijuana won 44% of the vote for an initiative to end marijuana prohibition in Nevada in November 2006.

	Although this initiative to remove all penalties for marijuana use by adults aged 21 and older lost by 44% to 56%, it was the all-time biggest vote for ending marijuana prohibition in the history of the country.