Welcome to MPP's Federal Action Center
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Getting started as an MPP e-Activist is easy:
- Please click on the links below to send letters to your member of Congress.
- After you've sent a letter, you will be prompted to become an MPP e-Activist, which you can do by creating a username and password. That will give you access to your own personal campaign action center, plus the ability to connect to other activists in your area.
Once you sign up at this online campaign headquarters for MPP e-Activists, you'll have access to your own personalized action center where you can find talking points, tips for lobbying Congress, and tools to help you reach out to friends and family. Your action center will track which actions you've completed (such as writing to Congress) and which actions you still need to take. When you sign up, you'll be automatically assigned to one of 10 medical marijuana patients' teams (based on where you live), and you'll be able to see how your team stacks up against the other nine teams, in terms of actions taken. You'll be awarded points every time you take action, and you can redeem these for prizes.
Action Center
The U.S. House of Representatives will vote on the Hinchey-Rohrabacher medical marijuana amendment this summer. The amendment, if passed, will end the federal government's raids on medical marijuana patients who use marijuana legally under state law. Please use this action iem to help grow support for this important legislation.
H.R. 5842 would end marijuana's classification as a Schedule I drug and allow doctors to prescribe it for medical use. Additionally, this bill would protect medical marijuana patients who use marijuana legally under state law from arrest and jail.
Support Barney Frank's Personal Use Act
Representative Frank's legislation would remove criminal penalties for possession of up to 100 grams of marijuana and the not-for-profit transfer of one ounce (28.3 grams) of marijuana.
DEA raids on patients, caregivers, and providers have been intensifying in several California counties and in Oregon. The raids have been mostly aimed at medical marijuana dispensaries operating legally under state and local laws. It’s time to stop the madness. Please use this site to urge your member of Congress to act against the DEA’s refusal to accept state and local medical marijuana regulation.
Since 2001, Congress has prohibited Washington, D.C. from changing the penalties associated with marijuana possession or use – thwarting the will of 70% of D.C. voters, who in 1998 passed a ballot initiative to provide safe and legal access to medical marijuana for seriously ill patients. Now opponents are attempting to make this ban on medical marijuana in D.C. permanent. Please use this site to urge Congress to oppose this undemocratic legislation.
In a highly politicized and hypocritical move, the Drug Enforcement Agency has attempted to bury Professor Lyle Craker’s application for a license to produce research-grade marijuana for FDA- and DEA-approved clinical studies of medical marijuana at the University of Massachusetts. Please use this site to contact your member of Congress and help us gather signatures for Rep. John Oliver and Rep. Dana Rohrabacher’s letter to the DEA.
Each year, more than 700,000 people are arrested for marijuana offenses, costing American taxpayers more than $7 billion annually. Despite this, marijuana is still easily available, both to adults and minors. Through a focused system of taxation and regulation, we can take money out of the pockets of drug dealers and more effectively limit youth access to marijuana. Shouldn’t we focus our country’s resources on important priorities instead of prosecuting a wasteful war on marijuana?
Join MPP’s ongoing campaign to fight funding for the White House drug czar's wasteful, misleading, and ineffective anti-marijuana campaigns. Urge Congress to cut funding for the Office of National Drug Control Policy.
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