Campaigns

	MPP's CA Voter Education Project believes it's time to tax and regulate marijuana for adults. Watch our campaign PSA and share with others.

	MPP is building support for ending marijuana prohibition in California. Visit the Campaign Site

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

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

	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. Visit the Campaign Site

	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. Visit the Campaign Site

Past Campaigns

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

	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'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.

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