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MPP, is the largest marijuana policy reform organization in the U.S., works to remove criminal penalties for marijuana use, with an emphasis on protecting seriously ill medical patients from arrest and jail. MPP has 23,000 members, 32 staffers, and an annual budget of $6 million.

When MPP was founded in 1995, medical marijuana was illegal in every state and favorable legistion had not been introduced in Congress in a decade. Since then, the federal penalties for marijuana cultivation have been changed to provide for the early release of hundreds of prisoners; medical marijuana bills have been introduced in six consecutive Congresses, with the U.S. House debating and voting on our legislation five years in a row; medical marijuana is now legal in 12 states; and much more.

Our marijuana laws aren't working, They cost taxpayers billions of dollars a year, keep police from focusing on real crimes, and don't keep marijuana away from minors.

Nearly 800,000 Americans are arrested on marijuana charges each year--one arrest every 38 seconds. And 9 out of ten arrest are for possession, not distribution.

72% of American adults believe that marijuana users should not be jailed-- and a whopping 80% support legal access to medical marijuana for seriously ill patients.

MPP is leading the fight to replace marijuana prohibition with taxation and regulation. It's just common sense.

These are videos of Dr. John Morgan, author of Marijuana Myths, Marijuana Facts.

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"Your opinion counts, but not if you don't give it."-RICKJOHNSON

Even if you don't use Marijuana you still pay for it. The government uses more than $7.7 billion dollars annually of your tax dollars, so even if you never use it keep in mind you are still paying for it. Well who makes money off of it being illegal, could it be the government?