Continuing the recent trend, marijuana arrests set another all-time record in 2007, totaling 872,720. This amounts to one marijuana arrest every 36 seconds.

MPP, 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 marijuana patients from arrest and jail.  Founded in 1995, MPP has 25,000 members, 180,000 e-mail subscribers, 40 staffers, and an annual budget of about $6 million.

The Marijuana Policy Project does not condone the illegal use of marijuana. However, marijuana prohibition has failed. For instance, when asked in a 2003 survey, "Which is easiest for someone your age to buy: cigarettes, beer, or marijuana?" 34% of teens said marijuana was the easiest to buy, followed by beer with 18%. MPP promotes the taxation and regulation of marijuana for adults, which would reduce the availability of marijuana to minors. Unlike drug dealers, licensed vendors would ensure that minors are unable to purchase marijuana, or risk losing their license.

MPP has more than 25,000 dues-paying members and more than 180,000 e-mail subscribers, with an annual budget of about $6 million.

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.

Continuing the recent trend, marijuana arrests set another all-time record in 2007, totaling 872,720. Arrests for marijuana possession totaled 775,138, greatly exceeding arrests for all violent crimes combined, which totaled 597,447.

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.

When MPP was founded in 1995, medical marijuana was illegal in every state and favorable legislation 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 13 states; and much more.

MPP is changing laws.  Will you help?  Please visit www.mpp.org to find out how you can get involved.

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