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.

In 2006 alone, there were 829,627 state and local marijuana-related arrests in the United States. (89% of these were for possession alone.) That's one marijuana arrest every 38 seconds. 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.


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, 36 staffers, and an annual budget of about $6 million.