With more than 23,000 dues-paying members and more than 100,000 e-mail subscribers, the Marijuana Policy Project is the largest marijuana policy reform organization in the United States. Incorporated as a nonprofit organization in 1995, MPP works to minimize the harm associated with marijuana — both the consumption of marijuana and the laws that are intended to prohibit such use.

MPP believes that the greatest harm associated with marijuana is prison. To this end, MPP focuses on removing criminal penalties for marijuana use, with a particular emphasis on making marijuana medically available to seriously ill people who have the approval of their doctors.

MPP's Vision Statement

MPP envisions a country with public policies that:

1. allow for the responsible medical and non-medical use of marijuana, and
2. minimize the harms associated with marijuana consumption and the laws that manage its use.

MPP's Mission Statement

MPP pursues its work along two parallel tracks — making marijuana medically available to patients in need (known as "legalizing medical marijuana"), and taxing and regulating marijuana for general adult use (known as "marijuana regulation"). Specifically, MPP pursues the following mission (strategies) to achieve its vision:

1. Increase public support for marijuana regulation.
2. Identify and activate supporters of medical marijuana and marijuana regulation.
3. Change state laws to legalize medical marijuana and/or regulate marijuana.
4. Increase the credibility of marijuana policy reform on Capitol Hill.


MPP's supporters include:
TV host Montel Williams.
Former New Mexico governor Gary Johnson.
Former Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura.
Actors/Band Jack Black and Kyle Gass (Tenacious D/Band).
Actor/singer Michelle Phillips of The Mamas & the Papas.
Comedian Bill Maher.
Comedian Adam Carolla.
Author Tom Robbins.
Former White House Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles
Grateful Dead lyricist John Perry Barlow.
Former Surgeon General of the United States Joycelyn Elders.
Late Economist Milton Friedman
Mad Money host Jim Cramer