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Focus police priorities on real crime, not marijuana users.
In 2007, more than 74,000 Californians were arrested on marijuana charges – 80% for simple possession, not sale or manufacture. During the same year, more than 66,000 violent crimes went unsolved.
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Fund vital state programs without raising taxes on families.
Marijuana is California’s top cash crop but this industry goes untaxed while Sacramento raises taxes on middle-class families and is making deep cuts to police, schools, and hospitals.
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Get the drug dealers out of our streets and schools.
Prohibition creates an unregulated, criminal market for marijuana where drug dealers routinely sell to kids. Regulating marijuana will take marijuana out of the hands of criminals and put it where it belongs: in a well regulated, licensed market only available to adults.
Obama ends medical marijuana raids in 13 states
Huge news: The Obama administration announced that federal agents won't arrest medical marijuana patients or providers who comply with state law. Leverage this momentum and write to Congress for further reform today!