Fundraising Appeal

2010 was huge.  2011 will be even bigger...

Thanks to your support SAFER was able to accomplish quite a bit this past year.  Here are just a few of the highlights:

• We started the Women's Marijuana Movement, whose launch and educational activities -- as well as its actions to support California's Prop. 19 -- put women front and center in the public debate surrounding marijuana.

• We expanded the SAFER Campuses Initiative, helping students carry out actions on 80+ college campuses and work to bring about actual policy changes at schools where students have adopted SAFER referendums.

• We continued to build momentum and support for marijuana reform in Colorado, setting the stage for an unprecedented campaign to legalize marijuana statewide in 2012.

With your help we can do even more in the new year.  A generous supporter has offered to match any donations we receive this week, so if you can help SAFER with a tax-deductible end-of-year donation, whatever you give will be DOUBLED!  Just click the button below or visit http://www.SAFERchoice.org/donate and lend us twice the support heading into 2011.

The coming year promises to be our busiest and most important since we got started in 2005.  And with your continued support we can ramp up all of the above projects and have a huge impact on the direction and success of the marijuana reform movement.

Whether it's a one-time donation or a monthly pledge, your contribution will lend tremendously to our work in 2011. Just click on the button above or visit http://www.SAFERchoice.org/donate to make a contribution and have it doubled today.  And if you give $25 or more we will send you your choice of SAFER T-shirt or a copy of Marijuana is Safer: So why are we driving people to drink?

Thank you again for being a part of the SAFER movement and making our work possible.  And from all of us at SAFER, we wish you a safe and happy new year.

Make a tax-deductible donation to help SSDP continue our important work.

Dear friends :

We have a very special offer to extend to our most committed supporters: we have 25 tickets to the Marijuana Policy Project's Winter Ball at The Mission that are 25% off the regular ticket price. Time is running out to buy your tickets, so take action today and join us at this magical event on Saturday, December 11th! 

Last year's Mission event was extraordinary, but we're topping it with this year's The Mission: Winter Ball. We'll be celebrating the dramatic, MPP-backed passage of medical marijuana in Arizona as well as discussing plans to pass a tax and regulate initiative in California in 2012. Be sure to get your tickets today!

While the cause, the company, and the locale are enough to make this an evening to remember, we're really going all out with fabulous cuisine, exotic cocktails, and stupendous entertainment! All of this, taking place at the exquisite Hacienda Del Pinto, a 13,000 square foot Mexican-styled villa in Sonoma's Valley of the Moon.

We expect tickets to sell out quickly, so purchase yours today!

This is your chance to rub elbows with some of the most influential and popular figures in the marijuana policy reform movement while enjoying a night of food, drink, and entertainment. And just in case all that's not enough: creative attire is encouraged.

Finally, MPP wishes to thank its partners, who made this event possible: Altitude Organic Corporation, Zephyr Vaporizers, SPARC, Weed Maps, and Vapor Room.

Please, join us for The Mission: Winter Ball and prepare to experience an event that will be both memorable for you and beneficial to MPP's continually successful efforts to end marijuana prohibition.

Sincerely,

To contact MPP, please click here. Our mailing address is Marijuana Policy Project, 236 Massachusetts Ave. NE, Suite 400, Washington, D.C. 20002. Any donations you make to MPP may be used for political purposes, such as supporting or opposing candidates for federal office.

Dear friends:

Hello, my name is Kathy Reynolds and marijuana saved my life.

When I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1991, I knew that I was facing a challenge, but I had no idea what I was in for. My treatment left me feeling sick, weak, and unable to eat for three months. My weight was down and my health was faltering.

I tried every medication available to me, but nothing my doctor prescribed helped — some even made things worse. With all other options exhausted, my doctor told me that marijuana might be able to help. So, I used marijuana for the first time and it saved my life.  The near-instant relief from the nausea allowed me to start eating again, regain my health, and beat my cancer.

That was nearly 20 years ago. But today I face a new battle.  I now have a painful degenerative bone disease as a result of bone marrow transplants received during my cancer treatment. I know my condition could be improved by medical marijuana, but I am left with the terrible choice of living with pain or living as a criminal.

That's why I'm asking you to please support the Marijuana Policy Project's "26 by 2012" campaign.  MPP wants to remove the federal government's prohibition on medical marijuana, which basically requires 26 states to have laws making medical marijuana legal.

To achieve this goal, MPP plans to run a number of difficult medical marijuana ballot initiatives in 2012, beginning with Arkansas right now.  Signature drives are expensive, though, costing approximately $180,000 in the case of Arkansas, and MPP can't begin the 18-month-long process until they've reached $10,000 in new monthly donations.  Please, consider making a $10 monthly donation today.

MPP's "26 by 2012" campaign needs your support.  Reaching 26 medical marijuana states by 2012 will help ensure that patients like me can have safe, legal access to the medicine our doctors recommend.

Please support MPP with a monthly donation today.  I don't want to be a criminal. I just want to live a normal life.

Sincerely,



Kathy Reynolds
Bella Vista, Arkansas

Help us meet our mission

Raised in ’10:$2,765,220
Goal in ’10: $3,400,000

MPP will be able to tackle all of the projects in our 2010 strategic plan if you help us meet this challenge.

To contact MPP, please click here. Our mailing address is Marijuana Policy Project, 236 Massachusetts Ave. NE, Suite 400, Washington, D.C. 20002. Any donations you make to MPP may be used for political purposes, such as supporting or opposing candidates for federal office.

Dear friends,

To have a shot at removing the federal government's prohibition on medical marijuana, we need at least 26 states to legalize medical marijuana. This will give us a clear path to victory in Congress and/or the federal courts.

As of today, medical marijuana is legal in 14 states and the District of Columbia.

To get to 26 states, we need to run ballot initiatives in some tough states in November 2012 – Arkansas, Idaho, Missouri, North Dakota, and South Dakota. And to get on these five ballots in November 2012, we need to start the signature drives soon, with the first being in Arkansas.

Please help MPP succeed with a new experiment: I want to see if we can fund the entire signature drive in Arkansas through monthly credit card donations from you and others on this e-mail list. Please start donating $10 or more on your credit card today.

As soon as we get up to $10,000 in monthly donations, we'll start funding the signature drive in Arkansas. Public opinion polling shows that 58% of Arkansans would vote for a medical marijuana initiative there, so the key is to put such a question on the ballot for them to approve.

Assuming a typical validity rate of 60% for signatures collected, we'll need to collect 110,000 gross signatures in order to end up with the required 65,000 valid signatures. It costs about $1.50 to collect and verify each signature, so here's the cost of the campaign:

The signature drive will take about 18 months to complete, so as soon as you and other allies begin monthly credit card donations totaling $10,000, we'll start the signature drive, and then you can sit back and watch us win in Arkansas, and hopefully other states, too.

In a couple weeks, I'll update you on how much money we're receiving in new monthly donations for the Arkansas campaign.

Please help me show that this experiment can work — that fewer than 1,000 people across the entire country can join together to help the first state in the deep south to legalize medical marijuana. We need to do this if we want to get to 26 states.

Please donate $10 or more on your credit card today so that we can start the signature drive in Arkansas.Thank you.

Sincerely,

Rob Kampia
Executive Director
Marijuana Policy Project
Washington, D.C.

Help us meet our mission

Raised in ’10:$2,721,628
Goal in ’10: $3,400,000

MPP will be able to tackle all of the projects in our 2010 strategic plan if you help us meet this challenge.

To contact MPP, please click here or reply to this e-mail. Our mailing address is Marijuana Policy Project, 236 Massachusetts Ave. NE, Suite 400, Washington, D.C. 20002. Any donations you make to MPP may be used for political purposes, such as supporting or opposing candidates for federal office.