Medicinal Marijuana Activism

Whole Earth, Spring, 1999

Americans for Medical Rights

1250 6th Street, Suite 202, Santa Monica, CA 90401, gina-amr@lainet.com. Website under construction.

AMR works on legal medicinal marijuana issues at the state level. It helps qualify ballot initiatives, campaigns for their passage, and then works to see that they are implemented and that eligible patients are able to obtain and use marijuana safely.

Marijuana Policy Project

Marijuana Policy Project PO Box 77492, Capitol Hill, Washington, DC 20013, 202/462-5747, 202/232-0442, mpp@mpp.org, www.mpp.org.

MPP lobbies full-time for marijuana law reform at the federal level and assists groups at local and state levels. Medicinal marijuana is a major focus, including gathering endorsements for legal reform from medical associations, supporting legislation to allow states to determine their own policies, and lobbying the National Institute on Drug Abuse to make marijuana available for FDA-approved research.

The Lindesmith Center

The Lindesmith Center 400 west 59th Street, New York, NY 10019, 222/548-0695, fax 222/548-4677, tlcweb@sorosny.org, www.lindesmith.org.

A project of George Soros's Open Society Institute, TLC is a policy research institute seeking alternatives that minimize the adverse effects of both drug use and drug prohibition. Actions include serving as counsel in a California class-action suit to block federal punishment for medicinal use, analyzing and publicizing experiences of other countries, and maintaining extensive physical and online libraries for medical and legal research.