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Oct 16, 2025
Wisconsin medical cannabis bill filed!
At long last, Wisconsin has an opportunity to join the 40 other states that allow medical cannabis! Senate President Mary Felzkowski (R) recently filed a medical cannabis bill, along with two Republican cosponsors. There’s a narrow window to get the bill done, and we need all hands on deck to make it happen!
If you live in Wisconsin, let your state rep and senator know it’s past time to allow patients to relieve their suffering with medical cannabis.
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Oct 15, 2025
Marijuana Policy Project Executive Director Pens Open Letter to the Cannabis Industry
Washington, D.C. — The Marijuana Policy Project (MPP), the nation’s leading cannabis policy organization, released an open letter to the cannabis industry today from Executive Director Adam J. Smith. Smith makes the case that robust independent advocacy is indispensable to industry's goals, and calls for a more strategic deployment of our collective political capital.
The letter explains that a vibrant and sustainable legal industry that includes rational regulation, reasonable taxation, and broad…
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Alice Huffman, grassroots leader and president of the California Hawaii NAACP
"We believe whatever potential harms may be associated with using marijuana are more than outweighed by the immediate harms that derive from being caught up in the criminal justice system. Once a young person is arrested and brought under the justice system, he or she is more likely to get caught in the criminal justice system again.... It is time to end the failed war on drugs by decriminalizing and regulating marijuana to save our communities."
Rick Steves, travel writer, author, activist, and television personality
"There are so many reasons to end the prohibition on marijuana. Whether you're concerned about the well-being of children, fairness for our minority communities, redirecting money away from criminals and into our state's coffers, stemming the horrific bloodshed in Mexico, or civil liberties, it is clearly time for a new approach."
Sebastian Marincolo, philosopher and author of "High: Insights on Marijuana"
"The legalization of marijuana is not a dangerous experiment—the prohibition is the experiment, and it has failed dramatically, with millions of victims all around the world."
Pat Robertson, chairman of the Christian Broadcasting Network
"I really believe we should treat marijuana the way we treat beverage alcohol. If people can go into a liquor store and buy a bottle of alcohol and drink it at home legally, then why do we say that the use of this other substance is somehow criminal?"
Carl Sagan, astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, and author
"The illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly mad and dangerous world."
Illinois State Senator Heather Steans
"MPP is the most effective and influential cannabis policy driver in the U.S."
Michelle Alexander, professor, civil rights advocate, legal scholar, and author of "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness"
"What is most fascinating about the marijuana legalization debate is how long it has taken us to get to this point. The potential harm associated with smoking marijuana pales in comparison with the harm suffered by the millions who have been arrested, jailed and branded criminals simply because they were caught with the drug."
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee
"Our state's efforts to regulate the sale of marijuana are succeeding. A few years ago, the illegal trafficking of marijuana lined the pockets of criminals everywhere. Now, in our state, illegal trafficking activity is being displaced by a closely regulated marijuana industry that pays hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes."