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Best way to get invloved?

Hi there,

I was just wondering what the best way to get involved is. I would like to start doing something to bring attention to the fact that marijuana should and needs to be legalized in Washington state. Are there groups, websites, etc?

taylorjayne333 asked in 420: The Straight Dope About Pot over 2 years ago | Report
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    The Cannabis Defense Coalition lists a number of advocacy groups on it's resources page. The dearth of activist opportunities for folks who are not medical marijuana patients or providers was one of the primary reasons our group coalesced.

    Basically, if you're not involved in medical pot, these are your activism options around here:

    * Seattle Hempfest throws the world's largest pot rally during August, and you can volunteer that week. If you apply and are accepted, you can join the "core group" which meets all year 'round to plan the event.

    * Sensible Washington is collecting signatures through the end of June to get on the November ballot. They need all the volunteer signature gatherers they can muster.

    * November Coalition is a national prison reform organization headquartered in Colville. Run by a handful of the most thoughtful activists in the drug policy reform movement, they can always use volunteers at their amazing office, housed in a former church and food coop.

    * Olympia Hempfest organizes an annual rally in Olympia.

    * Washington State NORML was recently re-organized by the NORML folks. Based in Spokane, the organization is in its nascent stages, and we expect good things from them.

    * ACLU of Washington runs a marijuana education project, which doesn't really have a strong volunteer component.

    * King County Bar Drug Policy Project is looking at the entirety of the War on Drugs, and is working on a written "exit strategy" to end it.

    * Cannabis Defense Coalition is a cooperative activist organization that has run dozens of projects in the last few years into which regular folks can "plug in." We track medical marijuana prosecutions throughout the state, run the Seattle Cannabis Resource Center (and its licensed cafe), petitioned to add neuropathic pain to our medical marijuana law, hired a lobbyist to pass SB 5798, place ads in local papers questioning overzealous prosecutors, started the medical marijuana reclamation project to force police agencies to give medical pot back, etc.

    cdc answered in 420: The Straight Dope About Pot over 2 years ago | Report
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    The ACLU of Washington has information on both our work on drug policy issues and how to get involved on all of our issues on our website www.ACLU-WA.org. We also host a website for our public education campaign, "Marijuana: It's Time for a Conversation," www.MarijuanaConversation.org. Both ACLU-WA and the Conversation campaign have Facebook pages, which provide both informational updates and notices of opportunities to take action.

    Alison Holcomb answered in 420: The Straight Dope About Pot over 2 years ago | Report
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    For the purposes of I-1068, the marijuana legalization initiative currently in the signature gathering phase, the best way get involved is to become a volunteer signature gatherer by filing out the form at: http://sensiblewashington.org/volunteer/

    Philip Dawdy answered in 420: The Straight Dope About Pot over 2 years ago | Report
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    Volunteer for organizations like Seattle Hempfest, http://www.hempfest.org and Sensible Washington which is trying to legalize cannabis in Washington right now, http://www.sensiblewashington.org/

    sharonw answered in 420: The Straight Dope About Pot over 2 years ago | Report
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