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Established since the legalization of cannabis in 2017, Massachusetts Recreational Consumer Council, is a political organization in advocacy of people disproportionately harmed by the racially motivated War on Drugs. Black & Brown, women, and queer led - our workers move in solidarity for racial, healing, and transformative justice through an intersectional framework.

Since 2017 we have successfully advocated for:

Racial Justice: the first municipal based restitution fund from the War on Drugs in the entire state of Massachusetts, first municipal based double commission in entire state of Massachusetts tasked with developing two harm reports based on transatlantic slave trade and War on Drugs, and a reparations fund based on transatlantic slave trade.
Healing Justice: Successfully lobbied for state social equity program, cooperative licenses, micro business licenses, secret shopper program, tincture guidance, language in Massachusetts' social equity fund bill to include grants, loan forgiveness, and an increase for 25% set aside from cannabis tax revenue;
Reparative Justice: clean slate expungement state bill for people with records, municipal based decriminalize all drugs policy, and support state prison moratorium bill. We have taught over 50 educational workshops including Grow to Consume, cooperatives/solidarity economy, cannabis license and regulations for Black and Brown entrepreneurs, Know Your Rights Cannabis edition, expungement clinics with partnership with National Expungement Work as regional coordinator for expungement clinics in Massachusetts since 2018, and more!

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MRCC is a people powered organization. All reoccurring donors have a voice in our distribution of funds. We employ a participatory process with all members as part of our cooperative model for community engagement. As a member your funds support ongoing education, organizing and mobilizing including but not limited to:

Quarterly Solidarity Justice Fund meetings for donor participatory process
Learn how to 'Grow to Consume' through Black Indigenous landcare practices
Organize with fellow community builders in solidarity for racial, healing, transformative justice
Mobilize for call to actions including but not limited to political action, mutual aid, & volunteering

IS MY DONATION TAX-DEDUCTIBLE?

YES!

The Massachusetts Recreational Consumer Council is a 501(c)(4) social welfare organization.
Contributions to 501(c)(4) organizations generally are not deductible as charitable contributions for federal income tax purposes. However, they may be deductible as trade or business expenses, if ordinary and necessary in the conduct of the taxpayer’s business. Therefore, any contributions received could be considered as ordinary and necessary expenses in the taxpayer’s business (i.e. advertising, professional fees, R&D, etc.)
Although donations are not “charitable contributions”, they can still be business expenses reducing taxable income, which is essentially the same effect.