The cannabis industry was built on the backs of people who took the risk before it was legal — and on the organizations still fighting for patient access, safe products, and the release of those harmed by the drug war. We don’t forget that.
Our giving lines up around the three things we think matter most for the future of cannabis: the policy fights that make legal access possible, the patients who depend on safe and tested products, and the people still paying for a war that’s effectively ending around them.
Working through Virginia’s legislature to end criminal penalties for adult cannabis use and expand patient access.
What we support: Annual conference table sponsorship and ongoing program support. Virginia is the first Southern state to legalize adult-use cannabis, and Virginia NORML’s advocacy was central to that — and to the work that’s still unfinished, including the legal retail market and automatic expungement.
The nation’s largest medical cannabis patient advocacy organization, working at every level of government to ensure safe and legal therapeutic access.
What we support: Monthly giving since 2024, attendance at the National Unity Conference, and direct sponsorship of ASA’s 2022 State of the States report and Patient and Consumer Guide. ASA’s Patient-Focused Certification work is part of why “safe and tested” is becoming the standard, not the exception.
No one should remain incarcerated for a cannabis offense in a world where cannabis is legal. Working through release, record clearing, and reentry.
What we support: Direct giving to LPP since 2020. Their work has helped clear 250,000+ cannabis records, undone 400+ years of incarceration, and put $3.8M directly into the hands of people impacted by the drug war. If anyone is going to profit in legal cannabis, that profit owes a debt to the people still paying for it.
Some of what we’re proudest of doesn’t show up on a donation receipt. These are three moments where Farmer Freeman put product, time, or bodies on the line alongside the people doing the work.
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Alongside DCMJ, we joined the public protest outside the Russian embassy calling for the release of WNBA star Brittney Griner, detained on cannabis charges. The action drew national press — and made the point that no one, anywhere, should be locked up over cannabis.
With DCMJ, we helped put cannabis seeds in the hands of members of Congress at the Rayburn House Office Building — a literal handover of the conversation about legalization to the people writing the laws.
When MDMJ helped legalize home cultivation in Maryland, we donated more than 500 free test kits to support their seed giveaway — making sure new home growers had what they needed to know exactly what they were planting.
Farmer Freeman exists because two scrappy DC-area organizations did the unglamorous, multi-year work of pushing cannabis from criminalized to legal. They’re less active today than they were in their peak years — but the space they made is the one we operate in.
DCMJ was central to bringing legalization to Washington, DC last decade — the policy shift that, more than any other, opened the door for a company like Farmer Freeman to exist in this region. We’ve supported their advocacy since, including the Rayburn seed action and the Russian embassy protest for Brittney Griner.
MDMJ — DCMJ’s sister organization across the river — helped legalize home cultivation in Maryland, which directly enables the customers we serve. We donated 500+ free test kits to their seed giveaway celebrating that win, and we’ve shown up to planning meetings and community events alongside them.
For ways to support similar work, see our active partners above.
“Broader cannabis acceptance, patient access, safe products, and justice for those harmed by the drug war matter more than business interests alone.”