- Our common welfare should come first;
personal recovery depends upon M.A. unity.
- For our group purpose there is but one
ultimate authority, a loving God whose expression may come through
in our group conscience. Our leaders are but trusted servants;
they do not govern.
- The only requirement for membership is
a desire to stop using marijuana.
- Each group should be autonomous except
in matters affecting other groups or M.A. as a whole.
- Each group has but one primary purpose,
to carry its message to the marijuana addict who still suffers.
- M.A. groups ought never endorse, finance,
or lend the M.A. name to any related facility or outside enterprise,
lest problems of money, property, and prestige divert us from
our primary purpose.
- Every M.A. group ought to be fully self-supporting,
declining outside contributions.
- Marijuana Anonymous should remain forever
nonprofessional, but our service centers may employ special workers.
- M.A., as such, ought never be organized,
but we may create service boards or committees directly responsible
to those they serve.
- Marijuana Anonymous has no opinion on
outside issues; hence the M.A. name ought never be drawn into
public controversy.
- Our public relations policy is based upon
attraction rather than promotion; we need always maintain personal
anonymity at the level of press, radio, t.v., film, and other
public media. We need guard with special care the anonymity of
all fellow M.A. members.
- Anonymity is the spiritual foundation
of all our traditions, ever reminding us to place principles
before personalities.
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