Florida CAN is all about Cannabis, all about Action and all about Networking – not all about money. We’ve always been more interested in changing the laws than profiting from prohibition! Each of us has a part to play, some can donate, but even if you donate there are other ways to help us change public perception. If you can’t donate it is even more important for you to discover what you can do and do it faithfully.
Here is a list we created of no-cost ways everyone can help change cannabis laws.
Online You Can:
Educate Yourself
Spend time researching this issue and preparing yourself to articulate the harms of prohibition and the benefits of this plant. This website is a great resource for education. Our expert leadership team is writing blog post regularly about the most important issues of our time.
Share our E-mails with your list!
When we send out an important action alert, make sure to forward it to your closest friends.
Take Action Online through our Click and Send system
Periodically, and more frequently as legislative session approaches, we will ask you to send e-mails to your representatives. Please watch your spam filter and approve us. We have a whole team of people who may be writing you, but they are all part of FLCAN’s leadership team.
We make it quick and easy for you to send a personalized letter to your lawmakers. We encourage you to edit the subject line and personalize the message to make it authentic. Here is a letter you can edit and send right now.
Like us on Facebook
Are you ready to be public with your support of cannabis reforms? If so, like us on Facebook or join our group. We have a Facebook Page and a closed Facebook Group.
Follow us on Twitter
When you follow us on Twitter you learn more about our work and can Retweet to your followers too. Find us @FLCANDoIt
We do Instagram, do you?
We are reviving our Instagram account with fresh and unique content not seen on any other platform. You can find FLCAN at: https://www.instagram.com/flcan/
A Good Writer Can:
Write an LTE (letter-to-the-editor)
An LTE can be in response to a recent article or a current event. LTE’s have real value. If we had to buy ad space in that publication the size of your letter, what would it cost. That is the value of your published LTE. Sharing your thought, correcting an inaccuracy and prolonging the conversation has value of its own. Here are some tips on writing letters-to-the-editor.
Write a personal letter to your representatives
E-mails are good, but a personal, well-written letter is a powerful tool. Here is a link to find your representative.
Help create new literature
Does writing a two-hundred word piece on cannabis and its effect on cancer, or a three-paragraph bio for a Florida patient come easy to you? If this is how you roll, we need you writing for us. Call our office to volunteer. 321-253-3673
A Good Speaker Can:
Attend an Event
Attend a cannabis meet-up, one of our training sessions, or become a Florida CAN Ambassador and speak as a cannabis expert at someone else’s event.
Meet with your lawmakers
A personal story, a local face – these are important to lawmakers who may not know someone who needs cannabis or uses it responsibly.
A Good Salesperson Can:
Book our speakers into civic clubs
Booking Florida CAN Ambassadors at local meetings helps spread the word. We need to overcome apathy and ignorance to move our issue.
Set up Editorial Meetings for Ambassadors
Editorial Boards for every newspaper in Florida will soon be making statements about the effort to create safe, cannabis policies. This meeting gives papers our side to the issue.
Staff an informational booth at festivals and events
Staffing a table or booth allows FLCAN to grow our list, get petitions signed, overcome objections and make cannabis reform a priority for visitors to the booth.
We all understand it takes money to keep the lights on, print materials and put gas in the car, but not everyone can spare even $5.00 right now. So many of the people who support cannabis reform are sick; disease and our health care system have taken anything they ever had or could hope to gain. Others have lost thousands through court costs, jails and forced treatment for cannabis possession. If giving is what you can do, please make a generous donation right now.
Help us, support team FLCAN!
