{"id":244122,"date":"2025-10-20T14:14:04","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T21:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marijuana-anonymous.org\/?p=244122"},"modified":"2025-10-21T10:51:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T17:51:07","slug":"12-traditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marijuana-anonymous.org\/reading\/12-traditions\/","title":{"rendered":"The Twelve Traditions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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  1. Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon M.A.  unity. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. 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. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop using marijuana. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting other groups or  M.A. as a whole. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Each group has but one primary purpose, to carry its message to the marijuana addict who still suffers. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. 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. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  7. Every M.A. group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside  contributions.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  8. Marijuana Anonymous should remain forever nonprofessional, but our service centers may employ special workers. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  9. M.A., as such, ought never be organized, but we may create service boards or  committees directly responsible to those they serve. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  10. Marijuana Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the M.A. name ought never be drawn into public controversy. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  11. Our public relations policy is based upon attraction rather than promotion; we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio, TV, film,  and other public media. We need guard with special care the anonymity of all fellow M.A. members. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  12. Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
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    Reprinted from Life with Hope, Third Edition, page 195, with permission of MA World Services.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n