Meeting Script

Meeting Script 

Super Helpful access to a lot of the literature and meeting materials: 

https://ma-phone.org/meeting-readings

https://marijuana-anonymous.org/library/readings/

(In light of Zoom intrusions, please see: https://marijuana-anonymous.org/wp-content/uploads/Keeping-our-Meetings-Safe-from-Zoom-Bombers.pdf )

HOST CODE 808983

Chair Person reads aloud to the Group:

Welcome to One Share At a Time, our open meeting of Marijuana Anonymous.

My name is _____ and I’m a marijuana addict.

Can we please have a moment of silence for those still suffering inside and outside of these rooms?

(Silence)

(Invite members of the meeting to unmute and join you, as you say:)

Serenity Prayer: (Higher power of your understanding) grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference

Chair Person reads The Preamble:

Marijuana Anonymous is a fellowship of people who share our experience, strength, and hope with each other that we may solve our common problem and help others to recover from marijuana addiction.

The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop using marijuana. There are no dues or fees for membership. We are self-supporting through our own contributions. MA is not affiliated with any religious or secular institution or organization and has no opinion on any outside controversies or causes. Our primary purpose is to stay free of marijuana and to help the marijuana addict who still suffers achieve the same freedom. We can do this by practicing our suggested Twelve Steps of recovery and by being guided as a group by our Twelve Traditions. 

The tradition of the month is _____ (see below. For example in January, we read Tradition 1, February, Tradition 2 etc.... (During the first week of a month, please read all 12 traditions).

The Chair Person reads either all or the Tradition of the month, depending on what meeting it is.

The Traditions

1. Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon MA unity.

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.

3. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop using marijuana.

4. Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting other groups or MA as a whole.

5. Each group has but one primary purpose, to carry its message to the marijuana addict who still suffers.

6. MA groups ought never endorse, finance, or lend the MA name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property, and prestige 

divert us from our primary purpose.

7. Every MA group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions.

8. Marijuana Anonymous should remain forever nonprofessional, but our service centers may employ special workers.

9. MA, as such, ought never be organized, but we may create service boards or committees directly responsible to those they serve.

10. Marijuana Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the MA name ought never be drawn into public controversy.

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 MA members.

12. Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities.

The Chair Person continues reading Meeting Preamble asking about newcomers, day celebrations and business:

• Are there any newcomers who would like to introduce themselves?

(PAUSE)

• Is anybody celebrating a birthday today or since their last meeting? Or anybody COUNTING days?

(PAUSE)

• Are there any business-related announcements?  (PAUSE)  A Business Meeting is held after the LAST meeting of the month. If you would like to be of service, please attend. 

The Chair Person invites group members to give service by reading for the group. (If there is a Tech Host, the Tech Host screen shares the following linked readings, while the chair person calls on members volunteering.)

• Can somebody please read Who is a Marijuana Addict? 

• Can somebody read the Dangers of Cross Addiction?

Marijuana Anonymous uses the basic 12 Steps of Recovery founded by Alcoholics Anonymous, because it has been proven that the 12 Step Recovery program works!

• Can somebody please read How it Works or "The 12 Steps of MA"?

Chair Person announces what the group will be reading or hearing based on the format schedule below. If a Tech Host is on the meeting, the tech host would share the reading pages or audio recording with the group. Otherwise the Chair Person would do that.

Meeting FORMAT by WEEK

Week 1 - Step of the month 

Week 2 - Tradition of the month

Week 3 - Story / Speaker/ speaker tape (https://ma-phone.org/speaker-tapes ) max 20 minutes to allow time for sharing afterwards

Week 4 - Daily Reflection

Week 5 - Host's Choice (Literature etc..)

Chair Person transitions from the reading to the SHARING section of the meeting by reading the following

We are now ready for your shares. Who would like to be our spiritual time-keeper today? (Thank the person who volunteers and make them a co-host) It would be appreciated if the timekeeper could give a one-minute notification via screen share. 

Please keep your shares to 4 minutes (adjust depending on the number of people). When the time keeper notifies you that your time is up, please wrap up quickly. 

Please keep your microphone muted when not sharing. If a share has ended and nobody is up, you can also un-mute your microphone and start.

So everyone feels comfortable and safe while sharing, please remember this is a non-crosstalk meeting. Cross talk is defined as giving direct advice or addressing an individual directly. Cross talk can also include interrupting the person who is speaking or asking them a question unexpectedly. Feel free to ask questions and talk to each other after the meeting, but, during the meeting, please stick to your experience, strength and hope in recovery. As we learn from each other, let’s be mindful of each other.

Who would like to share first? (If group members raise their virtual hands, that list will be in ascending order in the Participants box - giving special favor to any member who is co-hosting the meeting.)

Chair Person ends sharing at 5 minutes before the hour meeting time is complete.

Are there any burning desires or anybody who wants to say hello to feel a part of the meeting today?

LINK to WHATSAPP (Please copy what is typed below to the chat, so members can join the WhatsApp Group)

To join fellows in WhatsApp follow this link: https://chat.whatsapp.com/KOrNfdrqH7G7jcTPhlgqKf

7TH TRADITION (Please read and copy &paste the following in the chat box during the meeting)

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7th TRADITION 

http://paypal.me/madistrict27

PayPal: @madistrict27

While this meeting has no dues or fees, we are proudly self-supporting through our own contributions.

Please enter “One Share At A Time Saturday or Tuesday” - the group name - in the COMMENTS box when making a 7th tradition donation to District 27 (link above).

Due to transaction fees, fewer donations of larger amounts are more cost effective. Please consider including the transaction fee with your donation.

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To close the meeting would somebody volunteer to read Promises  A.A. Promises or Our Awakening? (Relapse promises are at the bottom of this screen) 

The Chair Person closes the meeting formally by reading the following:

In closing, we would like to say that the opinions expressed here were strictly those of the person who gave them. Take what you liked and leave the rest.

The things you heard were spoken in confidence and should be treated as confidential. Keep them within the walls of this room and the confines of your mind.

Talk to each other, reason things out with someone else, but let there be no gossip or criticism of one another. Instead, let the understanding, love and peace of the program grow in you one day at a time.

Please unmute and join me for the We version of the Serenity Prayer to close our meeting.

Higher power, 

grant us the serenity to accept the things we cannot change, 

courage to change the things we can 

and wisdom to know the difference.

Keep coming back! 

It works, if you work it. 

So, work it. 

You are worth it!

Live it, 

love it 

and love yourself! 

***The promises of relapse (modified from the AA promises)***

The relapse promises

If we dive head-long into a relapse, we will be amazed before we are halfway through. 

We are going to know a new pain and fresh misery. 

We will regret our actions and feel as though we have lost control. 

We will comprehend the words addiction & insanity and we will know self-loathing. 

No matter how far down the scale we have gone, we will see that we can still sink further and experience more pain. 

That feeling of uselessness and self-pity will re-appear. 

We will lose interest in our fellows and gain interest in selfish things. 

Self-seeking will be our way of life. 

Our whole attitude and outlook upon life will change.

Fear of people and of economic insecurity will return. 

We will intuitively know how to sabotage our lives and the lives of those we care about. 

We will suddenly realize that we are doing for ourselves what even our enemies would not wish upon us. 

Are these extravagant promises? We think not. 

We witness them frequently and we see the results - sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly. They will always materialize if we give in to them.