No permits were secured (or sought) for the ultra-low-budget documentary, which was funded through the sale of used books at the book stand during shooting and a small grant from the Playboy Foundation.
NORML was founded in 1970 by Keith Stroup funded by $5,000 from the Playboy Foundation.
It gives grants and in-kind contributions, such as advertising space in the Playboy magazine to organizations concerned with US First Amendment freedoms.
National Science Foundation | Playboy | Ford Foundation | Rockefeller Foundation | John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation | Electronic Frontier Foundation | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | New York Foundation for the Arts | Mozilla Foundation | Guggenheim Foundation | Alexander von Humboldt Foundation | Playboy Playmate | Andrew W. Mellon Foundation | Wikimedia Foundation | Apache Software Foundation | foundation | Playboy TV | Make-A-Wish Foundation | John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation | Clinton Foundation | Open Software Foundation | Konex Foundation | Foundation series | Cystic Fibrosis Foundation | Carnegie Foundation | Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation | McKnight Foundation | Japan Foundation | Ingram Merrill Foundation | Helms Foundation College Basketball Player of the Year |
She served on the board of the Playboy Foundation and became involved in AIDS research and education (she helped and supported Rebekka Armstrong when she came out as HIV-positive and became one of the best-known public faces of heterosexual HIV transmission).