Billionaire Gives a Last-Minute Million to the Prop 19 Efforts

Posted by Karri Gallaugher on October 28, 2010
Oct 282010
Billionaire Gives a Last-Minute Million to the Prop 19 Efforts

George Soros, the billionaire philanthropist has given $1 million dollars to help pass Prop 19 in the last few days before the election.

Soros is the founder and chairman of Open Society Foundations, a pro-democracy organization. He also wrote that legalization could reduce violent crime related to illegal drug markets and reduce the racial inequities of African-Americans bearing the brunt of drug arrests even though they are no more likely to use marijuana than other Americans. Soros said the money spent on anti-marijuana law enforcement would be better spent on educating teenagers to stay away from marijuana and other drugs.

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California's Prop 19 Initiative Is Looking for a Sugar Daddy

Posted by Karri Gallaugher on August 13, 2010
Aug 132010
California's Prop 19 Initiative Is Looking for a Sugar Daddy

How much does it cost to put a ballot initiative like proposition 19 on the ballot, or the original prop 215 that came before it? The answer to that question is a lot. The first time around, the 1996 medical marijuana initiative had many big donors, such as George Soros, but this year Proposition 19 has attracted few large donations outside of Richard Lee, the dispensary entrepreneur who sponsored the trail breaking initiative.

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