Washington State Puts The Legalization Question to the Voters

Posted by Karri Gallaugher on January 7, 2012
Jan 072012
Washington State Puts The Legalization Question to the Voters

The group behind the effort to legalize marijuana use in Washington state submitted 341,000 signatures to get their initiative on the ballot. Out of those, they will need at least 241,153 valid signatures to qualify. New Approach Washington are the backers who raised over a million dollars, with $250,000 of that coming from Peter Lewis, the Ex-CEO of progressive insurance who has become a cannabis philanthropist. Initiative 502 would create a regulated system of state-licensed growers, processors and outlets and at each stage, the state will collect a 25 percent excise tax. Those licensees, at each stage will cost $250, with a renewal fee of $1000.

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Another Deep Pocket Steps Up for Proposition 19

Posted by Karri Gallaugher on October 16, 2010
Oct 162010
Another Deep Pocket Steps Up for Proposition 19

A retired insurance company executive from Florida who has close ties with the Marijuana Policy Project has donated $209,005 to the campaign to legalize marijuana in the state of California.

In 1996, Lewis donated a half a million dollars to Proposition 215, the measure that made California the first state in the nation to legalize medical marijuana. In 2000, he donated over a million dollars to Proposition 36 to allow nonviolent drug offenders to spend time in treatment, rather than a concrete box for their crimes.

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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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