Soros gives $1M to Calif. pot legalization measure

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/26/AR2010102603801.html


Billionaire financier George Soros has thrown his weight behind California's marijuana legalization measure with a $1 million donation a week before the vote. The contribution reported Tuesday by The Sacramento Bee is the single biggest donation from an individual other than Proposition 19's main sponsor, Oakland medical marijuana entrepreneur Richard Lee.

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"For him, it's not been about legalization per se, but about rolling back the drug war," said Nadelmann.

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Other high-profile donations to Proposition 19 in recent days include $50,000 from Men's Wearhouse chief executive George Zimmer and $70,000 from hedge fund president and Paypal co-founder Peter Thiel, according to campaign finance records.

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really good news and thank you to Soros and the others

[arbusto_baboso]

1. How long before the extreme right paints Soros as a "drug dealer"?

'Cuz I can guarantee that our Freeper friends will do so as soon as they hear of this story.

[peoli]

2. should be coming up this afternoon.....

[Life Long Dem]

3. This is drug dealing.

Mexican drug violence spreading, Arizona man beheaded

With more than 28,000 people dead in Mexican drug violence since December 2006, US authorities are concerned about cross-border killings - after an Arizona man was found decapitated.

http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/299552#ixzz13lJN73PO

[bluedigger]

4. All the more reason to cut the Mexican cartels out.