Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Facebook Billionaire Fights for marijuana legalization

California's ballot measure to legalize marijuana has a new friend: Facebook co-founder Sean Parker has given $100,000 to back the proposal.Parker's donation was reported in Proposition 19 campaign finance filings this week.And he's not the first big Proposition 19 donor with ties to the social networking site. Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz gave $20,000 to the campaign and has contributions $70,000 overall.
Neither Parker nor Moskovitz are still with Palo Alto-based Facebook, but both still have ownership stakes. Recent estimates put the value of the privately held company as high as $33.7 billion."What's interesting here is that (Parker) is a member of the generation that really gets it," said Stephen Gutwillig, a spokesman for the Drug Policy Alliance, the main beneficiary of Parker's contribution. "We think he's pivotal to the future of drug policy reform in the country."The 30-year-old served as Facebook's first president and helped transform the company from dorm-room project to big business. Parker and Moskovitz have become household names since the recent release of "The Social Network." The film chronicling the contentious origins of Facebook was No. 1 at the box office last week.
This guy knows whats up, people need not listen to propaganda but listen to scientific facts and studys.

16 comments:

  1. Damn, I can't wait for summer when i can smoke again! i can't do it while i go to school so have to take breaks :P will be reading your blog from now on :D

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  2. HAHAHAHA I LAUGH AT YOU

    I live in Holland btw!, lots of love :3

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  3. dude is a billionaire and he only gave 100 grand? cheap bastid... thats like me giving a nickel, and asking 4 cents back...

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  4. Awesome post man its nice to read some interesting news

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  5. hundred grand is still alot of money no matter how rich, all donations can help our cause!

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  6. Wow, someone really wants marijuana to be legal!
    Nice blog you got here man!
    following~

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  7. so, what do you think, will that proposition pass ?

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  8. i think it will, but there is still the problem with it being illegal on the federal level.
    i dont even live in the usa lol!

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  9. well it will pass at a state level just may be it will evenutaly pass at the federal level

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  10. Great article, I just became a follower!

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