HOW LEGALIZATION REALLY HAPPENED
Seattle alt-weekly The Stranger has a big story on the secret history of cannabis legalization.
It explains how billionaires George Soros, a Hungary-born financier, Peter Lewis, the CEO of Progressive Insurance, and John Sperling, founder of the University of Phoenix, contributed $70M dollars over 20 years to legalization efforts directed by Ethan Nadelmann, founder of the Drug Policy Alliance.
“Marijuana legalization is more or less unstoppable now, so that gives me a sense of tremendous pride,” Nadelmann said.
- Cannabis Wire interviews Steve Hawkins, Executive Director of the Marijuana Policy Project, on what’s next for the legalization group.
Quick Hits
- San Diego City Beat checks out the cannabis scene in Tijuana.
- Vanity Fair has a yarn about how the successful pastor John Lee Bishop got busted smuggling weed into the U.S.
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