Sean Parker, a co-founder of Facebook and the inventor of Napster and Dustin Moskowitz, another Facebook co-founder, have donated $170,000 in support of California Proposition 19, a pro-pot measure.
According to CNet Parker donated $100,000, while Moskowitz added $70,000 to the coffers of pro-marijuana supporters.
While Parker and Moskowitz are no longer with the company, they have both earned millions of dollars from their ownership stakes in the world’s largest social networking website which is valued upwards of $34 billion.
Sean Parker’s large donation came just after the “Yes on 19″ campaign committee announced that they were running low on funds in the final weeks leading up to the bills vote.
You may recall that several “pro pot” groups had recently went on the offensive when Facebook tried to restrict their freedom of speech.
The biggest donation? A six figure offering from Phil Harvey, an adult entertainment mogul.
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So glad that while single mothers fight to put bread on their tables and keep the lights on, while working their fingers to the bone, that these would be ‘leaders’ spend their money to legalize marijuana. What a great legacy and total waste of money.
Priorities, I guess.
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Well, this initiative could go either way at this point. Personally, I’m not offended by legalizing marijuana. I don’t use, but I don’t think it’s any different than alcohol. Perhaps the government could make some tax revenue on it. Then they could focus their attention on the serious and violent crimes.
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For the record – I don’t have a problem with it, either – but I DO take issue that someone thinks this issue is worth the $70k – as if there aren’t much more pressing needs.
I mean, is it THAT serious that you need to toss a year’s wages at it? You couldn’t see some needy family out there that could use it because they just lost their dad to stage 4 cancer, or whatever the story would be?
And how much MORE would that do as far as your credibility as a business owner? Rather, former Facebook creator and other folks are aligned with…what…porn industry leaders?
Seriously, a waste of money and a wasted reputation. (Yes, I am a capitalist, and they can spend their money how they please – but there are real people with serious needs out there – I DOUBT marijuana legalization would change the world for the better.)
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I think their money could have gone for much better things than supporting the legalization of marijuana!
BUT with that being said- I would rather have marijuana be legal than alcohol….I have never heard of anyone being aggressive or killing someone while smoking marijuana…..if anything they are in a better mood, not worse.
I have been surprised many, many times with the people I find out who use…..
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Legalizing marijuana would give tons of jobs and taxes. It would prevent that mexican mafia taking over national parks to grow pot and terrorize innocent people.
That’s no reason for marijuana to be illegal and a lots of reasons to control and make money with it.
If you say that is a waste of money to invest 70k in marijuana and this money could have be used to support poor families. what about legalize it and give this poor families a job in the marijuana farms, or on the marijuana dispensaries, or the marijuana factories, or shoes factories that use marijuana fibers.
Let’s take the drug money from illegal activities and put that money for the population use, hospitals, give it back to taxes payers.
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Diogo – Sounds so good on paper. Or…on a blog, which is paperless…
What, besides the “tax revenue” (which has been used to legalize the red light district in all of its abasement in Nevada, for example), are the benefits of marijuana on the human body or on society?
When was the last time you read anywhere that marijuana use actually helped change history for the better? Compare that to education, or actual jobs that really benefit people (and not the drug users themselves, who are more than happy to legalize any hedonistic substance) – what are the benefits to marijuana use?
The old, “tax revenue” and “creating jobs” argument is a red herring used to weakly defend any number of horrible ideas – like legalizing prostitution in Nevada, for example. What a “great idea.”
That $70k could have gone to any number of more useful expenditures, but of course for notoriety and for hedonistic, self-serving purposes (maybe he has a pot farm?) that money goes to support legalizing a drug that has done nothing good for anyone.
Even would be medical uses are nothing more than anesthetizing the pain – same could be said about any number of substances that destroy industry, the fabric of families, and the moral character of those using the drugs.
But go ahead and kid yourself that this is a good idea. While we’re at it, let’s make child pornography legal, too – think of all the jobs that would be created! The single mothers with young “stars…”
See the twisted logic? It doesn’t work in any other industry, but of course it should be used in *this one* right?
Would you apply the same logic to [insert current crime that can be used to produce "tax revenue" - as if the government needed more money - and "jobs" - as if a good capitalist can't find a way to make money]?
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All smoke marihuana. Legalisation has both the good and bad party. It is good that to smoke it it will be possible without breaking the law. Badly that it all the same a drug.
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