US CA: Web: Facebook Billionaires, Dr. Bronner’s Kick in the Money for Legal Pot

AlterNet, 15 Oct 2010 – The campaign to pass California’s Proposition 19, the tax and regulate marijuana legalization initiative, is seeing some good-sized late donations The campaign to pass California’s Proposition 19, the tax and regulate marijuana legalization initiative, is seeing some good-sized late donations, including contributions from Facebook co-founders Dustin Moskovitz and Sean Parker. Meanwhile, Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps heir David Bronner has kicked in tens of thousands more for a get out the vote effort in the campaign’s final weeks. And they’re not the only ones making sizeable late donations.Prop 19 would legalize the possession of up to an ounce of pot by adults 21 or older. It would also allow adults to grow up to 25 square feet of marijuana and possess the harvested results. It would give cities and counties the local option to allow, tax, and regulate commercial marijuana sales and cultivation.