CA: Soros gives $1 mln to support legalization of pot ( Prop 19 )

MarketWatch ^ | Oct. 26, 2010, 1:20 p.m. EDT | Sue Chang

[Argus]

I pretty much agree. But Prop 19 will not pass, and it wouldn’t matter much if it did.

[sargon]

Even a broken clock is right twice a day...

[Brad from Tennessee]

Soros hedge fund clients allegedly include drug cartel members. The Mexican cartels, whose export staple is marijuana, are poised to take control of the California pot industry.

[soxfan]

This is nothing but a crass attempt to get the Cheech and Chong CA stoner vote out to the polls in a year when Obama’s not on the ballot.

[Jim from C-Town]

The man is 80 years old. When will we be rid of this cancer!

[Hodar]

I had to be very honest and blunt.

Many Libertarians are pro- drug, and are falsely accused of wanting drugs legalized for selfish reasons. I don’t use, never felt the need to use, and likely wouldn’t use if they were legal.

I just have no problems watching fools willing to die for a high, getting their wish. In the short term there will be lots of sad stories, but after the fools have taken themselves out of the picture, society will be vastly better.

[sodpoodle]

George Soros became a naturalized American citizen in 1961.

He is 80 years old and is estimated to have a personal fortune of $10billion.

He was born in Hungary where life expectancy is currently 74 years.

Hang on!!!!

[RC2]

I guess we have to ask if the DoJ would prosecute if they didn’t when it came to the New Black Panthers. I think we know the answer when considering this Admin.

[A CA Guy]

Which begs the question, how is it Libertarians here thing legalizing pot is cool and will stop the cartels are at the same time cartels finance legalization through Soros?

Sounds like our Libertarians are using drug logic to make their case because they just want their pot, not due to ending violence and cartels as they claim.

[Califreak]

When he buys it, the services will make Wellstone’s look like a small Tupperware party.

Can you just imagine the wailing and gnashing of dem teeth?

[cripplecreek]

they just want their pot, not due to ending violence and cartels as they claim.

Which is why I have zero respect for their argument. If they can't win the argument without a lie, they don't have a valid argument.

I saw a clown from CA on the news yesterday spouting the fantasy of tax revenue with less need for police like it would create a utopia.

[Califreak]

I’m expecting it to pass because they’re already making noise about unionizing the industry.

Unionized drug cartels.

That’s going to be good for us./

[SeeSac]

He’s stealing the issue for the Left. If he really wanted this to pass, he would have donated the money secretly.

this is nothing new. He has donated money to every pot reform issue in the last decade. One of the main Pot reformer organizations is basically his front.

[A CA Guy]

We see that clown all the time, you mean Jerry (moon beam) Brown?

We have two or three cities where pot is grown indoors by the ton and nothing is done about it and it destroyed the towns and caused massive rising of violence and rent.

[cripplecreek]

My niece went to california to help “harvest the legal drugs for poor oppressed sufferers”. She went from supporting it based on the tax revenue issue to supporting subsidizing it for the poor not because they’re in pain but because they have a right to get high but can’t afford it.

So much for the revenue. I thought college was supposed to make kids smarter.

[cripplecreek]

Drug Policy grants and funding.

http://www.drugpolicy.org/about/jobsfunding/grants/otheropps/

[onyx]

I HONESTLY DON’T KNOW WHY THIS EVIL MONSTER IS STILL BREATHING.

[TrumpisRight]

Confirms Soros is a drug dealer!

[freekitty]

Why is this guy contributing money here in the US?

[A CA Guy]

Until she gets the bills in life that she herself has to pay, she won’t grow up anyway. That is the way it works for everybody anyway.

PS: You pretty much know she’s probably using pot after that, don’t you?