What Soros’ Pot Committee Didn’t Want You To Know
TAGS: Boston Herald, Committee for Sensible Marijuana Policy, George Soros, marijuana, Marijuana Policy Project.
The pro-marijuana group, the Committee for Sensible Marijuana Policy, is upset that the Boston Herald revealed that George Soros provides their funding and for suggesting their initiative has ulterior motives.
Backers of a ballot question to decriminalize some pot possession fired back at charges that their initiative is a gateway for weaker drug laws – and took aim at the Herald for uncovering who’s funding the movement.
“(The Committee for Sensible Marijuana Policy) does not support marijuana ‘legalization’ or endorse or condone marijuana use, as the Herald is well aware” wrote campaign manager Whitney Taylor in an e-mail.
Taylor, who would not be interviewed, also wrote: “The Herald’s effort to confuse Bay Staters into thinking Question 2 is about marijuana legalization is a disservice to voters.”
The Herald reported yesterday that the ballot committee received 30 percent of its money from the Marijuana Policy Project, a Washington, D.C., group that promotes legal, over-the-counter sales of marijuana.
Overall, $400,000 – 63 percent – of the $635,000 it raised came from George Soros, a billionaire philanthropist. He is on the board of the Drug Policy Alliance Network, a New York group that backs legalization of marijuana.
What wrong with letting the public whose minds you’re trying to influence who is the financial backer of your group? Are they ashamed of George Soros or his money? Why are they so upset about this being reported? People like to know what lobbyists have a financial hold on politicians, why not advocacy groups, too? It’s only fair, seeing as all their money is coming from groups that support the legalization of marijuana, and they claim they don’t support that cause.
Middlesex District Attorney Gerard Leone said it’s fair to scrutinize the money behind the movement.
“The fact that Question 2 is being financed by activists who support over-the-counter marijuana is further evidence that they have a larger, pro-drug mission,” Leone said in a statement.
Exactly.
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Aaron Margolis is a life long resident of the Bay State, and works at an architectural firm north of Boston. Aaron has a Master of Architecture Degree from Boston Architectural College and is currently in the process of becoming of a Registered Architect.
Your favorite DA,,,also says, that if the majority of mass voters should happen to vote for the intitative.. he will fight the result in court.. I guess he just he nows whats best for us pesky mass voters….
well.. thats when they are not violating campaign finance laws and taking money without a ballot committee.. but they are so smart and all.. we should bow down to there superior knowledge…and let them lead dammit
vote YES on 2… It just makes sense
One need only look to Nevada where the exact same people have twice tried to pass decriminalization. Nevada, people. Think about it. Marijuana Policy Project funded Measure 9, a 2002 initiative to decriminalize possession of 3 ounces of cannabis. It failed, and MPP tried again in 2004 to get a similar measure on the Nevada ballot, again failing. MPP went on to place the measure on the state’s 2006 ballot, spending tons of out-of-state money to enact the new law. This time they tried for one ounce. Again failure.
Personally I wouldn’t look at people in nevada for any ideas of actual intelligence.. I mean lets face it.. they actually moved to nevada in the the first place.. not too smart. all the green countryside in the US.. and someone would actually CHOOSE to live in the middle of a desolate desert next to gambling establishments to take all there money..a place that has slot machines in the restriooms..
especially with somewhere like california nearby and nice oceans. you go to nevada to die nothing more..
They are also a republican state in 8 out of 10 of the last 10 elections. mass is 8 out of 10 democrat.. apples to oranges.. you would have to compare with something like california for a libral state like mass… ooops.. they have medical marijuana dont they, as well as alot of the cities having it as the lowest law enforcement priority…
as for pro legalization supporters supporting the bill.. who cares.. the bill says exactly what it does… if you dont want to legalize marijuana when and if a bill comes to legalize vote no on THAT bill.. until that time who cares who helps with the bills.. it costs alot of money to gather signitures… sometimes even people you disagree with may have partially the same path as you, if they want to chip in.. why not take it. if it ever comes to legalizing the majority of voters will have the last say not some ballot question committe from an old initiative. thats the great thing about a democracy.. majority vote rules.
now who supports the insidious ballot question 2 here?
most importantly…
A Suffolk University / WHDH Channel 7 poll has shown that 72 percent of Greater Boston residents are in favor of replacing criminal penalties with civil fines for carrying an ounce or less of marijuana. The poll was conducted between July 31 and August 3, 2008.
A FastTrack poll by WBZ TV /Survey USA on September 17th showed that 69% of all Massachusetts voters would favor either decriminalization or legalization. It was broken down to show that 30% want it remain a crime, 31% want it changed to a civil fine, and 38% would like it to be legalized completely. The poll had a margin of error of 4.5%.
So far 30 non-binding public policy questions calling for civil fines for possession of marijuana rather then criminal penalties have passed in legislative districts throughout Massachusetts since 2000. These questions were passed with an average of 62% of the vote in favor. No Public policy question related to replacing criminal penalties with civil fines has ever failed in the state of Massachusetts.
The Joint Mental Health and Substance Abuse Committee of the Massachusetts General Court voted 6-1 in favor of a bill that would have made possession of less than an ounce of marijuana punishable by a civil fine.
The National Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse (also known as the Shafer Commission) was created by Public Law 91-513 in 1972 to study marijuana abuse in the United States. It published its findings in a report called Marihuana: A Signal of Misunderstanding and recommended that the president should decriminalize possession of marijuana in amounts that constituted “simple possession”.
Gee… what president has gotten 72% of the vote? even if the polls are off by 10%.. its a landslide.. the public in mass can use common sense and see through the sky is falling arguments…
oh yeah.. these people too..
Organizations
* American Civil Liberties Union — National
* American Civil Liberties Union — Massachusetts chapter
* National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws
* Massachusetts Cannabis Reform Coalition, Inc.
* Union of Minority Neighborhoods
* The Boston Worker’s Alliance
* Law Enforcement Against Prohibition
* Marijuana policy project
[edit] Individuals
* Ronald Ansin, ACLU, philanthropist
* Charles H. Baron, Esq., Boston College School of Law
* Jack Cole, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition
* Michael D. Cutler, Esq.
* Richard Elliott Doblin, PhD, MAPS
* Sergeant Howard Donohue, a 33-year veteran of the Boston Police Department
* Lester Grinspoon, M.D., associate professor emeritus of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School
* John H. Halpern, M.D., assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School
* Massachusetts state Sen. Patricia Jehlen (D-Second Middlesex), chair of the Joint Committee on Elder Affairs and Vice-Chair of the Joint Committee on State Administration and Regulatory Oversight
* Wendy Kaminer, Esq., ACLU, author, journalist
* Woody Kaplan, ACLU, philanthropist
* Thomas R. Kiley, Esq., Cosgrove, Eisenberg & Kiley
* Karen Klein, Brandeis University, Unitarian Universalists for Drug Policy Reform
* Lanny Kutakoff, Partakers, Inc.
* Dr. Robert Meenan, dean of the Boston University School of Public Health
* Lieutenant Thomas Nolan, a 30-year veteran of the Boston Police Department who now teaches criminology at Boston University
* Massachusetts state Rep. Frank Smizik (D-Fifteenth Norfolk), chair of the Joint Committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture
* Carl Valvo, Esq., Cosgrove, Eisenberg & Kiley
* Ernest “Tony” Windsor, Esq., Massachusetts Law Reform Institute
* George Soros, Hedge Fund Manager
* Steven Epstein, Georgetown Lawyer and Founder of Massachusetts Cannabis Reform Coalition
* Massachusetts State Rep. Jim O’Day (D-fourteenth Worcester)
And isn’t it interesting that Coors funds the anti-pot campaign. Now, why would that be, I wonder?
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