California’s campaign to legalize marijuana received a major boost today with a $1m donation from billionaire financier and philanthropist George Soros.
The cash infusion, one week before Californians vote on a measure that would let anyone over 21 grow and possess up to an ounce of marijuana and allow local councils to tax sales of the drug, marks the first major investment by Soros in the mid-term elections.
Soros, a prominent donor to Democratic organizations in 2004, 2006 and 2008, told the New York Times that he was sitting out these elections because the prospects were so bleak.
“I don’t believe in standing in the way of an avalanche,” he told the Times. Soros has focused instead on funding research into climate change policy, committing to spending $10m a year over the next decade.
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