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David Bronner: Why We Donated $100,000 to Prop 19 * 1
    #13321547 - 10/11/10 03:48 PM (13 years, 3 months ago)

David Bronner: Why We Donated $100,000 to Prop 19
October 7, 2010 - Huffington Post

I am President and co-owner of Dr. Bronner's Magic Soaps, a 60-year-old company founded by my German-Jewish grandfather, Emanuel Bronner in 1948. Our family and over 60 employees in California produce the best-selling natural brand of soap in the United States. We use certified organic and fair trade vegetable oils, including non-drug hemp seed oil to super-fat the soaps for smoother lather and moisturizing after-feel.

Dr. Bronner's caps executive compensation at 5 to 1 of the lowest paid position. Our commitment to fairness takes profits not needed for business development and debt payment and devotes them to various causes, including the Boys & Girls Club, Organic Consumers Association, Vote Hemp and the Fair World Project.

Dr. Bronner's buys 20 tons of hemp oil for our soaps from Canada annually. For nearly ten years the Bronner family has financially supported bringing back non-drug industrial hemp farming in the US as an environmentally sustainable crop that can be made into a wide variety of products including food, cosmetics, clothing, building materials and more.

I have decided to personally give a $75,000 donation to Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP) for "Get Out the Vote" efforts to pass Prop 19 in California, the Regulate, Control and Tax Cannabis Act of 2010. Adam Eidinger and Alan Amsterdam, co-founders of Capitol Hemp Clothing and Accessories, have donated an additional $25,000 as well. Dr. Bronner's will also provide the company's promotional fire truck to "sound the alarm" on college campuses across California. We hope to mobilize younger voters who are the primary victims of the war on cannabis who know first-hand the lies of cannabis prohibition.

My decision to support Prop 19 also stems from experience with medical cannabis in the case of a close friend who used cannabis to get through chemotherapy and survive stage-IV Hepatitis C. Her local dispensary was raided and shut down by drug war zealots from the local DA's office. Since the proposition will make it easier for adults to have access to cannabis, citizens will enjoy improved access to a safe and effective medicine useful in treating a number of illnesses. As long ago as 1988, DEA's own Administrative Law Judge Francis Young concluded:

"In strict medical terms marijuana is far safer than many foods we commonly consume. For example, eating 10 raw potatoes can result in a toxic response. By comparison, it is physically impossible to eat enough marijuana to induce death. Marijuana in its natural form is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man. By any measure of rational analysis marijuana can be safely used within the supervised routine of medical care."

As usual in the long sordid history of cannabis prohibition, drug war hysteria trumped science and reason.

Business leaders should stand up and do the right thing, unlike hypocritical politicians who oppose Prop 19, yet admit they used marijuana but continue to support laws that they themselves broke. I want this donation to be a challenge to people who know that cannabis prohibition is a disfigurement of our democracy but have not contributed to Prop 19.

Business people know legalizing cannabis will decrease the massive waste of taxpayer money and the bloody violence across the border that threatens to spill into our streets, but they need to support Proposition 19 before it is too late. I'm calling up businesses like ours that I know are socially and environmentally conscious with a simple message, "Just Say Now, now is the time to step up support." Prop 19 will free up police for fighting real crimes and stop renegade cannabis cultivation by gangs that are destroying our national parks. Cannabis prohibition, not the herb itself, has been ruining productive and upstanding citizens' lives with courts and jails for decades.

As a successful business owner, father and soccer coach, I thank God for the gift of cannabis. Cannabis for me is a daily sacrament and communion that at the end of each day helps me get past my small petty self and find my moral center. At the next corporate picnic, listen to what Bob Marley is singing. Why should anyone so righteous be thrown in jail?

We are grateful that Richard Lee had the faith to put Prop 19 on the ballot with $1.5 million of his own money. He has given us all an unprecedented opportunity to make a difference this November - Yes we Cannabis!

For more information and to make a donation, go to www.YesOn19.com


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Re: David Bronner: Why We Donated $100,000 to Prop 19 [Re: veggie]
    #13321606 - 10/11/10 03:59 PM (13 years, 3 months ago)

When will we know if it passed or not?


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Re: David Bronner: Why We Donated $100,000 to Prop 19 [Re: veggie]
    #13321608 - 10/11/10 03:59 PM (13 years, 3 months ago)

Wow!  We need more people like this!  If every financially successful cannabis user donated to prop 19 it could probably run ads 24/7.


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Re: David Bronner: Why We Donated $100,000 to Prop 19 [Re: Nymphaea]
    #13321993 - 10/11/10 05:08 PM (13 years, 3 months ago)

I hope to see some pro-prop 19 TV ads before the final hour approaches.


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Re: David Bronner: Why We Donated $100,000 to Prop 19 [Re: SuperD]
    #13322057 - 10/11/10 05:21 PM (13 years, 3 months ago)

AWEEESOOOOOOOOMEEEE they just donated 100,000 to MAPS a few weeks back


I love my soap :smile:


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Re: David Bronner: Why We Donated $100,000 to Prop 19 [Re: Mr.Pink]
    #13322143 - 10/11/10 05:43 PM (13 years, 3 months ago)

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Mr.Pink said:
When will we know if it passed or not?




november 2nd

if you live in california get out and vote, i am doing my absentee ballot tomorrow.


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Re: David Bronner: Why We Donated $100,000 to Prop 19 [Re: ReposadoXochipilli]
    #13322429 - 10/11/10 06:55 PM (13 years, 3 months ago)

We'll know the day of and if it passes it goes into effect the day after.


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Re: David Bronner: Why We Donated $100,000 to Prop 19 [Re: paridiso]
    #13322584 - 10/11/10 07:38 PM (13 years, 3 months ago)

100 000 to MAPS also!?

Makes me feel even better for using dr.bronners!

Best soap ever, not just for this, but as a soap too!


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This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and affection for a few persons nearest us.

Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole nature in its beauty.

Nobody is able to achieve this completely but striving for such achievement is, in itself, a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security."

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Re: David Bronner: Why We Donated $100,000 to Prop 19 [Re: Cannashroom]
    #13324094 - 10/12/10 01:49 AM (13 years, 3 months ago)

so...i could just go buy pot without a medical card? thats what prop 19 does?


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Re: David Bronner: Why We Donated $100,000 to Prop 19 [Re: smurfyshmu]
    #13324393 - 10/12/10 05:43 AM (13 years, 3 months ago)

Quote:

smurfyshmu said:
so...i could just go buy pot without a medical card? thats what prop 19 does?




See my sig: http://anonym.to/?http://stash.norml.org/californias-prop-19-a-word-for-word-analysis

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If a city wants to legalize sales, it can only be up to an ounce per transaction and everybody involved has to be 21 or older.

A city can license bars and coffee shops to allow on-site toking, as well as the retail marijuana stores.

A city can punish you for getting cannabis illegally.  You can grow your own or you can buy it from a licensed store.  You and your friends can share what you grow, up to an ounce each.




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Re: David Bronner: Why We Donated $100,000 to Prop 19 [Re: Cannashroom]
    #13326450 - 10/12/10 03:45 PM (13 years, 3 months ago)

Quote:

Drise said:
AWEEESOOOOOOOOMEEEE they just donated 100,000 to MAPS a few weeks back


I love my soap :smile:



Quote:

Cannashroom said:
100 000 to MAPS also!?

Makes me feel even better for using dr.bronners!

Best soap ever, not just for this, but as a soap too!





I've never heard of Dr. Bronners, but I just ordered some soap to support the cause!

:flyhigh:


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Re: David Bronner: Why We Donated $100,000 to Prop 19 [Re: Happy2fly]
    #13327076 - 10/12/10 06:09 PM (13 years, 3 months ago)

Dude, it is the best soap ever.

The peppermint will tingle your balls that first couple times.

I can only find peppermint in my local stores for a reasonable price but there are a variety of scents.


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Re: David Bronner: Why We Donated $100,000 to Prop 19 [Re: Drise]
    #13329890 - 10/13/10 09:02 AM (13 years, 3 months ago)

Quote:

Drise said:
Dude, it is the best soap ever.

The peppermint will tingle your balls that first couple times.

I can only find peppermint in my local stores for a reasonable price but there are a variety of scents.




I ordered rose and tea tree.  Not a big fan of peppermint... :bonghit:


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But so does the human experience.. which is like fire, sometimes you just need to stoke the coals and sometimes you just need to add a log or reposition the log matrix. But a well built fire will be much more self-sustaining than a poorly built one, and they all need love to grow. And don't fuck around or your might burn yourself. Must always respect the fire. - Shroomism


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Re: David Bronner: Why We Donated $100,000 to Prop 19 [Re: Drise]
    #13332638 - 10/13/10 06:55 PM (13 years, 3 months ago)

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Drise said:
Dude, it is the best soap ever.





Agreed. On tour I used Bronners for soap, shampoo, toothpaste, and laundry. :cool:


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Re: David Bronner: Why We Donated $100,000 to Prop 19 [Re: muistrue]
    #13336609 - 10/14/10 04:33 PM (13 years, 3 months ago)

Toothpaste?!?! I don't know about that one...

Maybe I'll try


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