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Creator of Gmail Donates $100K to Prop 19 to Help Legalize Marijuana
    #13407220 - 10/29/10 05:16 PM (13 years, 6 months ago)

Creator of Gmail Donates $100K to Prop 19 to Help Legalize Marijuana
October 29, 2010 - laist.com

41 years ago today at UCLA, the first ever e-mail was sent. The message landed at Stanford University in Silicon Valley where decades later Google made home with the slogan "Don't Be Evil." The man behind phrase, and behind Adsense and Gmail, is Paul Buchheit.

And today, in celebration of the anniversary of e-mail, Buchheit, a current Facebook employee, donated $100,000 to Prop 19, the campaign to legalize marijuana in California.

"Silicon Valley is home to many of the largest contributors to the campaign to legalize marijuana in California," said Sasha Horwitz of the Yes on 19 campaign. "We believe this is indicative of a changing of the guard in political influence to a younger, tech generation."

For Buchheit, it's partly about safety, he explains on his blog:

Quote:

Benjamin Franklin once wrote, "Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."

Philosophically, I agree with that. However, if we don't feel safe, if we can't go out in public without fearing for our lives and the lives of our family, then we aren't really free. Since becoming a parent, I've come to understand why parents often seem especially fearful. Our children are so precious to us, and we must keep them safe. I can understand the impulse to simply make more rules, to build taller walls, and to lockup anyone who seems scary.

I think the real point of Benjamin Franklin's quote is that when we destroy freedom, we are ultimately destroying safety as well. This is most apparent when we examine the disastrous effects of drug prohibition.

Not only is prohibition an attack on our basic right to control our own bodies and minds (a philosophical point which most people probably don't care about), but prohibition also provides a multi-billion dollar subsidy to violent criminal organizations that threaten our physical safety and security, something everyone cares about.



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Re: Creator of Gmail Donates $100K to Prop 19 to Help Legalize Marijuana [Re: veggie]
    #13407382 - 10/29/10 05:49 PM (13 years, 6 months ago)

While I'm sure it still helps, I don't see why these big donors have waited until the last couple days to step up.  I especially wonder why George Soros didn't throw in his $1 million donation from the get go,  think of all the commercials/etc which could have been purchased.  The funds may have had a bigger impact if they were carefully allocated throughout the campaign.

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