California Marijuana Legalization Advocates Jump Ship, Back "Sean Parker" Measure

Despite a lack of Sean Parker — and a most certain lack of his money — the "Adult Use of Marijuana Act," a marijuana legalization initiative proposed for the Nov. 2016 California ballot, has become known as the "Parker initiative." (Parker, long rumored to be interested in bankrolling a ballot measure to legalize cannabis, because apparently that's what billionaires do, has voiced support for the measure, but has not formally lent his name to anything.) 

And the "Parker Initiative" has also become known as the frontrunner among the ten or so proposed legalization initiatives with the best chance to qualify for the ballot and actually be before voters next year, in large part because of that imprimatur, however informal (and tenuous).

That frontrunner status appears to have been further cemented after six board members from the Coalition for Cannabis Policy Reform, which had submitted...

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