Dr. Bronner’s Just Made A Dank Donation In Fight For Legal Weed

It plans to give over half a million to nonprofits campaigning for this change.

Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps wants to see laws legalizing marijuana get puff-puff passed. 

The endearingly quirky organic soap-maker said Monday it plans to donate $660,000 to two nonprofit groups ― New Approach and the Marijuana Policy Project ― campaigning for legal weed in California, Massachusetts, Maine, Arizona and Nevada. In November, all five states are set to vote on ballot measures that could make recreational marijuana use legal. 

“The expected sweep of these states will exert enormous pressure on federal lawmakers to end the racist, outdated policy of cannabis prohibition, that shreds productive citizens’ lives and families for no good reason, and focus law enforcement resources instead on actual crime,” the Vista, California-based company, which operates as a family business, said in a statement.

Dr. Bronner’s has long supported ending prohibition laws on cannabis. In...

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