California: Why Legalization Could Lose
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Along with $250,000 donations from a political action committee controlled by WeedMaps — the dispensary-finding website that serves as the "Google Maps for Pot" — and from legalization veterans Marijuana Policy Project and the Drug Policy Alliance, to whom much of the credit for legalizing in Washington, Colorado, and Oregon are due, Parker's half-million is the biggest donation to the campaign committee called "Californians to Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana While Protecting Children."
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