Top Anti-Legalization Funder Says Marijuana Causes Terrorism
Prohibitionists just revealed that a retired professor is bankrolling their efforts to defeat marijuana legalization ballot measures this year to the tune of more than $1.3 million.
SAM Action, the advocacy arm of the nonprofit Smart Approaches to Marijuana, said in campaign finance documents filed Friday in both California and Massachusetts that Julie Schauer, a former art teacher at Northern Virginia Community College, has given the group at least $1,389,000 this year.
A Marijuana.com investigation reveals that Schauer has a history of making alarmist claims about marijuana.
Among the more provocative things she’s posted on the Internet over the years are suggestions that cannabis use causes violence:
Whatever alcohol and tobacco can do, marijuana was the drug of choice of the Tsarnaev brothers, the recent Santa Barbara shooter (note his video, “Smoke Pot Everyday,” James Holmes, Jared Loughner.
To be clear, a major donor to the...
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