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Soros Supports Change in U.S. Approach to Drugs 
Posted by FoM on September 30, 1999 at 14:03:17 PT
Source: Chronicle of Philanthropy
Philanthropist George Soros has contributed $30 million over the past six years to change the way the U.S. government deals with illegal drug users, the Chronicle of Philanthropy reported Sept. 23. 
In an effort to reshape America's drug policies, Soros has been funding various groups and programs that are examining new approaches to the drug issue. Soros supports drug treatment programs instead of treating drug users as criminals, for example."When I started looking to do something in the United States, I saw that one of the areas where policy has unintended adverse consequences is drug policy. That was the insight that got me involved," said Soros, who founded the Open Society Institute. "I do have a very strong conviction that what we are doing now is doing an awful lot of harm." Pubdate: September 23, 1999The Soros Foundation Networkhttp://www.soros.org/ The Lindesmith Centerhttp://www.lindesmith.org/ Related Articles:Capitalists for Cannabis - 9/29/99http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread3059.shtmlBusybodies Trying To Stifle Debate - 9/27/99http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread3044.shtmlColoradans For Medical Rightshttp://www.medicalmarijuana.com/Americans For Medical Rightshttp://www.levellers.org/cannabis.htmlVoters Will Decide on Marijuana - 9/22/99http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread2974.shtml MMJ Initiative On Ballot After Signature Recount - 9/22/99http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread2979.shtml 
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Comment #3 posted by observer on September 30, 1999 at 20:21:04 PT
more on Soros
Police state cheerleaders like McCaffery take every opportunity to make Soros' influence seem as big and bad as possible (while ignoring the vastly larger sums extorted from taxpayers for propaganda designed to steal taxpayers' freedom). Any opposition, however miniscule compared to the police state's propaganda machine, is of course described as "one side was doing all the talking" ...excerpt from "Congressional Hearing About Drug Legalization" http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v99/n653/a07.html ------The hearing was largely prompted by voter initiatives to approve medicinal marijuana in Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Oregon, Nevada Washington and the District of Columbia. The initiatives were financed in part by the billionaire investor George Soros, who has also reportedly contributed about $10 million to the Lindesmith Center and the Drug Policy Foundation, two groups spearheading the effort to change the way that Americans view illegal drugs. "There was a feeling that one side was doing all the talking and there really needed to be a congressional response to this," said Bobby Charles, the chief counsel for the Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy and Human Resources, which held the hearing. Gen. Barry R. McCaffrey, the retired general who is the White House's national director of drug control policy, put it more bluntly. "We're getting rolled in the public arena by very clever people," he told the subcommittee. ------more mapinc articles on Soros herehttp://www.mapinc.org/swish?KEYWORDS=Soros&HITS=40&TAG=B&CONTEXT=ALL+News+%281997-99%29+%A0
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Comment #2 posted by FoM on September 30, 1999 at 19:34:10 PT
I Don't Know
The only think I know about George Soros is he is involved in drug policy reform and has something to do with The Lindesmith Center. I respect Ethan Nadelmann's way of talking about drug policy reform and that's about all I know. I don't get into details. I really don't have the time to right now. About the amount of money I wonder this. If a person donates too much money can't that get brought under investigation for something by our government? I remember an article vaguely that makes me think that's so.Peace, FoM!
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Comment #1 posted by observer on September 30, 1999 at 18:17:32 PT
only $5 mil per year?
>Philanthropist George Soros has contributed $30 > million over the past six years to change the way > the U.S. government deals with illegal drug users, > the Chronicle of Philanthropy reported Sept. 23. That's all he spends? A paltry $5 mil per year? The way Prohibitionists repeatedly scream bloody murder at "Soros' money", you'd have thought he matched the billions that the government spends on anti-drug-user propaganda! Just goes to show you what prohibitionists really want: no freedom to use drugs that aren't sold by distillers and breweries, no freedom to complain about the loss of freedom, and NO freedom to advocate changing unjust and nontraditional laws.
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