Facebook founder donates to California marijuana vote
Baku, October 9 (AZERTAC). Facebook co-founder Sean Parker has donated $100,000 (£62,000) to support the US state of California`s ballot measure to legalise marijuana.
Financial filings for the Proposition 19 campaign revealed the donation.
Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz also made donations totalling $70,000 to the measure last month. The pair are no longer with Facebook.
Californians vote next month on whether to legalise the possession and sale of marijuana.
"What`s interesting here is that [Parker] is a member of the generation that really gets it," Drug Policy Alliance spokesman Stephen Gutwillig told the Associated Press news agency.
"We think he`s pivotal to the future of drug policy reform in the country," said Mr Gutwillig, whose organization will be the main beneficiary of Mr Parker`s donation.
Mr Parker, who was recently portrayed in the film The Social Network, joined Facebook in 2004 and helped steer the website`s first major round of funding as the company`s first president.
The internet entrepreneur, who is now a partner at a Silicon Valley venture capital firm, also worked as the co-founder of the music sharing service Napster at the age of 19.
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