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Nothing has caused so much bad blood as the money he has given to drug-law reform. In 1994 he began funding the Lindesmith Center. Its director, Ethan Nadelmann, campaigns for an end to the so-called war on drugs and advocates sweeping drug-policy reforms. Soros has committed at least $15 million to Lindesmith and other groups. Last fall he became a target of the zero-tolerance lobby after contributing $1 million to help pass state referendums in California and Arizona to legalize the medical use of such drugs as marijuana. Critics of the new marijuana laws argued they...
...many see benefits from legalization that go beyond easing the crime problem. Princeton Professor Ethan Nadelmann estimates that federal, state and local governments are spending around $8 billion a year on direct drug- enforcement activities and billions more for such indirect costs as care and feeding of imprisoned drug dealers (people convicted of drug-related crimes constitute more than one-third of all federal prisoners). Legalization not only would save these enormous expenditures but also could bring in billions more in new revenues if governments chose to tax the sale of newly legal drugs (as they surely would). Nadelmann...
...School will soon launch a program to study conflicting international laws, thanks to a $ 250,000 bequest from former Law School faculty member Kurl H. Nadelmann, who died last year...
According to Story Professor of the Law School Arthur Von Mehrew, who is executor of Nadelmann's will, the endowment will probably be used to fund visiting scholars, conferences, publications, travel, and general research in the area of conflict of laws. He added, however, "There hasn't really been any thinking about that...
...Nadelmann was an expert on the subject, and served as a member of several U.S. delegations to The Hague Conference on Private International...