Best Buds: Gmail Creator Joins Facebook Co-Founder, Donates 100K To Legalize Marijuana

Friday, 29 October 2010 20:44

Best Buds: Gmail Creator Joins Facebook Co-Founder, Donates 100K To Legalize Marijuana

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It’s pretty easy being green if you’re a Silicon Valley notable apparently. We just got word that Paul Buchheit, creator of Gmail, Friendfeed and now a Facebook employee, has surpassed Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz’s 70K contribution to the Yes on Prop 19 campaign.

The 100K donation comes in celebration of 41st anniversary of

email, and joins that of Moskovitz, Sean Parker, Paypal co-founder Peter Thiel and Steve Silberstein in the effort to legalize marijuana in California.

Bucheit was the originator of the term “Don’t Be Evil” while he was at Google. His current employer Facebook rejected advertising from marijuana activists over the summer.

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