Casino Head Puts Up $1.5M To Defeat Pot Amendment
TALLAHASSEE (CBSMiami/AP) — The battle over Florida's medical marijuana amendment is getting intense.
A billionaire casino magnate is putting up more money to defeat the proposal to legalize medical marijuana.
New campaign finance reports filed Friday show Sheldon Adelson has donated another $1.5 million to the group that wants to defeat the constitutional amendment that will be on November ballot.
Adelson, a high-profile Republican donor and CEO of Las Vegas Sands Corp., has given a total of $4 million to the Drug Free Florida Committee.
The committee is using the money to pay for television ads criticizing Amendment 2. Adelson's donations represent 84-percent of the money raised by the group.
Amendment 2 needs 60 percent support on the November ballot to be added to the Florida Constitution.
Adelson's wife is a physician who helped found drug-abuse treatment centers.
Adelson recently dropped a spot to 12th on the Forbes list of the richest people in the U.S.
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