Wow, man. Dr. Bronner's Magic Soaps just gave $5,000 in favor of legalizing marijuana in Oregon.

That sounds like a line from a Cheech and Chong movie, but it's true. The Escondido, Calif. soap company-- the one that squeezes those densely worded philosophical tracts onto its soap bottles --

, which would legalize marijuana in Oregon.

The company's support is no surprise. The family-owned company uses hemp oil in its products and has long been into counterculture activism. Founder Emil Bronner, a German emigre who attached the doctor honorific to his name, used to hold forth in Los Angeles' Pershing Square in the 1950s, arguing in favor of world peace and unity.

"Dr. Bronner sees planetariums as being the 'All-One!' temples of the future, where humanity can realize how vanishingly trivial their differences are on Spaceship Earth in the celestial majesty of Creation,"

on the company's website.

"On the side, he sells his Peppermint soap. He soon realizes that many people are taking the soap and leaving without listening to him speak. In response, Dr. Bronner begins to write his philosophy in dense tiny script on the labels of each bottle."

There. This is for anyone who has spent time under the influence pondering the meaning of the tiny print on those soap bottles.

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