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New Approach Oregon recently filed a proposed initiative to legalize marijuana use and sale.

(AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

New Approach Oregon, the group promoting a Washington-style marijuana legalization marijuana, has snagged another big out-of-state donor.

Philip Harvey, who runs the world's largest mail-order business for sexual merchandise,

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in helping to back the legalization drive.

, Harvey is not your typical purveyor of pornography. Instead, Harvey created Adam & Eve to fuel his non-profit arm, which funds family planning programs around the world.

"I was very taken with the idea that I could sell sexual accoutrements to relatively wealthy Americans and use the proceeds to support family planning in developing countries," he told the magazine in a 2002 profile.

SIDE NOTE

: In other fundraising news on the initiative front, J.R. Simplot gave $10,000 to a proposed ballot measure that would largely end Oregon's program

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The proposal would

, largely erasing the legal need for utilities to purchase additional power from wind or solar.

-- Jeff Mapes