A handful of legacy activists in the state’s marijuana community have agreed to support the recreational legalization effort backed by Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom and expected to receive financial support from former Facebook President Sean Parker.

The campaign announced that a majority of the board of the Coalition for Cannabis Policy Reform has agreed to withdraw support for its preferred proposed measure, ReformCA, and that six board members have now formally endorsed the so-called Adult Use of Marijuana Act to legalize and tax marijuana.

The members include Richard Lee, the founder of Oaksterdam University in Oakland and proponent of 2010’s unsuccessful Proposition 19 legalization effort; Neill Franklin, executive director of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition; Stacia Cosner, deputy director for Students for Sensible Drug Policy; Nate Bradley, executive director of the California Cannabis Industry Association; and David Bronner of Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps, a top-selling brand of natural soaps.

The Newsom-Parker effort has been working to forge a united front in an effort to avoid potentially competing measures on next fall’s statewide ballot.