Loosing of legal restriction is legalization at a limited level. You're parsing words here and by your standards smoking and drinking beer are not legal because there are restrictions on them like for example children cannot use them.
You've got Soros and NORML and the MPP and the DPA and all these outside pro-marijuana organizations funding and organizing these state measures
If Soros was just funding this one issue and not trying to wreck the U.S. economy (which he is by among other things shorting oil futures and driving up the price of gas), I would not much problems with him.
I'm parsing words? It you mean decriminalization instead of legalization, then I suggest you say so. Am I supposed to read your mind?
Decriminalization is simply a reduction of the penalty for simple marijuana possession. It is still illegal.
Alcohol and tobacco are legal and regulated by the state.
"If Soros was just funding this one issue ... I would not much problems with him."
That's not the point. Soros is free to fund whatever he wants.
The point is that Soros and the other national groups are going into a state to conduct their million dollar propaganda campaigns to influence the vote on marijuana issues. Your claim is that "the people" of the state are speaking out via these referendums. Not exactly true.