Richard Branson: ‘Fight to Legalize It’
Politics The latest in cannabis legalization including laws and policies, legislators’ views, election coverage, and more.
Billionaire and Virgin Group founder Richard Branson told attendees at a San Francisco cannabis conference this weekend that he was in the mood to “take a spliff or two”—and that most of the world is ready for legal consumption, too.
Referencing the work he’s done over the past five years on the Global Commission on Drug Policy, serving alongside former U.N. General Secretary Kofi Annan and other world leaders, Branson called for the decriminalization of drugs and for cannabis to be legalized worldwide.
“That’s the only way of sorting out the problems that come with drugs, [from] not regulating and leaving it up to the underworld to supply drugs,” he said. “Our commission has worked really quite hard on that. We’ve had some successes and some massive failures, we’re going to keep going until we get governments to see otherwise.”
Branson, who has stakes in about 20 different technology companies across the globe, said he would invest in legalized cannabis if he wasn’t serving on the U.N. commission.
“I certainly would be out there in this industry,” he said. “It has enormous potential with the ability to do a lot of good.”
Gage Peake
Politics Florida and Arizona Democrats are Backing Legalization
Cannabis 101 Consider the Spliff
Politics 13 Things You Might Not Know About California’s Prop. 64
The post Richard Branson: ‘Fight to Legalize It’ appeared first on Leafly.
by Gage Peake at Leafly
