ForbesBillionaire Charles Koch On Why Cannabis Should Be Legal
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
57% : Last summer, Angelos reached out to Koch to see if he wanted to work together to support marijuana legalization and the Cannabis Freedom Alliance was born.53% : "Marijuana, as I understand it, is less addictive than alcohol.
52% : In June, Amazon announced that it will lobby in support of cannabis legalization, and as other companies including Altria, Brink's, Molson Coors launched a think tank to propose federal policy, suddenly, it seems, marijuana legalization is no longer a neo-hippie cause carried on by the likes of NORML (the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws).
50% : More than anything, Koch sees marijuana legalization as the beginning of the end of the federal war on drugs.
47% : So he's putting his name, and nearly $25 million of his $45 billion fortune towards criminal justice reform and legalization efforts.
45% : "If you don't like marijuana, or don't like people doing that, and you have all these laws, how's that working out for you?" he asks, before making his second point.
40% : The only time the 85-year-old CEO of Koch Industries has consumed marijuana, he says, was by accident in the 1980s.
40% : Jarrett says that the criminal justice reform would not have passed without Koch's support. "...
38% : Valerie Jarrett, who was a senior adviser to President Obama, worked with Holden on legislation to reduce mandatory minimum sentencing for non-violent drug offenders.
33% : Koch told Holden to launch a campaign to fight for criminal justice reform and work with President Barack Obama to fight for Angelos' early release.
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