Billionaire Charles Koch's Movement To Legalize Cannabis | Features | Forbes
Billionaire Charles Koch's Movement To Legalize Cannabis | Features | Forbes
Charles Koch, billionaire and devout libertarian, is known for spending a fortune on political causes but is now actively funding efforts to end federal marijuana prohibition. Here’s why pro-pot advocates in both parties are high on his support.
Although Koch isn’t big on consuming it himself, he’s going public now with a long-held belief: Cannabis should be legal nationwide. So he’s putting his name, and nearly $25 million of his $45 billion fortune, to influence criminal-justice reform and legalization by the end of 2021. Brian Hooks, Koch’s right-hand man, says that a good barometer to gauge what Koch and his network are eventually willing to spend is what they’ve already put toward these issues—some $70 million in total over the last two years.
“It should be the individual’s choice,” says Koch from his office in Koch Industries’ sprawling granite compound in Wichita, Kansas. “[Prohibition] is counterproductive. It ruins people’s lives, creates conflict in society and is anti-progress. The whole thing never made sense to me.”
Further Reading: https://www.forbes.com/sites/willyakowicz/2021/07/27/billionaire-charles-koch-on-why-cannabis-should-be-legal/?sh=eef2e214a735
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Home growing needs to be protected
Please make It legal #Legalize_Brazil people being killed by organized crime
I really hope this is him trying to attone for his sins for what he helped create
NINETY THREE PERCENT of us believe medical marijuana should be legal. So what do the democrats do? Go for FULL ON LEGALIZATION, despite the fact that the president has already said he’s against it. They should have put forth a bill for Medical, which Biden has already said he supports (and should have already done something about unilaterally), and brought it to the floor for a vote. I’d LOVE to see politicians forced to vote on this when 93 percent of Americans support it.
They DON’T WANT it to pass. That’s why they brought such a HUGE BILL forward, because they know it won’t pass.
YES
Well a broken clock is right twice a day, his clock on cannabis is right!
Bullshit puff piece paid for by the koch Bro’s lol but whatever atleast donate $5billion to the cause if you really bout it Charles! #Put5onit
You’ve really skipped around a more plausible explanation for his desire to legalize. I wonder what the greedy business man has to gain? I highly doubt any of your arguments for a benevolent business man pushing for criminal justice reform could be backed up with quotes.
4:20 eh. nice one. 😉
Lets be blunt with Montel Williams. Montel speaks with the service connected veteran owners of Freshly Baked Company a social equity cannabis micro company.
https://youtu.be/KBhN1-nJ5ck
One too go
no
If it doesn’t benefit the people in power then what is their incentive to make a change? We already know that political class of people aren’t held to the same standard by the criminal justice system. Prohibition basically has no effect on them so why change anything when all it surmounts to is a reduction of power for them?
A smart man ! Richard Jr.
Omg keep the Koch brothers away from weed please..
Kind of sad the rich elites run this country now.
i dont know if i should laugh or what!!! 25million of his 45billion is like driving down the street just to say hi, do you really care… NO, not really!?!
Best way to become a trillionaire ? Sell drugs.
News flash, cannabis is a plant. It grows wild all over the world from the bush of Australia to the tundra of Siberia. Humans have been using it for thousands or years. Stuffing it our pipes, making saves or ingesting it without the approval of big brother. Harry Anslinger paved the way, Nixon followed suit along with Reagan to influence world drug policy and make it illegal. Before you know it people are being killed and their lives ripped apart because someone didn’t approve of them personally using a plant. Over 100 years of cannabis criminalization a disconnection from the natural world and now look at us, making arguments in a virtual world hoping it makes a difference.
The vídeo has 4:20. Nice.
This is big news. Crazy it’s not being talked about. It will take money to legalize marijuana. The money has historically been tied up in lobbying to keep it illegal. Maybe that will change and it will finally happen. A shame it had to happen this way but that’s the way of the world.
Koch for prez!!!!
Charles I pray and thank you for what you do towards legalizing Cannabis.
These are exactly the kind of people the cannabis industry does not want. These are the kind of people that kill the truth essence of legal cannabis. Kinda wish it never became legal.
Cannabis too? Branding common household items are not enough.
I’m glad we have the Devil himself on our side.
He wants it legal ?
This guy getting involved says that the public are going to get screwed over.
About time he does something night before going to meet his maker..
He helped create the monster Republican Party today so hey.. it’s only fair
Charles Koch is worth $45 BILLION. Why wouldn’t he donate a couple BILLION to get cannabis legalized?
LEGALIZE IT FEDERALLY ALREADY END CANNABIS PROHIBITION NOW
Does anyone know a way (or even a possible way) to get in touch with him?
Count me in: Im never taking those pills again. Doesnt matter if I become 40kgs and get seizures all day and Shake from anxiety all the time.
Koch’s control fertilizer industry. I’m assuming that’s the reason they want to legalize cannabis.
Legalize medicinal and recreational cannabis already please! I’m ducking republican in SC nobody is against it!
He is aiming too high. Sounds good. When you criminalize something that is widely used, people don’t stop using it. His vision is still far from reality, but it is doable, I believe.
Cannabis legalization takes the excuse politicians have to build a police state. Reform would also take police excuses for robbing and beating people on American roadways. Any politician who doesn’t want to stop this injustice should be thrown out of office.
F the Koch bros. File an injunction against the federal govt. Urge your local overlord to make it nationwide.
He just wants to be the monopoly of the weed industry
Koch brothers are still the LITERAL WORST no matter what they try to legalize