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Why Amazon is ramping up its push for legalizing marijuana

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/01/26/why-amazon-is-ramping-up-its-push-legalizing-marijuana/


A few excerpts of interest.

“This is not an issue that Amazon would normally engage on,” Brian Huseman, Amazon’s vice president of public policy, told me during an interview Tuesday. 

 

 

Legalizing pot could also open the door to a lucrative new market for the online retailer. But Huseman said Amazon is not interested in selling pot.
 

“There are no plans to sell cannabis and that is not why we’re doing this or being involved in this debate,” he said.

Instead, he said, their focus in pushing for legislation is to remove hiring impediments, which Amazon has found disproportionately impact individuals of color. “We realized that it was a hindrance to our ability to hire employees,” he said.

They’re hoping to nudge other corporations into following Amazon’s suit, too.

“We hope and we think that other large employers in this country should take the same position that we're taking on this, that they should also use their resources to lobby for federal legalization and expungement,” Huseman said. “It’s the right thing to do.”