9. Richard Branson
The serial entrepreneur and founder of the Virgin Group invested in Sidecar, a ride-hailing and on-demand delivery service. Sidecar promises to deliver medicinal marijuana from local dispensaries in San Francisco to patients’ homes in under an hour.
“Drugs are more available than ever before, and it’s become abundantly clear that the only way of protecting our families and friends from the worst impacts of illegal drugs is to take back control of the market,” says Branson. “That’s what regulation does quite effectively. Either we put responsible government agencies in control of the market or we leave it in the hands of gangsters.”