Remember George Zimmer, the Men's Wearhouse founder who kind of looks like the Dos Equis man and the one who always said "You're gonna like the way you look, I guarantee it?" Yeah, that guy. As in, not George Zimmerman. After being ousted from the company he founded, he got back in the game with zTailors, a start-up that bills itself as the "Uber for tailors."
Normally, you'd think getting canned by the company you built with your bare hands and being forced back into the careless, unfeeling world to find your own two feet again after decades of corporate cushiness would be suuuper stressful, but good thing for Mr. Zimmer, he's got his own way of dealing with his grown-up problems.
"I've been smoking marijuana on a regular basis for about fifty years," he says in an interview with CNBC. Before sarcastically remarking, "As you can see, it's really impacted me in a negative way."
And Zimmer's not just a client—he's an advocate! He drops knowledge about how he feels on cannabis' schedule 1 status that places it in the same class as "real" drugs, like heroin. He regards the criminalization of marijuana as "the biggest con that's been perperated on this country in the last century."
As a certified business man and business, man, Zimmer also has ideas on how legalization should go.
“I think it’s important that we protect limited home cultivation without any government licensing, so whether it’s one plant or 10 plants, I don’t know, but I think that’s very important,” he says to CNBC.
