Straight-edge punk rocker cum radio host Henry Rollins has been announced as the keynote speaker at San Francisco’s upcoming International Cannabis Business Conference on Friday February 17, the organisation has announced.
Despite being staunchly anti-drug and not a dope smoker, Rollins is known for his support of the pro-cannabis movement. He attended the first High Times Cannabis Cup to be held in a recreationally legal state (Denver on April 20 2014), and has spoken out many times in favour of weed.
“I don’t think there is a ‘cannabis culture’, any more than there is a ‘tobacco culture’,” he wrote about the Cannabis Cup for Westworld. “Cannabis consumption is not a fringe-element interest. Some might like to think it is, but that’s just prejudicial bullshit, intended to prolong the myth that only deviants and other undesirables seek out the weed.”
“Like millions of Americans, I have no interest in smoking marijuana but can’t see any reason to keep someone of age from lighting up,” he wrote for LA Times in 2013.
San Francisco’s incarnation of the international conference also features NBA champion John Salley on the lineup. The event “will arm attendees with important knowledge about the California cannabis industry and business in general”.
