Can David Boies Legalize Weed?

The lawyer who helped make same-sex marriage a constitutional right is ready to end the U.S. government’s war on cannabis. It’s not about red or blue states, it’s about serious green.

he man who says he will legalize cannabis in America is sitting in his Manhattan corner office on the 20th floor of 55 Hudson Yards, staring at the river below. A wine refrigerator hums in the background and a two-foot-tall bronze statue of a Boy Scout, hat in hand, peeks over his shoulder.

“We represented a few gay Boy Scouts—the Boy Scouts is a private organization and they continued to exclude gays from leadership positions,” says David Boies, chairman and managing partner of Boies Schiller Flexner, and one of the country’s most fearsome litigators. “We challenged that under both federal and state law and forced them to change. A couple years afterwards, the Boy Scouts gave me the Franklin Roosevelt Award.”

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