Americans Unlike Asia-to-Europe Investor With Pot to Guns
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Financial professionals in the U.S., birthplace of the Winchester rifle and Cheech & Chong movies, are far more comfortable with marijuana and gun companies than their peers in Europe and Asia, a Bloomberg Global Poll found.
Almost three-quarters of those surveyed in the U.S. said investing in pot-related companies was acceptable on moral grounds while only half in Europe and 35 percent in Asia were OK with them, according to a quarterly poll of 562 investors, analysts and traders who are Bloomberg subscribers. The percentages were similar for those who found it morally acceptable to invest in gun companies, the survey showed.