Men’s Wearhouse founder reveals how smoking marijuana for 50 years changed his life


george zimmer men's wearhouseGeorge Zimmer is lending his iconic, gravelly voice to the marijuana legalization movement. therichest.org
 
George Zimmer has a penchant for speaking his mind.
The 68-year-old serial entrepreneur was fired from Men’s Wearhouse, the company he founded 40 years earlier, in 2013 over differences with the company’s board.
“You know, one of the very small reasons — and I say small — would be that I tended to be kind of a renegade or somebody who said what he thought,” Zimmer told Business Insider about his firing. “That made the board of directors increasingly uncomfortable.”
Zimmer has since launched a tuxedo rental company, Generation Tux,and is channeling his candor into marijuana activism.
 
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