Editing Bob Arum (section)

==Cannabis advocate==
Arum, who appeared as corrupt [[Drug Enforcement Administration|DEA]] agent "Stokes" in the 1975 film ''The Marijuana Affair'' at the behest of his friend, Jamaican-born boxing promoter, filmmaker, bookie, and horse-racing aficionado [[Lucien Chen]] (June 6, 1928 – December 16, 2015), has advocated for the decriminalization of [[cannabis]]; and, in a 2017 interview, stated that he had started smoking it in 1966, declaring, "Cannabis is good for you! It's these damn people during the [[Nixon administration]] that really put cannabis into the position where it was a drug like heroin and cocaine and that was wrong" and adding that "in a lot of ways, marijuana is better for the athlete as pain medication than the drugs.”<ref>[https://www.cbssports.com/boxing/news/bob-arum-credits-marijuana-as-the-secret-to-his-longevity-for-50-years-in-boxing/ Campbell, Brian] "Bob Arum credits marijuana as the secret to his longevity for 50 years in boxing — The Top Rank chairman, one week shy of turning 86, spoke out on the benefits of cannabis", CBS, November 30, 2017. July 27, 2018.</ref> In a 2017 ''VICE'' interview (which erroneously reports film producer Chen as Shen); Arum was also quoted as saying, "I think the [[NFL]] is gonna revise its policy on marijuana and I think everybody should. It was the Nixon administration that demonized marijuana, to the real harm of a lot of people, particularly people who have terminal cancer. Marijuana can be a very therapeutic thing."<ref>[https://www.vice.com/en/article/how-bob-arum-wound-up-in-the-marijuana-affair-a-70s-movie-about-weed/ Erdman, Corey] "HOW BOB ARUM WOUND UP IN ‘THE MARIJUANA AFFAIR,’ A 70S MOVIE ABOUT WEED", FIGHTLAND BLOG, ''VICE'', April 20, 2017. Retrieved July 27, 2018.</ref>