Apple backs federal marijuana legalization efforts through App Store - Forbes
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The company with the highest market cap in the world, Apple (AAPL
-1.0%), is backing efforts to legalize marijuana on the federal level, according to Forbes.
Writer Robert Hoban wrote that the support was made clear over the summer as part of the Apple's (AAPL
-1.0%) decision to allow marijuana delivery companies in its App Store.

Several sections of Apple's (AAPL
-1.0%) App Store Review Guidelines deal with services involving cannabis, noting that they apply to legal entities only.
Last month, Amazon (AMZN
+0.5%) said it was supporting a Republican-sponsored bill backing federal marijuana legalization.