Former Barclays banker ‘invests in marijuana farm’

The financier, who left Barclays in 2009, is among backers of an investment fund that has acquired land in California to set up a marijuana business, said the people, who asked not to be identified as the stake isn’t public, reports The Independent.

The venture may seek to capitalize on the outcome of the state’s November vote on whether to legalize and tax recreational pot use. Jenkins didn’t return calls to a phone number listed under his name in Malibu.