Marijuana is the secret to Peyton Manning's success

Greg P. | 6:28 AM on September 19, 2014

Can marijuana pizza be far behind?

Peyton Manning said Colorado's marijuana laws have helped his Papa John's pizza franchises http://t.co/16uDDZ7Mgs

— Minnesota NORML (@MNNORML) September 19, 2014

Manning saw this coming, no doubt. He’s like the Warren Buffett of marijuana investments:

Peyton Manning bought a bunch of pizza franchises in CO right before they legalized pot. Genius. http://t.co/PhzlWqyGqr

— Ben Pershing (@benpershing) September 19, 2014

Peyton Manning knows pot is good for Papa John's business http://t.co/hfVHmk4nJT via @sportingnews

— janewells (@janewells) September 18, 2014

And Manning doesn’t seem to be joking. He gave the pizza-answer to the question, “Do you vote?” in an interview with Peter King of Sports Illustrated:

Yeah, I do vote. I have voted ever since I’ve been eligible to vote. It’s not a simple process when you go in there. There’s always a little more that goes along with it. In Indianapolis, there’s a Jewish Community Center right near my house, and so… Yeah, I don’t do it just to do it. You try to know who you’re voting for. I was good friends with the Governor of Indiana, Mitch Daniels, who’s now the president of Purdue. Probably could have been President of the United States. You try to get to know them. I’ve gotten to know some of the folks here in Colorado. There’s some different laws out here in Colorado. Pizza business is pretty good out here, believe it or not, due to some recent law changes. So when you come to a different place, you’ve kind of got to learn everything that comes with it.