The $37 billion NZ Super Fund said it won't invest in companies involved in the recreational cannabis industry.
The move, announced on Monday evening, came on the eve of Parliament debating a bill to legalise medicinal use of cannabis.
The NZ Super Fund, which is New Zealand's giant sovereign wealth fund designed to help pay for NZ Super for tomorrow's pensioners, started the moves to exclude recreational cannabis in September before the Labour-led government assumed power.