Delta9 and CannabisCoin will go down in the crypto history books as one of the most blatant examples of pre-mine theft.
How can you steal from your own creation?
Whether it is ethical or not, it's him who spent the money to build that grow facility and it's him who created the coin, he stole from no one.
I'm sure the majority of Microsoft shareholders could care less 30 years later that Bill Gates and Balmer lied to IBM and bought DOS for a few thousand dollars and flipped it for millions.