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Is it just me or does he look like Rick Steves' long lost son?...lol...
url: hMPp://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ex-microsoft-manager-eyes-national-pot-brand-article-1.1357879
These days, former Microsoft manager Jamen Shively is thinking different.
Shively will hold a news conference with former Mexican President Vicente Fox on Thursday during which he will propose legal marijuana trade between the two countries, as well as the first national brand of pot in the U.S.
“Let’s go big or go home,” Shively, who worked at Microsoft for six years, told The Seattle Times. “We’re going to mint more millionaires than Microsoft with this business.”
Sensing that there is more than a few bucks to be made from the emerging legal marijuana market, Shively has been buying up medical pot dispensaries in Washington state and Colorado.
“I’ve just fallen in love with the plant,” Shively told the Times. “Especially in the medical realm I’ve gone from entrepreneur to advocate to activist, seriously.”
One day, Shively said, he hopes to be the leading retailer of medical and recreational marijuana in the U.S., but getting to that goal may not prove so easy.
“Having a national chain of marijuana-based companies is not only explicitly counter to the existing prohibition, but also counter to the government’s expressed concern about business growing too large,” Alison Holcomb, primary author of Washington’s legal-marijuana law and drug policy director for the state’s chapter of the ACLU, told the Times.
Shively’s instinct that the legal marijuana trade presents a potentially lucrative business opportunity is certainly not crazy, however. Eighteen states have legalized medical marijuana, and 11 others now have pending legislation on the matter.
Yesterday, the state of Colorado became the first place in the world to fully regulate the use of recreational marijuana. Gov. John Hickenlooper signed two bills into law that will bring the state an estimated $24 million in tax revenue next year that it will use for public school construction.
For Shively, the key to making sure his marijuana business thrives is quality.
“What we’re all about is making it extremely professional and having the highest quality and efficiencies,” Shively said.
Former Microsoft manager proposes national mj brand, robust trade with Mexico
These days, former Microsoft manager Jamen Shively is thinking different.
Shively will hold a news conference with former Mexican President Vicente Fox on Thursday during which he will propose legal marijuana trade between the two countries, as well as the first national brand of pot in the U.S.
“Let’s go big or go home,” Shively, who worked at Microsoft for six years, told The Seattle Times. “We’re going to mint more millionaires than Microsoft with this business.”
Sensing that there is more than a few bucks to be made from the emerging legal marijuana market, Shively has been buying up medical pot dispensaries in Washington state and Colorado.
“I’ve just fallen in love with the plant,” Shively told the Times. “Especially in the medical realm I’ve gone from entrepreneur to advocate to activist, seriously.”
One day, Shively said, he hopes to be the leading retailer of medical and recreational marijuana in the U.S., but getting to that goal may not prove so easy.
“Having a national chain of marijuana-based companies is not only explicitly counter to the existing prohibition, but also counter to the government’s expressed concern about business growing too large,” Alison Holcomb, primary author of Washington’s legal-marijuana law and drug policy director for the state’s chapter of the ACLU, told the Times.
Shively’s instinct that the legal marijuana trade presents a potentially lucrative business opportunity is certainly not crazy, however. Eighteen states have legalized medical marijuana, and 11 others now have pending legislation on the matter.
Yesterday, the state of Colorado became the first place in the world to fully regulate the use of recreational marijuana. Gov. John Hickenlooper signed two bills into law that will bring the state an estimated $24 million in tax revenue next year that it will use for public school construction.
For Shively, the key to making sure his marijuana business thrives is quality.
“What we’re all about is making it extremely professional and having the highest quality and efficiencies,” Shively said.
