SEATTLE — Washington state businessmen who say they’re trying to create the first national brand of marijuana received some heartfelt support Thursday from the former president of Mexico, Vicente Fox.
Fox appeared at a news conference in Seattle, where he recounted how the war on drugs has ravaged his country and praised the states of Washington and Colorado for voting to legalize the recreational use of marijuana last fall.
At the news conference, former Microsoft manager Jamen Shively discussed his plans to launch a new marijuana brand named for his great-great grandfather, Diego Pellicer. He says his company is joining forces with a Washington state chain of medical marijuana dispensaries run by John Davis, the Northwest Patient Resource Center, as well as dispensaries in Colorado and California.
Shively’s planned investment will total $100 million over three years, according to the Stranger.
"This historic step today is to be observed and evaluated closely by all of us, because it is a game changer," Fox said. "I applaud this group that has the courage to move ahead. They have the vision, they are clear where they’re going, and I’m sure they’re going to get there."
Fox, a former Coca-Cola executive who was Mexico’s president from 2000-06, specified that he’s not involved in the venture. He appeared at Shively’s invitation. The two first met 13 years ago, when a company Shively used to run was opening a computer center in Sinaloa and Fox appeared at the inauguration, Shively said.
Shively described grand visions for his pot brand – hundreds of millions of dollars in investments, tens of millions of customers, more than 1,000 jobs just at Diego Pellicer’s Seattle headquarters.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/31/marijuana-chain-brand-jamen-shively_n_3366704.html
"Your as mighty as the flower that grows the stones away"
As cool and promising that it sounds, can a Microsoft mngr, be trusted for ANYTHING? :weedspin
Now if we can only get big Bill in on this to throw in some of his pocket change, we may be able to scrounge up enough money to make this happen. :popcorn:
In GOD we trust, all others we monitor – ‘Merika
Actually, big business/big pharma/big oil run this country. If Microsoft gets behind this, there is real promise for actual law changes. I am 100% behind this, because if this goes we will all be in a position to grow our own! Pot prohibition will be over brothers and sisters!
Why the fuck would people want this? People know there money in this but people seem to not care who supplies your dope as long as you can get it. Pretty soon corn feilds will end up gmo ran with shitty plants that all be the same.
There will always be a market for high-end, organic, specialty strains and growers.
just like Micro Brews, people can buy Anheiser-Bush products, but when I was drinking I chose Sammy Smith’s Taddy Porters and Oatmeal Stout’s.
I wouldn’t even touch a Miller.
The more money gets dumped into legal cannabis the better.
We need to get the GOVERNMENT ADDICTED TO THE TAX REVENUE.
Then it’s all over for prohibition for good.
"Your as mighty as the flower that grows the stones away"