Plans Announced for Retail Marijuana Business, But Few Details Revealed Bob Young - The Seattle Times
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Ex-Microsoft exec plans marijuana brand (Dawn.com)

Vicente Fox, former president of Mexico, praised local entrepreneur Jamen Shively’s vision for a legal pot business reaching across the U.S. and perhaps beyond its borders.

But in a Seattle news conference Thursday that was long on ambition and short on specifics, Shively seemed to retreat from earlier statements that he wanted to open up legal marijuana trade between Mexico and the United States.

Calling Shively’s plans for a national brand of legal marijuana a “game-changer,” Fox said in Seattle that he‘d much rather sit next to the former Microsoft manager than Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, Mexico’s most notorious drug warlord.

“It’s time for a new start, a new vision. That’s why I applaud this group,” said Fox, who heads a think tank operating out of his presidential library and said he is not involved in Shively’s business venture.

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