{"id":1799,"date":"2013-06-08T19:00:30","date_gmt":"2013-06-08T19:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.420magazine.com\/?p=1662"},"modified":"2013-06-08T19:00:30","modified_gmt":"2013-06-08T19:00:30","slug":"former-microsoft-manager-has-big-ideas-about-marketing-retail-pot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/former-microsoft-manager-has-big-ideas-about-marketing-retail-pot\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Microsoft Manager Has Large Ideas About Marketing Retail Pot"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/former-microsoft-manager-has-big-ideas-about-marketing-retail-pot\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p>Former Microsoft manager Jamen Shively really wants to produce the first national make of retail marijuana and also to open pot do business with Mexico. Shively intends to announce might more inside a Thursday news conference he states will feature Vicente Fox, the previous leader of Mexico.\u00a0\u201cLet\u2019s go large or go back home,\u201d Shively stated. \u201cWe\u2019re likely to mint more riches than Microsoft with this particular business.\u201d\u00a0He\u2019s obtaining medical-marijuana shops in Washington and Colorado, he stated, and intends to end up being the leader both in the medical and adult-leisure pot marketplaces. He sees the marijuana market as the only person of their size by which there doesn&#8217;t exist just one established brand.<\/p>\n<p>He and Fox intend to announce an offer for controlling the trade of marijuana backward and forward nations, he stated.<\/p>\n<p>Some particulars from the trade agreement continue being exercised, for example ways to get around worldwide rules forbidding legal pot, Shively accepted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have no idea exactly how that might be done, however i know it\u2019s been completed in other industries,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>Alison Holcomb, primary author from the state\u2019s legal-marijuana law, stated Shively faces an enormous obstacle within the federal government\u2019s prohibition of marijuana.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaving a national chain of marijuana-based companies isn&#8217;t just clearly counter towards the existing prohibition, but additionally counter towards the government\u2019s expressed worry about business growing too big,\u201d stated Holcomb, drug-policy director for that ACLU of Washington.<\/p>\n<p>But Shively, 45, compared the government prohibition towards the Berlin Wall and stated it\u2019s falling apart, with less defenders every single day.<\/p>\n<p>Also, he stated he\u2019s produced a method to shield traders from federal government bodies in the Investments and Exchange Commission.<\/p>\n<p>And, he suggests a venture this dimensions are too large to function recklessly and take a risk \u2014 for example directing legal pot to black marketplaces \u2014 that the us government is most worried about.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we\u2019re about is which makes it very professional and getting the greatest quality and efficiencies,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s say the feds would come after him?<\/p>\n<p>Shively paraphrased Obi-Wan Kenobi. \u201cHe stated \u2018Darth, should you strike me lower I&#8217;ll be effective than possible.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If she were Shively\u2019s attorney, Holcomb stated, she\u2019d advise him to see the so-known as Cole memorandum in the U.S. Department of Justice. It \u201cexplicitly pointed out an issue with procedures including 1000&#8217;s of plants and countless dollars\u201d and it is proof of the government anxiety about large pot companies.<\/p>\n<p>Shively, though, appears undeterred. He&#8217;s become almost evangelical about pot and it is benefits, designed for medical patients, for example his father that has cancer of the prostate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve just fallen deeply in love with the guarana plant,\u201d he stated. \u201cEspecially within the medical realm I\u2019ve gone from entrepreneur to advocate to activist, seriously.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shively labored at Microsoft six years, he stated, coupled with the title of corporate strategy manager. He stated he\u2019s been smoking pot for any year . 5.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.420magazine.com\/gallery\/data\/1412\/Shively.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>News Hawk- Truth Seeker\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.420magazine.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">420 MAGAZINE \u00ae<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: seattletimes.com<\/p>\n<p>Author: Bob Youthful<\/p>\n<p>Contact:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.com\/flatpages\/services\/contactus.html?from=stnv3\" target=\"_blank\">Services  Dallas Occasions Newspaper<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Website:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.com\/html\/localnews\/2021075621_potshivelyxml.html\" target=\"_blank\">Former Microsoft manager has large ideas about marketing retail pot  Local News  The Dallas Occasions<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Microsoft manager Jamen Shively really wants to produce the first national make of retail marijuana and also to open pot trade&#038;#8230 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.420magazine.com\/2013\/06\/former-microsoft-manager-has-big-ideas-about-marketing-retail-pot\/\" class=\"read_more\">[Find Out More]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1597,9,1,3],"tags":[4165],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}