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"Shively, a former Microsoft corporate strategy manager, acquired two medical marijuana franchises in Colorado and Washington and sees the acquisitions as springboards for a national distribution – if and when other states approve recreational use of weed.
He is looking for investors to help raise the $10 million in start-up money he says he needs, and envisions getting his marijuana from Mexico. Former Mexican President Vicente Fox, a supporter of legalizing marijuana, accompanied Shively at the news conference Thursday in Seattle. Shively didn't mention the thousands of acres already growing in th West."
