Businessman tries his luck at building pot brand

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Businessman tries his luck at building pot brand

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/businessman-tries-luck-building-pot-brand-164306258.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/R1V6CrciNNqYhTOp7Nlbxw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/5b5a733d4b2a0b14350f6a706700bf16.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="Thomas Jun, a part-owner of Northwest Patient Resource Center, a medical marijuana dispensary, poses for a photo Sunday, June 9, 2013, in Seattle. Jun says he is walking away from the company he helped found because he fears its agreement with Diego Pellicer, a company seeking to create the first national commercial brand of marijuana, places those involved at risk of federal prosecution. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)" align="left" title="Thomas Jun, a part-owner of Northwest Patient Resource Center, a medical marijuana dispensary, poses for a photo Sunday, June 9, 2013, in Seattle. Jun says he is walking away from the company he helped found because he fears its agreement with Diego Pellicer, a company seeking to create the first national commercial brand of marijuana, places those involved at risk of federal prosecution. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)" border="0" /></a>SEATTLE (AP) â€" For the activists who led the effort to legalize recreational marijuana in Washington state last fall, Jamen Shively was one of their biggest fears: an aspiring pot profiteer whose unabashed dreams of building a cannabis empire might attract unwanted attention from the federal government or a backlash that could slow the marijuana reform movement across the country.</p><br clear="all"/>

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