Marijuana’s big-money Marley Brand makes a splash

The subsidiary of Seattle-based Privateer Holdings is met with few tough questions, showing what a difference a year makes
Seattle Weekly News (US)
Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Last week, NBC’s Today Show giddily announced an exclusive: Privateer Holdings, the Seattle marijuana company long acclaimed locally for its straight, corporate image and Ivy-League-educated bosses, was launching “the first global pot brand” based on the legacy of Bob Marley. The company is likely to start selling pot overseas, says Privateer public-relations director Zack Hutson, previously a spokesperson for Starbucks. “We’re in discussions with a distributor in Israel” – a country with a federally legal medical-marijuana system. Hutson also cites Uruguay and the Netherlands as potential early markets.