This Guy Wants to Become the Steve Jobs of Weed

Davis Clayton Kiyo hoped to go down in history as the disruptor of pot culture. Things were going well. Until the cops showed up.

Davis Clayton Kiyo—high-school dropout, serial business owner, former weed dealer, current cannabis entrepreneur—is showing off his latest venture: a head shop that looks nothing like a head shop.

It’s minimalist and monochrome, lined with bright glass cabinets beneath a flat-screen TV that loops a slickly produced ad for his pot-paraphernalia product line.

The place is called the Fogden by Myster, “Myster” being the parent company under which Kiyo is seeking to redefine the marijuana enthusiast’s image for the more socially acceptable age of pot in which we now live—to alter it from smelly, dreadlocked hippie to, in his words, business-class, gainfully employed “successful stoner.”

Thus the shop’s sharp design and sleek products, which you could say recall an Apple store, or at least a place...

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