Here’s a story from our friend and colleague in the World of Prevention, Monte Stiles…
If anyone needs additional evidence of how the pot culture is impacting our youth, please look at the following article about selling Girl Scout cookies in front of a Portland pot shop. Make sure to carefully look at the pictures and see how the pot shop took advantage of this little girl’s business idea.
This shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone. Legalization has consequences, and the states that have embraced the use and commercialization of pot are powerful examples of what we are doing to kids. Monte Stiles
Smart Girl Scout rolling in dough after selling cookies outside Portland pot shop
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
February 23, 2016
Smart Girl Scouts – like this enterprising Portland trooper – know where to get the green.
She’s one smart cookie.
An enterprising Girl Scout was rolling in dough after selling boxes of cookies outside of a Portland pot shop on Saturday.
The irresistible packages of Thin Mints, Samoas and Tagalongs were stacked on a table in front of the Foster Buds Marijuana Dispensary with a sign reading, “Satisfy Your Munchies” scrawled in purple marker.
The anonymous little trooper was with her aunt, who said stoners swarmed their table just minutes after they set up shop.
Location, location, location: A successful San Francisco Girl Scout sold 117 boxes of cookies outside a medical marijuana dispensary in under two hours.
“The Girl Scouts organization said they don’t condone this, but it’s not against the rules,” she told KATU-TV.
Her scouting niece, who hoped to sell 35 boxes to raise money for a summer trip to horse camp, agreed: “It seems like people are happy we’re here.”
WAVE-TV later reported the girl and her aunt easily surpassed her 35-box goal.
The beloved baked goods are an easy sell for customers with the munchies.
A spokesperson from the Girl Scouts of Oregon and Southwest Washington wasn’t ready to give the toke shop a merit badge.
“If a minor cannot enter a premises unaccompanied, she should not sell Girl Scout Cookies in front of the premises,” the scouting group told KATU in a statement.
The pickin’s good in states like Oregon and Colorado that have legalized cannabis.
The caution might have been warranted. When the girl and her aunt showed up on Saturday, the pot store posted a picture on its Facebook page with the caption, “The Girl Scouts are outside doing their thing selling those delicious cookies we all know and love.”
Then the store went further, offering an eighth of an ounce of the newly christened “Farmer 12s Girl Scout Cookies” weed for anyone who brought boxes of the baked goods.
Customers must be at least 21 to buy, possess or use legalized recreational marijuana in Oregon.
Cannabis use has been linked with an increased appetite for sweet and salty snacks, including chocolate chip cookie dough, Twinkies, Funyuns and midnight tacos.This isn’t the first time a savvy scout has banked on potheads for some extra green.
Danielle Lei and her mother sold 117 boxes in just two hours in February 2014 after setting up outside the Green Cross medical marijuana dispensary in San Francisco.
The shop even posted a “Most Interesting Man Alive” parody on its Facebook page at the time that read, “I don’t always buy Girl Scout Cookies / But when I do, I buy them from the genius outside the Green Cross pot dispensary.”
In both cases, the Girl Scouts were likely influenced by a seminal episode of “Friends,” when Ross (David Schwimmer) helped a scout sell 517 boxes of cookies to stoners outside an NYU dorm.
“I am selling cookies by the case,” Ross said. “They call me, ‘Cookie Duuude!’”