One of the important entrepreneurial lessons that a troop of Girl Scouts learned this week is that marijuana is a gateway drug for Girl Scout cookies.
We take you to San Francisco where a local Girl Scout troop made a bet with a marijuana dispensary to see who could get the most money for a fundraiser. The troop sells their Thin Mints, Samoas (Sorry, I don’t recognize them Caramel deLites), and Do-si-dos (Sorry, I don’t recognize them as Peanut Butter Sandwiches). Apothecarium dispensary sells weed. They can go hand in hand. The Girl Scouts were fundraising for the Kindergarten to College (K2C) program, a college savings charity. Whoever lost the bet would have to bake cookies for the winner.
The Girl Scouts won! Now the weed dispensary will BAKE cookies for the young girls, and technically both parties will have baked.
The strange relationship between Girl Scouts and weed spots started in 2014 when a 13-year-old Girl Scout Danielle Lei started selling cookies in front of medical marijuana dispensary The Green Cross. In just two hours, she sold 117 boxes, 37 more than they sold the next day when parked outside a grocery store. Location. Location. Location.
Troop mother Carol Lei said the location provided a valuable teaching moment for her girls. “It was a great experience for me to bring my girls in front of a dispensary and have that conversation about drugs and people may be different and have certain needs,” said Lei.
Don’t forget the other important teaching moment: Nothing sells like addictive drugs, whether it be chronic or Thin Mints.
[Fortune]