Girl Scout sell cookies outside Marijuana Shop

[Brutal Peanut]

I found this story pretty amusing. She isn't using it, she's not unsupervised, this just seems like good business. I don't think there is anything to be scared of, or to find outrageous, in this situation. I've never met a dangerous pothead. In fact, they can be pretty damn boring. It's kind of interesting how scary marijuana is to some people. My father-in-law has done chew for years and drinks a crazy amount of coffee during the day but everyone just shrugs that off. I would rather my Oma had smoked or consumed some pot, rather than die of liver cirrhosis from excessive alcohol and prescription pill consumption at sixty-three. My uncle used pot to ease his pain while he was terminally ill. To me, it's just pot and it's just some kid selling delicious cookies to people who may or may not be under the influence of pot at the time of purchase.

You know what I do find outrageous? Thin Mints. I dislike mint and chocolate together. Trefoils, Do-si-does, and Samoas are the best. Oh mah gawd, Samoas.

 

[Multi-Hobbyist]

Man, there's just too many posts for me to reply to.
In short, I hope this was the beginning of a potential partnership. Seeing as how there is already a strain of cannabis named Girl Scout Cookie, it'd be an excellent way for the Girl Scouts organization to have sales outside shops from time to time. But what the girl did here, was cheat her way up the sales. It was an easy target, and good on her for seizing the opportunity. Should she get a badge for it? For the sales numbers, sure. But without some sort of stable exchange, it's a first come first serve basis for all the other girl scouts to do the same.
This drug is seriously not the reefer madness it was played out to be, nor is it anywhere near that level. Legalization cannot arrive soon enough, and the public cannot open their minds and allow it a chance soon enough. The revenue it will generate will help our sad, sad economy.
And remember most of all folks, the media is controlled by those with enough funds. The party against legalization will pay gobs for people to cover and focus on all the worst details and mishaps regarding the plant. But don't let that stop you from making your own, fully formed opinion utilizing information from all mindsets.

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

That's fucking genius, everyone wins! I don't really see anything immoral- as someone said, these are pot smokers, not crack addicts. I don't subscribe to the 'weed is the best thing ever and everyone should smoke it always' mentality, but it's really, really, no big deal. If the kids were smoking up then yeah, I would be uncomfortable with that, but this is just sensible.

 

[Auron225]

Haha! That's brilliant! I don't see the issue here; if I was in responsible for her then I'd probably want her there to have supervision of some kind but aside from that it seems fine.

 

[DaWaffledude]

This girl is going places. Mark my words.

 

[CrazyCapnMorgan]

[Insert your best munchies joke here]

OT: Smart young woman. Great business decision. And you know something, if people had listened to a certain comic about 20 years ago...

 

[tippy2k2]

You know what I do find outrageous? Thin Mints. I dislike mint and chocolate together. Trefoils, Do-si-does, and Samoas are the best. Oh mah gawd, Samoas.

I....I.....my brain....it is breaking.....it's like you divided by zero!!!!

Someone that DOESN'T love Thin Mints!?!? Does not compute...brain melting....

[small]I kid of course...kind of [/small]

Good sense of business that one. Let us hope she doesn't end up a victim of some sort. We are talking about potential pot heads here. Would be a shame for some pedo to get his jollies and know exactly where to find a child?

You got hammered a bit so I hate to jump on the wagon but...

All I've got to go on is that picture (since the name of the shop isn't listed and I can't read it in the window) but it looks to be a relatively busy public street. In fact, based on the picture, that place is probably safer than a lot of places I've seen the Girls setup (like a Wal-Mart parking lot or going door-to-door).

Scratch that, they named the place in the article (I thought "Green Cross" was the type of store but that's the name).

https://www.google.com/maps/place/The+Green+Cross/@37.729712,-122.430345,3a,75y,266.91h,91.02t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sPJ-hEhRhUxSS5OPuSCGVkw!2e0!4m2!3m1!1s0x808f7e89efb3bba7:0x39b7b43926dde91f!6m1!1e1?hl=en

(Note: I can't see it on the street view but according to Google, that is the location of this place).

It looks like any regular city street. If she was selling across from T-Jaxx selling weed from his pickup truck on the wrong side of the train tracks there might be an issue but this looks like any other store in any city across America.

 

[Zack Alklazaris]

Well that's just pure business genius. Someone give that girl or whoever placed her there a medal.

Absolutely agree!

And besides those cookies are practically a drug on their own. They get released so little in the year that when they finally do come it people buy it in bulk like a crackhead in withdrawal. I smoked off and on when I was in college and I'll be damned if their wasn't a time when I wouldn't of loved a box of thin mints in my hand.

Forget the medal, give that girl a scholarship to business school and put her on a marketing team.

 

[Kajin]

Smart kid, but I hope Girl Scouts penalize her in some capacity.

You hope that she gets punished for understanding supply and demand? On what grounds could they possibly penalize her anyway?

I get the feeling I was just particularly bitter when I wrote that. It feels inappropriate to me. She thought ahead, and I understand that, but it feels sort of slick to me, in a bad way. I guess when you are 8 or 10, I feel like she would have had to absorb that whole "Pot Gives you the munchies" thing from something she heard from a television show, or watched in a movie, or something an adult said in passing. It just makes me uncomfortable. Maybe I have a bug up my ass about it, but it's not nothing I hope other kids/groups/organizations try not to make a habit of doing, that's all I'm saying. It feels like cheating in some capacity.

I don't believe for a second that she was cheating and your accusations of inappropriateness are unfounded at best. Girl exhibited some brilliant business sense. She needs to be rewarded for it, not punished for it.

 

[Mik Sunrider]

My God ... brilliant!!! EA needs to hire this girl, right now. Clearly she knows what makes a successful business, know your customers and know how to market to them. On top of that, she gives her customers exactly what she promised them. Imagine that!

 

[T-004]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZczseYnlYZc

Article just made me think of this film for some reason....

 

[Leemaster777]

I... wow, that 13-year old is probably smarter than I am. I would have NEVER thought of something to diabolical and genius as that. Good on her.

Also, this seems appropriate:

 

[geK0]

She identified a target market and located her operations near an area that they gather; There's plenty of corporate CEOs that struggle to do the same (lol)

It's not much different from when I was pushing around an icecream cart at age 14 and made a visit to all the baseball/soccer practices and matches at the park (I made over $200 commission some days).

While I can understand the kneejerk reaction some people get with this story, I really don't think there's anything inherently wrong with what this girl is doing. It's actually quite clever for a 13 year old.

 

[Zipa]

Sounds like the scouts were just being business minded to me, supply and demand and all that.

 

[jklinders]

I think it's brilliant. isn't one of the medical batches of this stuff colloquially referred to as "girl scout cookies?" Double brilliant.

I had already heard about this. girl Scouts already weighed and said they were OK with it on the grounds that it is a legally operating clinic. I think that was a fairly level headed response. The parents were OK with it as well and these particular users are operating completely under the law. I think the majority of those who find objection to this are from the "pot is bad because reasons" crowd and they can be safely ignored until they can come up with an argument that does not spout from 1930s era propaganda.

Now not pot related but definitely Girl Scout Cookies related I bring you John Pinette.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftsFcQHv9Ik

Edit: Link only as I can't get the embed to work here.

 

[Tuesday Night Fever]

Brilliant. Honestly it's such simple genius that I'm surprised this isn't coming out of Colorado or Washington. What better place to sell cookies than outside of an establishment selling a product known to cause serious cases of the munchies?

I definitely applaud this girl.