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applegrove

(133,102 posts)
Sat Oct 20, 2018, 08:56 PM Oct 2018

A 9-year-old Canadian cashes in on the long lines for pot -- and sells out her Girl Scouts cookies

A 9-year-old Canadian cashes in on the long lines for pot -- and sells out her Girl Scouts cookie supply

https://www-m.cnn.com/2018/10/19/world/canada-cannabis-girl-sells-cookies-trnd/index.html?r=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F

By Andrea Diaz, CNN

Updated at 5:20 PM ET, Fri October 19, 2018

Elina Childs is just 9 but her entrepreneurial skills are on point.

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(CNN) — Canada legalized recreational pot this week and its dispensaries weren't the only ones with a business plan. A Girl Scouts Brownie -- and budding entrepreneur -- knew exactly where her best sales would come from.

Elina Childs, 9, stood outside an Edmonton dispensary Wednesday and sold all her cookies to those enduring 4-hour lines during the country's first day of legal marijuana sales.

In the past, Elina has sold her cookies door-to-door and that took weeks, her dad said.

"Last year, she got bit by a dog, it wasn't bad but we were still apprehensive," dad Seann Childs told CNN.

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A 9-year-old Canadian cashes in on the long lines for pot -- and sells out her Girl Scouts cookies (Original Post) applegrove Oct 2018 OP
Well, duh! Bfd Oct 2018 #1
I bet she will get the most sold boxes reward. Doreen Oct 2018 #2
This story AGAIN? ghostsinthemachine Oct 2018 #3
I guess everyone can be an entrepreneur. Crazy how much business applegrove Oct 2018 #4
Good to see you posting again, applegrove True Dough Oct 2018 #6
What are they? applegrove Oct 2018 #8
Types of cannabis True Dough Oct 2018 #9
Never really liked cannabis. I've tried it less than a dozen times thinking applegrove Oct 2018 #10
She's a Girl Guide; their cookie sale season just started nt More_Cowbell Oct 2018 #5
Please, no one refer to that entrepreneurial little girl scout as a True Dough Oct 2018 #7

ghostsinthemachine

(3,569 posts)
3. This story AGAIN?
Sat Oct 20, 2018, 09:22 PM
Oct 2018

Seems every time theres legalization, some young girl sell cookies to the stoned, never mind that its not cookie season or not.

applegrove

(133,102 posts)
4. I guess everyone can be an entrepreneur. Crazy how much business
Sat Oct 20, 2018, 09:37 PM
Oct 2018

Last edited Sat Oct 20, 2018, 10:08 PM - Edit history (1)

has been created with this legalization. Old factory and empty factory sites are now legal grow ops all over.

applegrove

(133,102 posts)
10. Never really liked cannabis. I've tried it less than a dozen times thinking
Sun Oct 21, 2018, 12:03 AM
Oct 2018

I would have a better experience. I just get sleepy. I don't see any thrill in it.

True Dough

(27,310 posts)
7. Please, no one refer to that entrepreneurial little girl scout as a
Sat Oct 20, 2018, 10:09 PM
Oct 2018

sma_t c_ookie.

That terms should be verboten since Dolt 45 uses it regularly.

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