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2/6/2018

One Sharp Little Cookie

Filed under: General — Dana @ 1:54 pm



[guest post by Dana]

If you’re currently worn out from the ongoing saga that is #MemoGate and hating politicians in general, here’s a little diddy for you: You may not be aware that cannabis became legal in California last month. And you may not be aware that frequently after smoking pot one develops a raging case of the munchies. Goodies must be secured and devoured. Tapping into this nascent market of cookie monsters, a clever strategy was employed by one little Girl Scout and her father who made a killing selling Girl Scout cookies outside of a marijuana dispensary:

The girl and her father, both who remained unidentified, told ABC 10 News that they sold 312 boxes over the span of a few hours for two days during the Super Bowl weekend. Travis Rice, a reporter for 10 News, posted video of the girl and her father with a cart full of cookie boxes outside the dispensary.

Word of the Girl Scout cookies sales outside Urbn Leaf, a recreational marijuana dispensary near Mission Bay, spread after the business posted a photo on Instagram.

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Unfortunately, the inevitable buzzkill came when a Girl Scout official questioned whether it was permissible for the Girl Scout to sell in a “commercial” area:

Officials were trying to identify the girl and talk to her family because she was in a commercial area, which is not allowed, council spokeswoman Mary Doyle said in an email Monday.

When asked if Girl Scout cookies are allowed to be sold outside marijuana dispensaries, representatives for Girl Scouts San Diego said there are rules in place for cookie sales outside businesses.

Girl Scouts can set up booths to sell cookies outside a business only if they get the proper permit from the business owner and only if it is done between Feb. 9 and March 11, said Mary Doyle, the organization’s communications director. The dispensary is not an approved site for booth sales, she added.

However, given that Girl Scouts are allowed to sell from wagons when accompanied by a parent and this little girl was selling from a wagon and her father was with her, Alison Bushan, of Girl Scouts San Diego determined that “they were right within the rules”.

As officials of the Girl Scouts of San Diego debate whether the little girl broke the rules or not, it’s instructive to note that when a similar situation like this occurred in Northern California in 2014, a Girl Scout official wisely determined that such decisions should be left up to the parents:

To date, we have not attempted to list either “permitted” or “prohibited” locations and have relied on parents and volunteers to make wise decisions for their girls,“said Dana Allen, Director of Marketing and Communications of the Girls Scouts of Northern California, the region Lei belongs to. “As always, we evaluate our policies and procedures at the end of each cookie sale and will consider whether further guidelines will be beneficial regarding booth site selection.

(Cross-posted at The Jury Talks Back.)

–Dana

85 Responses to “One Sharp Little Cookie”

  1. It’s funny that California, which obsesses about leading the country in being physically fit and eating healthy foods, might eventually become a fat state because baby boomers took up smoking pot now that it’s legal. Snarfing down every snack food in sight when the munchies hit isn’t a good thing when one’s metabolism has slowed down.

    Dana (023079)

  2. Its already a fat state if you read VDH…what it will be doing is enabling the full caucasians (Anglo is too narrow a term, but thats from a Chicago boy) to catch-up.

    urbanleftbehind (5eecdb)

  3. my experience is that California isn’t particularly thin really

    it’s infested with childhood obesity in particular – especially in the low quality public school system what’s been largely colonized by chubby illiterate dreamers

    colorado and idaho are pretty thin

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  4. I’ve always found it incredibly amusing that the same liberals who want to ban GMOs, trans fat, eating meat, super big gulps, high fructose corn syrup, and any other non-organic, non-vegan food…. are the same idiots that think legal weed is a great idea.

    Edoc166 (44edbb)

  5. Don’t want to get into a homestate war here, but Colorado girl scouts were selling cookies outside the dispensaries years ago when Colorado first legalized weed. And at my favorite beach bar on sunny weekend afternoons this time of year the girl scouts come along pulling their little red wagons loaded with cookies, and they always find a whole bunch of willing customers. They must be trained to prey upon the weak.

    JVW (dadb0c)

  6. Well, unlike the great most of you I AM A CALIFORNIAN, and i take exception to you’re bigotted mischaracterization of our….

    What’s that?

    M,m,m,m,m,m,m cookie!

    papertiger (c8116c)

  7. You want to live forever?

    papertiger (c8116c)

  8. Okay. Now I got beef.

    papertiger (c8116c)

  9. because baby boomers took up smoking pot now that it’s legal.

    Baby boomers INVENTED pot.

    Kevin M (752a26)

  10. They didn’t. Reefer Madness was released in 1936.

    Kishnevi (ea0f8c)

  11. You just better not be an foreigner.

    Sammy Finkelman (02a146)

  12. Are they made from organic, free-ranging, vegetarian, cage-free, pesticide-free, hormone-free, gluten-free, non-GMO Girl Scouts?

    nk (dbc370)

  13. Yes, those evil cookie pushers must be stopped at all cost

    crazy (d99a88)

  14. We stopped buying GS cookies years ago after seeing the TV feature about how much the corporate office spends on itself plus the whacky lefty politics they advocate.

    Easy decision.

    harkin (8256c3)

  15. Baby boomers INVENTED pot for white people.

    Fixed 🙂

    Dave (445e97)

  16. They didn’t. Reefer Madness was released in 1936.

    Hyperbole. Until the 60s, pot was a devil drug used only by bad people. Like heroin.

    Kevin M (752a26)

  17. Yes, Dave has it less hyperbolic. The boomers accepted pot (and other drugs) into mainstream culture. Not necessarily a good thing, but the idea that they’ve just discovered pot (#1) isn’t even close to being true.

    Kevin M (752a26)

  18. La Cucaracha, La Cucaracha
    No puede caminar.
    Porque no tiene, porque le falta
    Marijuana a fumar.

    The dirty hippies brought it into white bread American culture. Dark people, from all over the world, from Asia to black America to the Caribbean to Latin America have been using it for centuries. Where do you think the word assassin comes from?

    nk (dbc370)

  19. The Beat culture and folkies back in the late 50s/early 60s were big proponents of teh weed. They were the obnoxious folks who would hang out in clubs or coffee houses and snap their fingers instead of applauding when watching young Bob Dylan, Peter, Paul and Mary, teh Kingston Trio, rat bastard Pete Seeger, Mort Saul, etc.

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  20. If they’ve legalized weed, what about hash oil?

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  21. Destroying brain cells and getting FAT!!! eating Girl Scout cookies. The cultural decline is unremitting and undeniable.

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  22. Oh good grief these people are insane, like a,certain Alaskan stoner who harassed a seven year old girl

    In this case it’s probably agita no one else had

    narciso (d1f714)

  23. Thought of it first.

    narciso (d1f714)

  24. OT: Congratulations to SpaceX on the first launch of Falcon Heavy, sending a Tesla to pass by Mars.

    Launch sequence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbSwFU6tY1c&t=1750s (watch until +8:00)
    Tesla view: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UO3h4FBLWqY

    Kevin M (752a26)

  25. Exhibit A: a tax stub of indeterminate age for what I assume by the exorbitant rate per gram is medical marihuana (spelt with an “h” to stick finger to Mexico).
    If it were brought by brown people originally (debatible) then Whitey was an eager customer.

    papertiger (c8116c)

  26. Congratulations? For junking cars into space?

    nk (dbc370)

  27. For the first privately funded interplanetary mission with a rocket that costs 1/10th the price of a rocket NASA hasn’t built yet.

    Kevin M (752a26)

  28. I remember when pot was $5/oz. Not that I ever smoked any.

    Kevin M (752a26)

  29. NASA would have used a concrete block and paid $17 million for it.

    Kevin M (752a26)

  30. The argument that Edward Epstein used in agency of fear, this was back around 1975, that pot was in demand among a certain demographic, ahem

    narciso (d1f714)

  31. Holy reenty batman. They shot a rocket into space and the primary boosters returned to the launch pad landing neat as pins!

    How can you be blase about that?

    papertiger (c8116c)

  32. 28
    I was a cheapskate. When I did inhale (wink wink) the bongs and maryjane always were provided by my friends and hallmates.

    Kishnevi (f60e29)

  33. primary boosters returned to the launch pad landing neat as pins!

    Well, the third one crashed, but still, it’s kinda like spiking the ball.

    Kevin M (752a26)

  34. Did you know that pot was utterly legal in California on December 31, 1974?

    They were changing the law to make pot possession an infraction, and some nitwit repealed the old law at 11:59PM December 30th.

    Kevin M (752a26)

  35. I remember when pot was $5/oz. Not that I ever smoked any.

    What’s the old saw? If you can remember the ‘60’s, you weren’t there.

    AZ Bob (f60c80)

  36. Pot is like the lethe potion which was in the form of a cookie in the Percy Jackson series.

    narciso (d1f714)

  37. The 60s? I remember… I remember being a sophomore in high school and walking up to my book locker and finding a joint inserted in the hole where a padlock shackle would go. I was outraged and marched with that bad boy in hand right into the VP’s – Mr. Eberhard – office, placed it on his desk and told him what had happened. He gave me a slight smile and looked at me like I’d just returned from the planet Mars.

    Down the road, this interaction allowed me to escape punishment each time I was caught with my buddy ditching 3rd period on the far side of the athletic field on our way to the Tastee Freeze.

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  38. Slate
    @Slate
    How Rose McGowan’s anti-trans bias weakens her feminism:

    —-
    TwilightofLiberty
    @TWOLCOM
    Replying to @Slate
    Its amazing how cool you guys are with the patriarchy when it pairs a nice floral pattern and cute shoes with its 5 oclock shadow.

    harkin (8256c3)

  39. If they’ve legalized weed, what about hash oil?

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 2/6/2018 @ 6:05 pm

    And with that, I had a thought: remember those “this is your brain on drugs” ads? The ones where the egg was cracked into a frying pan? My question is, was hash oil used for the egg? Secondarily, is it anything like peanut or olive oil?

    Bill H (383c5d)

  40. Lol

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  41. It’s like linseed oil, Bill H. Cannabis is hemp, similar to flax.

    nk (dbc370)

  42. Congratulations to SpaceX on the first launch of Falcon Heavy, sending a Tesla to pass by Mars.
    Kevin M (752a26) — 2/6/2018 @ 7:02 pm

    Here’s hoping the batteries don’t “brick” on the way there……

    Bill H (383c5d)

  43. It’s like linseed oil, Bill H. Cannabis is hemp, similar to flax.

    nk (dbc370) — 2/6/2018 @ 8:37 pm

    It was just an off-the-wall thought. Sorta like if you step on an air or water hose, it becomes restricted. Will the same happen- considering that water is very often used as an analogy for electricity- if you step on an extension cord? (hint: obviously not)

    Bill H (383c5d)

  44. Leftie SJWs going out of their way to show their racism:

    “Student activists and community members helped to get a production of “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” canceled at an Ithaca, New York high school after a white student was cast in a lead role.

    According to the Ithaca Journal, five student activists wrote letters and put out a list of demands after a white student, who the SJW group concedes is a “a stellar actor, singer, and dancer,” was cast as Esmeralda. Additionally, black student, 17-year-old Maddi Carroll, quit the play after the white student was cast.

    “It shows you that theater wasn’t made for you,” Carroll told the Ithaca Journal. “And it shows you that, if you can’t get the parts that are written for you, what parts are you going to get?”

    In a letter that included a list of demands, the student activists demanded the high school girl cast as Esmeralda be removed from the role because, despite her talent, she’s the “epitome of whiteness.”“

    https://www.dailywire.com/news/26841/high-school-cancels-musical-amid-outrage-over-amanda-prestigiacomo

    harkin (8256c3)

  45. “It shows you that theater wasn’t made for you,” Carroll told the Ithaca Journal.

    Should have stopped right there. Pretty sure Victor Hugo (1802 – 1885) didn’t have her in mind when he wrote the part.

    papertiger (c8116c)

  46. What’s the old saw? If you can remember the ‘60’s, you weren’t there.

    I remember the colors. There were lots of them.

    Kevin M (752a26)

  47. Like one hundred thousand soldiers in a Trump military parade, I salute. That girl and her dad are great!

    noel (b4d580)

  48. Those soldiers had better salute too. Remember, just failing to clap is “treasonous”.

    Respect is a one-way street called Pennsylvania Ave.

    noel (b4d580)

  49. What’s your problem with our military, noel? Is there some reason a nice Veterans Day parade to bolster patriotism bothers you?

    Rev.Hoagie (6bbda7)

  50. Stick it, noel. Go troll a thread that’s already about Trump and leave this one alone.

    nk (dbc370)

  51. Praising dictators. Attacking the free press. Threatening protesters. Secret meetings with Russians. Accusing political opponents of treason for failing to clap. Forcing loyalty pledges on the highest law enforcement agencies and insisting that they investigate political opponents. Military parades.

    Keep it up Donald and some folks on here might start seeing a pattern.

    noel (b4d580)

  52. noel only wants parades with rainbow flags, Hoagie. He’s a “lifelong” Republican.

    nk (dbc370)

  53. 49.Those soldiers had better salute too. Remember, just failing to clap is “treasonous”.


    They damn sure better salute, they’re soldiers and Trump is C on C of the military. But you are correct in that when despicable, filthy leftists in congress don’t clap for America it isn’t treason. It’s just the anti American democrat pigs they are.

    Respect is a one-way street called Pennsylvania Ave.


    Pennsylvania Ave. is a two way street just so you know. Respect from democrats is one way, for the enemies of America.

    Rev.Hoagie (6bbda7)

  54. Has a Maher Stewart punk.

    narciso (d1f714)

  55. i love parades i hope the tatters throw candy

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  56. David French
    @DavidAFrench

    In the more than 16 years since 9/11 our military has-

    -Toppled the Taliban

    -Toppled Saddam

    -Defeated the follow-on AQI insurgency

    -Defeated the ISIS caliphate in Iraq and Syria

    -Endured years of grinding deployments while fighting with honor

    I’m fine with a parade.

    harkin (8256c3)

  57. nk criticizes me for not exclusively writing on topic. Lets look to see how far we have to go back to see where you did just that. Oh. There it is….. Comment 26.

    .
    That didn’t take long.

    noel (b4d580)

  58. nk says… “noel only wants parades with rainbow flags…”

    Try to stay focused, nk. That’s a whole other subject again.

    noel (b4d580)

  59. No, “lifelong” Republican. I criticized you for trolling about Trump in a hereto Trump-free thread.

    nk (dbc370)

  60. Hey nk…

    Sorry for mentioning Donald on your “Trump-free” thread.

    I suppose I can PRAISE Trump without you attacking me, saying I am off-topic or calling me gay? How about praise and clapping at the same time? That has got to be OK.

    noel (b4d580)

  61. How many films and TV programs tell us that’s a bad idea

    http://dailycaller.com/2018/01/02/tucker-reveals-20-pieces-of-advice-for-getting-through-2018-video

    narciso (d1f714)

  62. Rev.Hoagie says…. “What’s your problem with our military, noel? Is there some reason a nice Veterans Day parade to bolster patriotism bothers you?”

    We already have a Veteran’s Day?

    noel (b4d580)

  63. I suppose I can PRAISE Trump without you attacking me….


    You really don’t get the point, do you? You must feel compelled to introduce Trump into every thread for some reason. This thread has nothing to do with that. Do try and stay focused.

    And when you go on a CNNMSNBCNBCCBSHuffpo fueled rant like “Praising dictators. Attacking the free press. Threatening protesters. Secret meetings with Russians. Accusing political opponents of treason for failing to clap. Forcing loyalty pledges on the highest law enforcement agencies and insisting that they investigate political opponents. Military parades.” you convince no one of either your sincerity nor your supposed “Republican” pedigree. Tossing out a chain of unsubstantiated accusations and opinions solves nothing.

    So, why do you dislike our military? I’ll repeat from #50 “50.What’s your problem with our military, noel? Is there some reason a nice Veterans Day parade to bolster patriotism bothers you?”
    Perhaps this time you could answer the question without sounding like Chris Matthews.

    Rev.Hoagie (6bbda7)

  64. And Rev.Hoagie…. that parade isn’t about bolstering “patriotism”. Can you guess what it does bolster?

    noel (b4d580)

  65. Stop mincing around the issue, noel. Say it loud and proud.

    Colonel Haiku (1d71cc)

  66. Here’s how vulnerable many of these members are: Of the 23 Republicans representing seats that The Cook Political Report rates as “likely Republican,” 12 were outraised by at least one Democratic challenger in the most recent fundraising quarter. By contrast, only one Democratic member in the same “likely Democratic” position was outraised by a GOP challenger.

    Many of these newly targeted Republicans posted unusually low fundraising numbers. Ethically challenged Duncan Hunter of California brought in just $51,000 and only has $291,000 in cash on hand. Freshman Ted Budd of North Carolina posted less than one-third ($183,000) of the money that upstart Democratic challenger Kathy Manning did ($564,000). Dave Brat brought in just $137,000 in the quarter, and was outraised by two Democratic challengers in a suburban Richmond seat. Six of the 23 members in the “likely Republican” category didn’t even raise $150,000 last quarter, a low baseline for anyone facing a competitive race.
    https://www.nationaljournal.com/s/663767?unlock=K7AD9GMZK6Q7FZAL

    Ben burn (b3d5ab)

  67. Mobynoel

    Colonel Haiku (1d71cc)

  68. To be fair, if its within the confines of 4th of July (or as a route clearance maneuver pre-Boston Marathon for their Patriots Day) or Veterans Day, its fine. If Veterans day is third on my list, its because I’m going for a more historically parallel event to the Bastille Day parade that inspired Trump (that was an armistice day as opposed to call to arms moment). If its a random day one-off, it would seem to be wasteful and be attractive as day for enemies to strike either at the event itself or in areas near the bases the equipment and personnel are housed at.

    There’s considerable history behind the reluctance – the thought of a March through Washington has been coopted away from the sitting government through several non-violent insurgencies (various Marches since the 1960s, the Veterans March of 1932, the Unemployed Army march of 1894) and the very real threat during the Civil War of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia advancing across the Potomac.

    urbanleftbehind (5eecdb)

  69. I did not call you gay, noel. Don’t flatter yourself. I lived in an apartment overlooking Chicago’s Rainbow Parade route for twelve years. If only the “lifelong” Republicans it attracted were gay.

    nk (dbc370)

  70. BB, the House could be had by the Ds, but I could see it being a short 2-year/1-congressional term majority. Trump might like it that way as he ride the wave of discontent in 2020.

    urbanleftbehind (5eecdb)

  71. “Praising dictators. Attacking the free press. Threatening protesters. Secret meetings with Russians. Accusing political opponents of treason for failing to clap. Forcing loyalty pledges on the highest law enforcement agencies and insisting that they investigate political opponents. Military parades.”

    These are all publicly known views/events. Unless Fox and Friends is your only source for news, Rev.Hoagie. Which of these are you denying? (I will give you that it was Don Jr. that secretly met with the Russians.)

    noel (b4d580)

  72. Short window to garner some confidence from electorate urban, but yes they could screw the pooch. They always do.

    Ben burn (b3d5ab)

  73. O/T Interesting story which mentions Kimberlin, who seems to be a Zelig of sorts.

    http://www.weeklystandard.com/meet-the-men-behind-hillary-clintons-private-spy-network/article/901675

    Patricia (3363ec)

  74. EVERY thread should hound T rumpkins. Like the Iraq war you wish to forget, we will forestall your dementia/Alzheimers.

    Ben burn (b3d5ab)

  75. Decades of hounding wouldn’t be too much.

    Ben burn (b3d5ab)

  76. I am not a liberal. Not a leftist. Not even a “lifelong Republican” as you keep charging. (Close though, I became one when I was twenty.) And I was not in on the Kennedy assassination either. Although, if one of your would suggest that, I am certain the rest of you would fall in line. Too young actually. But hey….give it your best shot.

    noel (b4d580)

  77. Leftists are anyone on Genghis Khans left Noel. Goldwater Republicans are on teh Red Team too.

    Ben burn (b3d5ab)

  78. Yes, Ben burn. I noticed that. But some moderates get a pass. Ivanka, for instance.

    But it really isn’t conservative/liberal that matters to them. Its how loud they can clap.

    noel (b4d580)

  79. Wierdly, I don’t experience the munchies.

    But agreed that this is smart on the part of the girl scouts in question.

    aphrael (3f0569)

  80. In vaguely related news, a California high school kicked an 18-year old student off of the girls’ basketball team after resharing a tweet from Snoop Dog in which he appeared to be holding a joint in his hand.

    Her parents are suing, and Snoop Dog has publically invited them to get in touch with his lawyers.

    aphrael (3f0569)

  81. 61, 61, 64, and 61. Percentages of Americans in the latest polls who support decriminalization of marijuana. So, when it comes to tweets or Girl Scout cookies, lets get off their case. Even half of Republicans (like me!!!!) favor it.

    Could someone please inform GOP leaders…. and the Attorney General.

    noel (b4d580)

  82. So, a young girl with an organization partnered with an organization famous for killing babies in the womb (Planned Parenthood) sells her cookies outside a shop that sells drugs proven to harm and she’s celebrated as “clever”. I think she’s less “clever” than a product of exceptionally bad parenting. Somehow I doubt this kid knows dope = munchies and thought up the munchies = sales scheme. No wonder Dad doesn’t want their identity revealed. The whole thing disgusts me.

    Syllabucks (3fe8af)

  83. Well, the third one crashed, but still, it’s kinda like spiking the ball.

    Kevin M (752a26) — 2/6/2018 @ 7:41 pm

    The middle primary which makes sense. Middle one is in the toaster. Bound to get control modules baked. Maybe need to add asbestos.

    papertiger (c8116c)

  84. Love the concept, and screw the economics. Just for showmanship and style points.
    Sticking the landing.

    Even the Russian judge is going to give it an 8.0 (should have been a 10 but they’re Russian. What ya gonna do?)

    I support the decriminalization of girl scout cookies.

    papertiger (c8116c)


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