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Let Girl Scouts Sell Cookies Outside Weed Stores, You Squares

Weed is officially legal in California as of this year, and everyone from Mike Tyson to the Girl Scouts are getting in on the action. Last weekend, an intrepid young Scout on a mission to move cookies posted up outside of a cannabis shop in San Diego to sling Samoas, and sling she did—according to the girl's father, she wound up selling more than 300 boxes in just six hours, ABC 10 reports.

Seeing as how a box of Girl Scout cookies runs upwards of $5 these days, the girl wound up making roughly $1,500 over the course of the afternoon, about $250 an hour. It's unclear how much money Scouts usually make peddling cookies on average, but it seems like this ingenious girl's plan to cash in on the green rush worked out a little better than going door to door.


The dispensary, Urbn Leaf, posted an Instagram photo of the Girl Scout on Saturday, telling its followers to "Get some Girl Scout Cookies with your GSC today." News of the girl's sales quickly spread around the internet, with people praising her brilliance and business savvy.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/zmwv5j/let-girl-scouts-sell-cookies-outside-weed-stores-you-squares-vgtrn