View from the North 40: In the end, the lessons proved to be good

February must be a month to revisit topics because I’m back with marijuana-infused news, this time home-grown here in the U.S. and as wholesome as a Girl Scout working the annual cookie sales gig.

Last week I reported on two Canadian cops who allegedly took marijuana from a drug bust, then proceeded to get very allegedly high — like panicked enough to call for help, but too messed up to explain the problem high and so high the problem turned out to be the other uniformed officer was hiding in a tree.

But a 9-year-old Girl Scout in Southern California, where marijuana is legal for one and all who meet age and height requirements, showed the world how to handle pot consumption.

You profit off it.

No, she did not sell the pot. She parked herself outside a San Diego dispensary called Urbn Leaf and sold cookies to the people using the marijuana.

The unidentified girl accompanied by her dad sold more than 300 boxes of cookies in six hours, the dad said, presumably to sate any snacking urges from the consumption or other usage of the Mary Jane.

It’s like that saying from the 2005 animated movie “Robots”: “See a need, fill a need.”

Alison Bushan, a spokesperson for Girl Scouts San Diego, told KGTV that the girl did not technically violate any official Girl Scout codes of conduct. Official booth sales at businesses don’t start for a week and until then the Scouts are allowed to walk around selling them while accompanied by an adult.

“If that’s what they say they were doing … then they were right within the rules,” Bushan said.

Fortunately for the Scout, sales were given a dramatic boost when the marketing director for the dispensary took the girl’s photo outside the shop and posted it on Instagram, writing “Get some Girl Scout Cookies with your GSC today until 4pm!”

Fox News reported that the GSC referenced in the caption is a strain of cannabis named “Girl Scout Cookies.”

This particular Girl Scout wasn’t the only one with this genius idea. A 13-year-old member and her mother made headlines, and some good sales, outside a San Fransisco dispensary in 2014 when marijuana was legal only for medical purposes in California.

In case you think this sales tactic is more of an infraction than a display of entrepreneurial smarts and that it reflects badly on the California Girl Scouts, then you should take heart from a Hemet, California, Girl Scout who proved in the same week that the state’s Girl Scouts are being taught the right lessons.

When Hemet police tried to pull over a motorcyclist Thursday of last week, the LA Times says, the guy sped away and at some point during the pursuit he tossed something to the side of the road. The cops lost the guy momentarily, but found the motorcycle parked with a tarp covering it outside a home.

That the bike was covered so soon after being driven that the hot engine was causing the tarp to smoke, which kind of drew attention. But officials didn’t think this was enough of a smoking gun to get an arrest to stick, so they went searching for whatever it was he had thrown out.

Turns out it was a package of just-purchased Girl Scout cookies with a thank-you note and the Scout’s contact information in case the buyer wanted more cookies. Police found the Scout, she ID’d the customer, and that was good enough for government work so the guy got busted.

It is unclear if the motorcyclist mistakenly assumed he had bought the notorious GSC and was trying to unload the contraband, but in the end, he got nabbed after wasting a perfectly good package of innocent thin mints.

That should be a crime in itself.

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