The dispensary went under owing $300,000 across their entire vendor roster. As the buyer, he was told to call 40 people and tell them they weren't getting paid.
He quit on the spot. Then he went to both dispensaries, pulled all the Green Dog off the shelves and out of the vault, took the Gold Drop carts and a topical from a vendor named Canicare, double bagged it, and walked out. His words: call the cops, beat my ass, I'm leaving with this.
He called Drew in tears. They owed him 30 bands. He got 22 of it back in product. That single move is why, a year later, Drew offered him 10% of the business and a spot on the market.
He also gets into the harder lesson that came after: the partnership that nearly folded the company. Why starting a brand with your homies is one of the worst things you can do, how share-everything turned into eat-what-you-kill, and what happens when some partners are risking everything and others are doing water changes and getting lunch. Plus the test his stepdad taught him for whether someone should be a partner at all: knowledge, time, or money, and if they only bring one, that's a loan, not a partnership.
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