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# Smart Cookie: Girl Scout Sets Up Shop Outside Marijuana Dispensary

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by 

[Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/)


## Melissa Locker


Feb 21, 2014 4:55 PM UTC

by 

[Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/)


## Melissa Locker


Feb 21, 2014 4:55 PM UTC

You don’t need a MBA to know that the key to sales is to know your demographic.

That’s why Girl Scout Danielle Lei should earn a merit badge in business for setting up shop outside of a medical marijuana dispensary in San Francisco.

Lei sold 117 boxes of Dulce de Leches and Tagalong Girl Scout cookies during a two-hour stint outside The Green Cross pharmacy over Presidents Day weekend. [According to her mother](http://mashable.com/2014/02/20/girl-scout-cookies-marijuana/), Lei sold 37 more boxes catering to the munchies crowd than what she sold during the same two-hour period outside a Safeway store the next day, proving once again that when it comes to business it’s all about location, location, location.

“It’s no secret that cannabis is a powerful appetite stimulant, so we knew this would be a very beneficial endeavor for the girls,” Holli Bert, a staff member at The Green Cross, [told _Mashable_](http://mashable.com/2014/02/20/girl-scout-cookies-marijuana/). “It’s all about location, and what better place to sell Girl Scout cookies than outside a medical cannabis collective?”

No MBA or _Glengarry Glen Ross_ style motivational speech necessary for this smart cookie.

**MORE**: [‘Evil Elmo’ Admits Plot to Extort Girl Scouts](http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/09/20/evil-elmo-admits-plot-to-extort-girl-scouts/)

**MORE**: [Gluten-Free Girl Scout Cookies Coming to a Troop Near You](http://newsfeed.time.com/2014/01/29/gluten-free-girl-scout-cookies-coming-to-a-troop-near-you/)

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