California Stoners Feed the Needy In Exchange For Weed

[Hellsbells]

At Soquel pot dispensary, giving and ganja go hand in hand

SOQUEL -- Nancy Black, called Granny Purps just like the pot dispensary she owns on 41st Avenue, is known for her palate-pleasing recipes for brownies, cookies and other treats containing medicinal marijuana.

This holiday season, however, Black and co-owner Phil Hicks demonstrated that their recipe book also includes the secret ingredient to bringing in outsized donations for the Second Harvest Food Bank holiday food drive: a complimentary joint.

For every four cans of food they donated to Second Harvest, patients received one pre-rolled marijuana joint, with a maximum of three per day.

"We had experience with Second Harvest because my husband is a retired chiropractor, and we use to collect donations from his patients at his office," Black said. "We used to do some sort of incentive to encourage people to donate, and so we decided to do the same thing here to get momentum."

In all, Granny Purps handed out 2,000 joints to dispensary clients and collected 11,000 pounds of food, a large and exceptional contribution for a business of its size.

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[Robynne]

See, even stoners have good hearts

[walkingeagle]

No doubt that Granny runs a business that caters to this group, but is she a stoner? I don't see any mention of that in there.

[62julietandvoid]

That's a great idea and that's cheap weed, probably good stuff too!

[Hellsbells]

I wonder how many food pantrys were cleaned out because this .

[62julietandvoid]

I wonder how many food pantrys were cleaned out because this .

- lmao

For 4 cans of food a joint, I'd keep those pantries stocked! It's one hell of an idea.

[Obsolete]

So pretty much (in my opinion) hundreds of people (probably low income) went to one food bank and accepted free food, then turned around and donated it to this food bank so they could get free weed? Yea, that makes total sense.