A 9-year-old Canadian cashes in on the long lines for pot -- and sells out her Girl Scouts cookies [View all]

A 9-year-old Canadian cashes in on the long lines for pot -- and sells out her Girl Scouts cookie supply

https://www-m.cnn.com/2018/10/19/world/canada-cannabis-girl-sells-cookies-trnd/index.html?r=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F

By Andrea Diaz, CNN

Updated at 5:20 PM ET, Fri October 19, 2018

Elina Childs is just 9 but her entrepreneurial skills are on point.

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(CNN) — Canada legalized recreational pot this week and its dispensaries weren't the only ones with a business plan. A Girl Scouts Brownie -- and budding entrepreneur -- knew exactly where her best sales would come from.

Elina Childs, 9, stood outside an Edmonton dispensary Wednesday and sold all her cookies to those enduring 4-hour lines during the country's first day of legal marijuana sales.

In the past, Elina has sold her cookies door-to-door and that took weeks, her dad said.

"Last year, she got bit by a dog, it wasn't bad but we were still apprehensive," dad Seann Childs told CNN.

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