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MOUNT LAUREL, NJ — A local Girl Scout troop has discovered what snack food executives, drive-thru architects, and anyone who has ever owned a couch already knew: cannabis customers will purchase cookies. Many cookies. All the cookies.
Girl Scout cookies being sold outside a pet store. Same thing. (Drmies/wikimedia)
The troop recently set up a booth outside Daylite Dispensary, Mount Laurel’s first legal cannabis retailer, in what owner Steve Cassidy described as a connection between snacks and cannabis that no longer requires pretending that it doesn’t exist. The statement marked the first time a New Jersey business owner has officially acknowledged a biological process discovered independently by every college dormitory since 1971.
Cassidy said the partnership was initially rejected by Girl Scouts of Central & Southern New Jersey back in 2024, though neither party would clarify whether the concern was optics, liability, or the very real possibility that Thin Mint inventory would not survive first contact with the customer base. The council eventually approved a trial run this year, presumably after someone ran a financial projection.
The booth was positioned near the building’s exit door, which Cassidy noted created an interesting behavioral study: some customers skipped the marijuana entirely and went straight to the cookie table. Scientists have yet to determine whether this represents evolved shopping efficiency or simply outstanding decision-making.
“I don’t think five years ago we would’ve seen anything like this,” Cassidy said, apparently unaware that five years ago the same demographic was buying the same cookies from the same scouts in the same parking lots, just with more elaborate cover stories about why they suddenly needed to impulse-buy eighteen boxes of Samoas.
The troop offered the full product lineup, including Thin Mints, Caramel Delites, and whatever the peanut butter ones are called this year. Cassidy emphasized that the dispensary serves “the community and our neighbors,” which is technically true in the same way that a hospital cafeteria serves “people who are already here anyway.”
Girl Scouts of Central & Southern New Jersey did not respond to requests for comment. The troop itself declined to speak with reporters, which is either appropriate media caution for minors or the most understandable case of “read the room” in history.
The scouts will return to Daylite this Friday from 5 to 7 PM, a time slot that Cassidy called “really cool” and that anyone familiar with dispensary traffic patterns would call “prime time.”
No word yet on whether the troop has adjusted their sales projections, though several parents were seen updating spreadsheet formulas in the parking lot and high fiving each other.
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