the view from pineapple hq: vol 2

pineapple shirt weed show badge

When we last left off I was feeling that what's next heavily. It's July 2019.. after Camden the post show glow has worn away and the admittedly minor weed charges hung over my emotions for about a week until I was able to talk more with my lawyer whom I can not thank enough. 

As I wrote in my July 2019 blog "starting my medical marijuana journey" I'd never sought to get my medical marijuana card until after my arrest but obtaining it did in fact lead to my charges being dropped. Looking back now as they say hindsight is 20/20. Had I not been arrested I likely would not have found my best marketing partner Veriheal. Furthermore I likely would not have turned the stoopid weed website into something more than just another side project. So I do want to say thank you to all of you who clicked my links and got your NJ Medical Card with their help. I really do appreciate this support. 

Around that time because of the support I was seeing. I poured more of my effort into the njlegalize.me site. Making sure I stayed up with all of the New Jersey Marijuana Legalization News and Information and keeping everyone informed. Regularly updating the NJ Medical Marijuana Doctors and Dispensaries directories ... it's been a blurry three + years on this journey .. but now we time travel once again within this story *poof* now it's February 2020..

Still so hopeful for the new year ahead.. but so blissfully unaware of what is about to come and change everything for everyone. Earlier that month I got a message on twitter from @javierhasse (thank you) that I'd won tickets to this Cannabis Conference in Boston later that month. It was in two weeks and it was on a Wed and Thursday 6 hours from home but my beautiful loving and supportive wife and family juggled our schedules and we made it work. The catch was I'd have to leave NJ early Wed and then return around midnite Thurs. I saw this as a good opportunity for me. I usually don't attend these types of events because they're pricey. I believe the ticket I had won was priced around $400.

Now I'm not looking to open a dispensary and although I'd like to learn I don't know how to grow good weed. To be fair as much as you may like this moderately popular twitter account and website it's solid and means the world to me but it's not a huge following. I am surely just another outsider and not an insider. You might like me but there's plenty who don't or won't and that's ok. I'm not Jerry Seinfeld obsessing over whether or not everyone likes me. So this weed show it's not quite my kind of party but I wanted feel it out and my mission was to look for the stoners. I opted not to go over the top and eschewed the Pineapple suit for the Pineapple shirt.

I was up early and left right at 4:20 early shift on time departure. For some odd reason I took the Palisades pkwy. I'd always wanted to drive that road but never did. It was still dark at that hour so I didn't get to take in any scenic views. As I made my way into NY state then onto the Merritt pkwy thru Connecticut and now into Massachusetts it was nearing 9AM oh snap you can buy weed at a store in Mass? Huh how bout that. You don't need a card either. Huh. Ok I pulled over at the next rest stop to plot where I stop at on the way into Boston. Found a store called Good Chemistry in Worcester that opened soon enough and according to this handy receipt in my Google photos I bought 1/8th Purple Durango, 1/8th Lemon Skunk and some gummie edibles. Bing bang boom and I'm back on the road.

Got to Boston just in time to get checked in. Puff a quickie. Setup my snack station. Then I made moves down to this conference. It was interesting to see all the suits and the Patagonia vests. I wore neither. I looked for anyone that wasn't wearing a suit and those were the people I wanted to talk to most. Sorry suits. The conference was interesting at times but really most of the talks didn't really spark anything for me it was making the connections that did. I talked to just about anyone who'd lend me their ear. There was free food. I ate the edibles repeatedly. By the time that evening session rolled around I met this guy who ran the book booth he was cool why can't I remember his name? was it Mark? We walked outside and shared a J (before times or was it?) and I headed back up to my hotel room.

I met another stoner in the elevator and actually delivered an elevator pitch. I was wiggling my way into this weed biz. So I thought at the time. Back in my room later that nite I grabbed 5-6 weed related domains with a new project in mind for each of them. Just like this website I would build them all from scratch develop an audience profit all that jazz cabbage. The next day more conferencing more connecting but in my mind the gears are turning fast. It's like 4D chess but only I'm playing. I left the event a bit early. I'd talked to too many people. On the drive home my mind raced with thoughts about what the future may hold. It was 2/20/2020. I remember clearly that I was back home at 11:52 PM the family was sound asleep. I was wired for another hour or so from the night coffees but late that nite I went to bed like all of us not quite knowing what the next year would hold for us all.

Soon Gobert would test positive for the 'rona. President Silver would shut down the league and the rest of the country followed suit.. any thoughts or dreams I had that day had been dashed from my memory until this blog post today. For the next yearish til now I've had to put all those projects on hold. Time is a flat circle but that doesn't make more of it. Sadly too I wasn't always able to keep the directory pages here up to date but my family and client's needs came first. I was lucky to be able to make things work by juggling my schedule home schooling became my main focus for much of 2020. My family means the world to me and has hard as 2020 was here at times it was a blessing to have that extra time together even as stressy as it was. As things are ever so slowly returning normalish I'm looking closely now at what needs to get cleaned up here and back at those mothballed projects too. I'll be on it over the next few weeks.

I hope you'll stick around to find out what's next for that pineapple guy..

Til next time. 

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