Detox Day 30: Can Pot Shops Be the Basis for a Business Plan?

Bridget Jones’s Update of Clean Detox Day 30 or Day 17: BMI: Didn’t get a chance to weigh myself this morning, but my guess is that it’s holding.  Activity Level: Haven’t worked out, actually went to the doctor today. Meditation: If stewing for over an hour waiting to see the doctor, then, yes, I did meditate. Brief Observations: I am having a real debate as to when I should officially “quit” the hardcore detox and start incorporating other foods. I may quit this Sunday, as I’ve been invited to a dinner party. My stop day is Monday. There’s a real internal squabble raging.

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So I’ve been dizzy, nothing new if you’ve been reading the past few blogs. Real vertigo, roll over and see  everything in nauseous triplicate. After 5 days, and lots of ideas from  my friends on the  Clean Detox web site, My.CleanProgram.com, I decided to call in the Calvary in the form of my primary care doctor, Dr S.

Outside of the horrendous wait in his office (which I guess had to do to a patient emergency, so I won’t go into it great detail, though I did tweet about it.) Dr. S diagnosed a viral infection in my inner ear, wrote out a prescript for Antivert and TheBetsy was on her merry way.

Sometime during the day, perhaps while I was waiting, I found this great clip of Friday’s episode of Jimmy Kimmel the Ellen DeGenereous:

I find him delighfully hysterical. I mean who can forget his former girlfriend Sarah Silverman’s special “present” or his thoughtful, articulate and beautifully choreographed  thank you note? Both hot, searing pieces of funny.

So back to Jimmy K on Ellen. At one point on the clip, Jimmy offers his theory on the present-day cupcake craze and the thousands of storefronts dedicated to those delicious delectables  that have popped up in the last few years.

The growing popularity of medical marijuana shops.

Brilliant.

(Plus I love cupcakes, my favorite new one is THIS.)

So, strapping on my marketing and entrepreneurial cap, I thought, “This could be some kind of GREAT business and marketing plan.”  Though I don’t know how one would pitch to the more uptight money men. It’s not like you can say you want to tie your business to existing medical marijuana shops. But crazier has happened.

Tying a new business to an existing, successful one isn’t new. Jamba Juice co-located it’s stores right next to Starbucks, with Starbuck’s blessing, as it being a somewhat complementary fit. Breakfast might be a coffee for one, while their boyfriend might want a Jamba Juice smoothie. Close by, both needs could be satisfied easily. Starbucks has even used co-locating strategies regionally, offering coffee to bank customers, etc.. The Canadian chain Tim Horton’s located many stores near Canadian military bases.

So it’s not so far off to think Cupcakes to munchie-inducing medical Marijuana shops. Or doughnuts for that matter. Hooter’s (their chicken wings are killer.) Pizza. Fried Chicken. Ice Cream.

Even a Jamba Juice.

It will only be a matter of time, if it hasn’t happened already, before a business is based (overtly or not,) to the proximity of these legalized smoke shacks.

What else can we think of…?

Links to Items Featured on TheLiquidBetsy:

My.CleanProgram.com

Potlocator.com- they even have an iPhone App!