When I was 19 years old, TruGreen Lawn and Landscape in Ankeny Iowa offered me an awesome job. I had to take an IQ test and a knowledge test, and after the first round of interviews they pulled me into a room.
TruGreen told me I had broken their company record with the highest scores on both knowledge and IQ that they had ever seen, and that combined with my references and work history they were skipping all candidates and offering me the job. The first words out of my mouth, at age 19, was “I have a criminal drug record.”
TruGreen’s hiring dude told me that that might be a problem with corporate but he wanted me still. He said he wanted me to work there and that I would make a good salary. It was a huge opportunity for a kid who had just been kicked out of college for using marijuana to treat his bipolar disorder.
When the background check came back, I was denied the job offer. My aunt, an Ankeny police dispatcher with fake tits, and fake love, told me at the time, “I don’t think you’ll ever amount to anything.”
That was when I decided to become a pot advocate.
I no longer talk to my family on the advice of my halfway house director, three therapists, and my conversations with God, as well as two ex-girlfriends.
The last thing my aunt said to me, by the way, was an offer to buy me a one-way ticket to Colorado, the message being, get out of Iowa, nobody wants you here with your weed shit. After my job reversal due to my background check she told me I’d never amount to anything…now, I help sell you people marijuana by the millions, legally, and am glad to have seen you for what you really think you are.
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