Alison Ettel unintentionally became an Internet meme when she went through the motions (at least) of calling the police to complain about an 8-year-old African American girl selling bottled water \u201cwithout a permit\u201d on a hot day in San Francisco\u2019s South Beach neighborhood.<\/p>\n
Young Jordan Austin was selling water to Giants fans near AT&T Park when Ettel (who is white) came outside of her home office and threatened to call the cops. Jordan\u2019s mom, Erin Austin, filmed as Ettel seemingly made the call \u2014 although city police later said no call was actually received. Ettel can be heard saying the girl was \u201cillegally selling water without a permit.\u201d In one embarrassing moment, Ettel can be seen trying to hide behind a stoop from the elder Austin\u2019s camera as she seemed to place her call. Austin taunts that \u201cthe whole world gonna see you, boo.\u201d<\/p>\n
And it seems like the whole world has. The video went viral on the Internet, and Ettel was shortly identified. It emerged that she was CEO and founder of\u00a0TreatWell Health<\/a>, a cannabis business that specializes in cannabis oil for both pets and humans. According to a 2015 profile of the treatment in the\u00a0San Francisco Chronicle<\/a>, it has actually saved dogs suffering from arthritis<\/a> from being euthanized. Of course, California\u2019s medical marijuana law does not cover animals, and Ettel admitted to the Chronicle that her firm was operating on a \u201cdon\u2019t ask, don\u2019t tell\u201d basis.<\/p>\n Ettel later told CNN<\/a> that the girl had been shouting in front of her window for hours before the incident occured.<\/p>\n \u201cI should never have conforted her and I know that, but I did and I\u2019m embarrassed by that,\u201d Ettel said.<\/p>\n Derided with the hashtag #PermitPatty, Ettel found herself the subject of unflattering portrayals in places like the African American news and culture site\u00a0The Root<\/a>. Finally, the\u00a0Chronicle<\/a>\u00a0reported on June 26 \u2014 just three days after the initial incident \u2014 that several Bay Area dispensaries had announced that they will no longer carry TreatWell Health products.<\/p>\n Some dispensaries said they would donate proceeds from the remainder of their stock in TreatWell products either to Jordan herself or to non-profits for black girls. For instance, the\u00a0Berkeley Patients Group<\/a>\u00a0said profits from their remaining inventory will be donated to\u00a0Cinnamongirl Inc<\/a>, \u201can Oakland-based mentoring organization for ambitious girls of color.\u201d<\/p>\n Magnolia Oakland<\/a>\u00a0dispensary similarly said it would suspend sales of TreatWell products, and donate returns from remaining stocks to\u00a0Black Girls Code<\/a>, a San Francisco-based group that provides technology education for African American girls.<\/p>\n Finally,\u00a0TreatWell representative Cynthia Gonzalez said that Ettel had resigned from the company.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is Ms. Ettel\u2019s belief that TreatWell, its employees and patients should not have to suffer because of a situation that occurred in an escalated moment,\u201d Gonzalez said, according to a press release.<\/p>\n Jordan Austin, meanwhile, has been given enough money from supporters to go to Disneyland. Jordan told\u00a0Inside Edition<\/a>\u00a0she is \u201cextremely\u201d excited to go to Disneyland because she \u201chas never gone.\u201d<\/p>\n The #PermitPatty imbroglio follows the #BBQBecky<\/a>\u00a0affair in Oakland last month, when a white woman called the police to complain about a group of black folks grilling barbecue in a public park.<\/p>\n TELL US<\/strong>, have you been following the #PermitPatty story?<\/p>\n The post CEO of Bay Area Cannabis Firm Steps Down in \u2018Permit Patty\u2019 Uproar<\/a> appeared first on Cannabis Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Alison Ettel unintentionally became an Internet meme when she went through the motions (at least) of calling the police to complain about an 8-year-old African American girl selling bottled water \u201cwithout a permit\u201d on a hot day in San Francisco\u2019s South Beach neighborhood. Young Jordan Austin was selling water toContinue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4771,4772,1840,4773,4774,50,2069,4775,170,4776,139,151,4746],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27360"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27361,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27360\/revisions\/27361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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