Ross Rebagliati to open medical-marijuana franchise
Source: Vancouver Sun
Ross Rebagliati, the Olympic gold medallist, plans to open up a franchise of medical marijuana shops that trade on his fame.
Saying he had tried for 15 years to leave behind the bad-boy reputation that had been visited upon him by his infamous run-in with the International Olympic Committee after they tried to take away his gold medal from the 1998 Nagano Winter Games for testing positive for marijuana, Rebagliati plans to go fully into the pot-dispensing business.
Legally.
Cheekily called Ross' Gold — a play both on his gold medal and names for types of marijuana — the company expects to set up a flagship store in Whistler this spring once the federal government privatizes the medical marijuana production industry. At first it will offer a storefront coffee shop with an age-restricted marijuana paraphernalia shop behind, and ultimately a doctor's office and dispensary.
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