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Mentor Text 4: "Kid Cannabis: The Wild Rise and Violent Fall of a Teenage Weed Kingpin"

Kid Cannabis is an interviewed story about a teenage kingpin named Nate Norman and his accomplices. His main accomplice was his older friend, Topher Clark. Nate's idea was built from the ground up from selling the weed found all the way in British Columbia. He and Topher would make the trek to Canada, acquire the weed, and get back to the states. Topher claimed he hiked through the cold for miles to reach Nate, and they would drive back.

All was well for Nate and the crew. They were racking in dollar after dollar, and eventually, they reached 100k. Their crew expanded, and so did their connections. They began to reach almost 400k per run. Nate and his crew began to let the money get to their heads. They began to buy expensive jewelry, clothes, cars, guns, etc. They began to get careless.


The operation built up to 32 people, and they were making 4-6 runs a month. Topher tried quitting, but Nate began paying him more, so he stayed. He would later regret that. Their operation got so large that there was real competition. Their rival competition became a kid named Brendan Butler. Butler wanted Nate to be scared, so he hired a hitman. The hitman robbed one of Nate's coworkers, Scuzz, and told him we would return to kill him. The hitman, Mendiola, was told he would receive a lot of money for this, but Butler didn't pay, and Mendiola killed Butler.


The body was found, and the detectives decided it was time to shut these drug dealers down. Nate's crew realized that Butler was gone, so they had to stop and get out of town. They had plans to leave at 6 am, but didn't until 9, and were stopped outside by police and the FBI discovered that they had moved $38 million of weed. Nate is still appealing his case, and the rest of the crew is either on parole or doing other things to pay their time.

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