Earl is the newest, AND the oldest, employee at the cannabis dispensary, then he always came in and hung out around the shop for hours, talking to people.
The clients liked him so much that the boss hired him part-time, just as a piece of living cannabis history, earl was around back in the 60s, growing pot plants with the hippies in the commune.
He dodged the Vietnam draft, fled to Canada, and continued growing and selling weed for decades. Eventually he moved back down to the States where he joined a biker gang and became their main cannabis farmer… When the bikers decided that meth would be more profitable than cannabis Earl quit his task and moved to our town. And now he works at my cannabis shop, spinning tall tales and bad truths for the clients. Even though none of the employees are allowed to smoke cannabis on the task, Earl seems to always be surrounded by a cloud of pot smoke! Remember that kid Pig Pen from the old Peanuts comics, who was always surrounded by a fogbank? That’s Earl, however I have never absolutely seen him smoke cannabis. How can a guy be high all the time and never smoke cannabis? It’s one of the good mysteries of Earl, who is abruptly becoming a upscale member of the cannabis dispensary team. Earl doesn’t need a task at the cannabis shop, it just gives him something to do with his free time. He is in his 74s, and after so several decades of cannabis and hard living, who knows how much longer he has?