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Locked In with Ian Bick

How I Built a Multi-Million Dollar Marijuana Delivery Business | Alex Merino

Locked In with Ian Bick

Ian Bick

Society & Culture

4.8745 Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2025

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Alex Merino reveals how he turned a small marijuana delivery business into a multi-million dollar operation before law enforcement shut it down. #MarijuanaBusiness #WeedIndustry #CannabisTrade #EntrepreneurLife #TrueCrime #LegalizationDebate #IllegalBusiness #FederalCase Connect with Alex Merino: YouTube: https://youtube.com/@ffhustler420?si=_hUSenVxBM4TlHTF Hosted, Executive Produced & Edited By Ian Bick: https://www.instagram.com/ian_bick/?hl=en https://ianbick.com/ Presented by Tyson 2.0 & Wooooo Energy: https://tyson20.com/ https://woooooenergy.com/ Buy Merch: https://convictclothing.net/collections/convict-clothing-x-ian-bick Timestamps: 00:00:00 Introduction to Locked In with Alex from Vegas 00:05:32 School Memories: From Selling Candy to Trouble 00:10:59 Childhood Influences and Parental Views on Marijuana 00:16:41 The Journey from Junior College to Hustling 00:22:38 Arrest and Probation Challenges 00:28:15 Navigating Jail: My First Experience 00:34:00 Coping with Incarceration: Stories of Withdrawal and Adaptation 00:39:49 Navigating Financial Struggles and Resilience 00:45:29 Unexpected Backyard Discovery 00:51:05 Challenges of Early Wake-Up in Prison 00:56:42 Developing Resilience in Sales 01:02:29 The Rise of a Lucrative Cannabis Delivery Service 01:08:08 Facing Jail or House Arrest: A Personal Dilemma 01:13:55 Transition to a Customer Service Role 01:19:39 From Easy Money Schemes to Real Struggles 01:25:21 Building a Thriving Online Community from Scratch 01:30:58 Closing Remarks and Gratitude Powered by: Just Media House : https://www.justmediahouse.com/ Creative direction, design, assets, support by FWRD: https://www.fwrd.co Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Alex, welcome to Lockton, straight from Vegas. Yeah. You didn't bring the warm weather with you. Nope. But you're here rocking that stylish shirt, and thanks for the care package you brought today. Yeah, for sure. So I get hooked up with some things now and again. And, you know, I didn't know if it was cheesy or not, but shout out to Vanessa. Tell me, just do it, hook them up.

0:36.4

Yeah, no, nothing cheesy. So a lot of guests like to bring something and I just put it, like, around the studio. So it's like a little piece of every guest lives here between the Polaroid picture or in my office and stuff. It's cool to just, you know, build that. It's a little piece of everyone, which I really like.

0:38.7

It's going to suck if we ever move out of here one day.

0:40.0

But oh well.

0:42.9

But before we start, plug in, you know, your podcast,

0:48.7

what you do to our listeners and everything like that. So I have a sports podcast. We focus on fantasy football. A lot of people asking questions about, you know, just who to start, getting to league. So I'm pretty

0:56.0

much a fantasy football consultant is what I feel like I am. And you can go to fantasyfootballhustler.com

1:02.4

and that gets you to Patreon, to YouTube, and literally everywhere that I am. Awesome. And we'll

1:07.7

have all those links in the description in this episode for everyone to check out. did you grow up in Vegas no so I grew up in San Diego and moved there my parents moved

1:16.8

there when I was three and my mom's originally from there I think she just wanted to be around

1:20.9

a bunch of her family and yeah live there until three years ago any siblings yeah I got three

1:27.0

so have one sister who well two sisters one's two years younger and then I lived there until three years ago. Any siblings? Yeah, I got three.

1:30.1

So have one sister who, well, two sisters.

1:31.2

One's two years younger.

1:44.6

And then another one's eight years younger. And then a brother is 10 years younger. Oh, so you're the oldest? Yeah. All the same mom and dad? Yep. Okay. And what did your parents do for work? So our mom was an accountant with the city for, I think, waste management or something.

1:47.6

And then my dad was a plumber for the longest time.

1:44.6

And then he started a plumber. So my mom was an accountant with the city for, I think, waste management or something.

1:47.6

And then my dad was a plumber for the longest time.

1:52.6

And then he started a pool cleaning service, I think when I was about 22, 23.

1:55.8

So you get the entrepreneurial sense from him a little bit?

1:56.2

No.

1:59.7

No, definitely not. I feel like it comes from a couple generations above me, you know,

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