were noticing K2. They were banning chemical JWH18. So, we would use another similar JWH20. Unfortunately, I did not have Greg and Doug sign a non—compete for agreement. So, you know what happened next, right? That is right, they set up their own manufacturing facility in St Louis started selling the exact same products, and overnight they became my competition! I treated my client's right, so I did not think I would lose business.
Each time a chemical from China was banned, the Chinese would make a slight change to its composition and it would suddenly be "legal" again with different nomenclature. I had committed myself fully to this venture, and it was getting bigger by the week. I was employing good people and running the business completely above—board. I found a lab company that I liked and started using them to test our products, to ensure they did not contain any banned substances We tested out products and did this randomly and never had a banned product to sell or sold any banned products.
As more news was coming about the banned products, I was becoming worried since the business was slowing down, and that it could stop altogether. Of course, it just slows for a short time as the demand was there. There was a clause in the agreement with Greg and Doug that said if the government started banning the foundational ingredients for the products, then the sale and contract would be null—in-void. So, I argued that it was too scary, and I was closing this effectively voided our agreement. I had paid them about two—hundred thousand dollars. I was slowing down, the Sloan's were building up, and of course, taking a lot of my customers. I did stop manufacturing K2 as it was getting such a bad name and many people were making it called K2 and you did not know what was in it. It was getting a lot of bad publicity on local and national news and they were also calling it “Spice”. Here is an article and is why I stopped calling my products K2.
Seller of synthetic marijuana sentenced to 7 years in prison, putting rat poison in it.
CHICAGO (AP) — The operator of a Chicago convenience store who sold illegal synthetic marijuana laced with rat poisoning was sentenced Thursday to seven years in prison by a federal judge.
Fouad Masoud pleaded guilty in September to drug conspiracy for selling the illegal substance, sometimes called K2, from his West Side store. In sentencing Masoud, 49, U.S. District Judge Manish Shah said the emergence of ``greedy black-market profiteers” selling K2 likely contributed to a public health crisis that included deaths.
``You didn’t know there was rat poison in it, but you also didn’t care what you were selling,” Shah said.
During the hearing, a victim testified he started urinating blood soon after smoking the synthetic pot he bought at Masoud’s store and was hospitalized. He says two years later he is still recovering from the after-effects of using the substance.
Prosecutors requested a 10-year prison sentence for Masoud, noting that over a 2 ½-year period beginning in 2015, customers lined up outside the store waiting for Masoud to arrive with the illegal substance.
Defense attorney Glenn Seiden argued his client should get a 3-year prison term, saying there was no link between the hospitalizations of synthetic marijuana users and the substance sold at Masoud’s store.
I decided to stop manufacturing in Indianapolis. I was always on the lookout for something new to jump into, just in case.
One of my employees there owned a recording studio business in his basement and he wanted to get bigger. And since I was closing the Spice business down, I had this big warehouse and was paid up a couple of months, so what to do. We decided to use the warehouse as a recording studio instead, helping Head (his nickname is Head) out and letting him become the head engineer.
Chapter Seven
Never stop thinking, create something out of nothing and build on it
Misty, my daughter from my first marriage, was living in Phoenix, Arizona at the time, and she thought it would be a good idea to move the business out there. We would sell a similar product but would not call it K2 she said she would find some good, honest people to work for us. As we were getting ideas on the recording studio and Head was deciding what we will need. I concentrated on getting the business going in Arizona and finding a place.
I flew to Phoenix on an "exploratory mission" for the business and went shopping for a warehouse and a type of place that would be suitable for our venture. We found one that would work well, and it was very convenient to Misty's house which was just five miles south—west of there. And an added plus was that there was a casino about five minutes away. So, you can imagine that that worked out very well! I went ahead and leased a warehouse, and it was in Chandler Arizona, a suburb of Phoenix. Soon as I got back to Indy, I started shipping material to get us set up with our new venture in Chandler. I gave Misty a list of items to pick up for us out there, and we worked hard to get all the employees and products in place to start manufacturing. Orders were already banking upon us and they needed to be filled quickly. I sent a couple of guys that mixed the product in Indy out there to make some products and train others how to make it.
After about a week, I had everyone I needed and everything in place and we started manufacturing our new products. We had names like Pyara, Passion Sense, Stoop-id, and more. Misty was working at the University of Phoenix, and she did not have any plans for quitting there anytime soon. But she had a co-worker that did not like working there, and she was looking for another job, her name was Mansi. Misty told her about our operation, and that I needed a business manager. Mansi thought it might be an interesting job, as well as a challenge for her — which she liked, So Misty, Mansi, and myself met at a local Mexican restaurant to discuss the business. Mansi is very pretty and full of energy. Her parents were from India, and they spoke extraordinarily little English. But Mansi was teaching them a little more all the time. Mansi knew that the product was something that could be short-lived and could also give her a chance to make a lot of money. Mansi was also overly aggressive — in a good way — and taking a leadership role came naturally to her. I was really very glad when Mansi accepted the job because I knew that she was just the type of person we needed to keep up the energy level in our business — which would, of course, ensure our future success. As I anticipated, Mansi fit right in and taking charge and the role of leadership. Very quickly she was doing pretty much everything from bookkeeping, payroll, ordering, manufacturing, packing, and shipping. She could and did do it all. It appears she was on top of everything after a few weeks and she did and did not need me. She even had her dad and mom working there too! But just as Mansi was great at all she was doing she was just great at making NEW sales — which is, as any business-person knows, crucial to any business. She also worked hard to get back some old customers that I had lost to Greg and Doug. She had the gift of gab and if you met her, you would know why she could sell you anything; she is hard to turn down. Maybe that is why she sent her picture to her customers.
Things were really going along very smoothly, and I didn’t have to do a lot in regard to the Phoenix operation. Though I did fly out there every two or three weeks — and, as always, I enjoyed the trips. For a single girl in her mid-twenties, she was doing very well making six figures and she deserved it.
Chapter Eight
If you do not take a chance you have no chance to succeed
If you fail try again
Back in Indy we are starting to build a top-notch recording studio. But I was trying to figure out what to do with the rest of the warehouse there in INDY. I was also trying to come up with an idea for a name for the studio. Shelby called me one day, and when I answered, she said “Hi Daddy!” — and that’s when it hit me “Daddy” That's the name! We will name the studio “Daddy Real Entertainment” and everybody I ran it passed thought it was a cool name. I must admit, I was proud of it! With the extra space in the warehouse, we decided to build one of the largest ‘green screens’ in the area, and we did. So now, we had a recording studio and a great video and photography studio.
“Daddy