Patrick Roberts
- Keshawn Warner is the cofounder of Dazed, a cannabis dispensary in Massachusetts and New York.
- In 2008, Warner was arrested for buying weed, but used that to his advantage to open one of just eight legal dispensaries in New York City.
- Warner tells Insider reporter Yoonji Han about his childhood growing up amid the war on drugs and how he started his business.
This is an as-told-to essay based on a conversation with Keshawn Warner, co-founder of the cannabis dispensary Dazed. The essay has been edited for length and clarity.