Kid Cannabis (2014) Timeline Explained – Every Event in Order

Nate was a 19-year-old high school dropout living in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, feeling like a 'nobody' in a city full of wealth. After meeting a wealthy playboy during a pizza delivery job, he learned about the opportunity to smuggle premium marijuana from Canada. He researched Canadian marijuana laws and discovered they were significantly more lenient than U.S. laws, giving him the hope of making quick money to escape his circumstances.

Foreshadowing: Nate's frustration with his financial situation and his mother's struggle working multiple jobs sets the stage for his risky decision.

• Nate Norman
• marijuana smuggling
• motivation
• Canadian border

After their first trip to Canada, Nate and Topher returned to the U.S. and sold a salvaged motorboat they owned. This gave them $1,800 in startup capital, which they used to purchase their first batch of marijuana for their smuggling operation.

• startup money
• motorboat
• $1
• 800
• smuggling funds

Drug kingpin Barry Lerner financed Nate's operation with a $666,000 loan. After sampling their product and being impressed with its quality, Barry agreed to fund the massive purchase of 300 pounds of marijuana from Nicole's father, John Grefard. However, Barry gave Nate a stern warning against betraying him.

Foreshadowing: Barry's warning about betrayal foreshadows the dangerous consequences of crossing powerful figures in the drug world.

• Barry Lerner
• $666
• 000
• drug kingpin
• financing
• funding

Brendan Butler was a rival drug dealer who confronted Nate at gunpoint and attempted to assert control over his operations. During a violent confrontation at a birthday party, Butler was killed. The film implies that Nate's hands may not be as clean as they seem, suggesting Nate was responsible for Butler's death, though this is left somewhat ambiguous.

Foreshadowing: Butler's aggressive confrontation at gunpoint escalates tensions that ultimately lead to his demise.

• Brendan Butler
• death
• rival dealer
• confrontation
• killed

As law enforcement pressure mounted and Topher's reckless choices led to their eventual arrest, Nate made the heart-wrenching decision to turn himself in to protect his family. He sacrificed his freedom for the sake of his loved ones, choosing to take the blame rather than let his family suffer the consequences.

• Nate arrested
• turns himself in
• family protection
• police

At the end of the film, Nate faced the temptation to reduce his sentence by snitching and providing information about Barry Lerner to the authorities. Despite being offered this opportunity to shorten his time in prison, Nate ultimately resisted and chose to uphold his principles, refusing to become an informant against his former business partner.

Foreshadowing: Barry's earlier warning about betrayal sets up Nate's moral decision at the end.

• Nate refuses to snitch
• testimony
• Barry Lerner
• principles
• sentence reduction

The Mendiola brothers, hired by Brendan Butler, attempted to rob Nate and his crew. The confrontation turned dangerous and violent, but Nate and his crew narrowly escaped the robbery attempt. The fallout from this incident implied their troubles were far from over, contributing to the escalating violence that led to Butler's death.

• Mendiola brothers
• robbery attempt
• Butler
• violence

After their initial failed attempt at smuggling lower-quality cannabis, Nate and Topher met Nicole Grefard in Nelson, British Columbia. She offered them access to significantly larger quantities of high-quality marijuana from her family's extensive grow operation, which was located in a serene barn. This partnership allowed Nate to scale up his operation dramatically, agreeing to purchase 300 pounds from her father John.

• Nicole Grefard
• Nelson
• family grow operation
• marijuana supply

During their first smuggling attempt, Nate and Topher crossed into Canada through Kootenai National Forest wearing camouflage gear. When attempting to cross back into the U.S., they had a nerve-wracking encounter with Border Patrol that escalated to full cavity searches. Despite this humiliating experience, they continued pursuing their smuggling operation.

• Border Patrol
• cavity search
• Kootenai National Forest
• border crossing

Topher's reckless choices during the operation ultimately led to their arrest by law enforcement. While the specific details of what Topher did aren't fully detailed in the summary, his negligence created the opening that allowed police to close in on the entire operation, forcing Nate to turn himself in to protect his family from the consequences.

• Topher arrested
• reckless
• law enforcement
• police bust

Upon arriving in Creston, British Columbia, Nate and Topher visited a marijuana dispensary but were immediately warned by a shady individual to avoid any dealings. Undeterred, they purchased lower-quality cannabis for their $1,800 from a suspicious man, realizing only after that it wasn't the premium product they had intended to buy. Despite this setback, they persisted after seeing the overwhelming demand for BC Bud back home.

• Creston
• first purchase
• low quality cannabis
• marijuana dispensary