By KAREN VELIE When San Luis Obispo picked the people who would operate three marijuana retail shops in the city, they selected Helios Dayspring and his Natural Healing Center. They also got a grou…
When San Luis Obispo picked the people who would operate three marijuana retail shops in the city, they selected Helios Dayspring and his Natural Healing Center. They also got a group of people who were behind Megan’s Organic Market and another group who applied under SLOCal Roots.
They said their were funding their shops independently and on their own. That was a lie, Dayspring says and he should know because he loaned them hundreds of thousands of dollars to get started. The loans were supposed to turn into an ownership stake in each shop, maintaining Dayspring’s control of marijuana in San Luis Obispo.
The city asked a SLO police detective to interview the applicants. During the April 2020 interviews, police detective Suzie Walsh asked odd questions such as, “Have you ever been cruel to animals? Have you ever been involved in a lawsuit? Have you ever had a building code violation?” Even though Walsh does not have a business background, she inspected a number of corporate and business documents.
Dayspring came up with an $800,000 convertible promissory note to fund Megan’s Organic Market and signed an agreement to have his employees manage the marijuana retail store, according to the documents. A partner in one of Dayspring’s shops said he was supposed to manage Megan’s Organic after it opened, but he had a falling out with Dayspring. CalCoastNews is not using the former partner’s name to protect him from retaliation.
Documents initially filed with the city showed ownership of Megan’s Organic split among six people. Megan Souza would have a 31.5 percent stake; Eric Powers another 31.5 percent, Melissa Seligman, 9.5 percent; Levi Seligman, 8 percent; Lindsey Law, 9.5 percent; and, Keith Sweeney 8 percent. Borges, the then-girlfriend and now wife of Andre, is an elementary school teacher. She has not returned questions about how she secured ownership in a multi-million dollar retail cannabis store.
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