Both George and Mike wish their cofounder, M. Louis Van de Beek, was still around to see the shop open for business. Van de Beek, who had an internal medical practice in Port Richmond, died of a stroke last August. “He was a driving force behind all of this,” Mike said, adding that Van de Beek studied the effects of cannabis on cancer and other ailments in the 1980s with the National Institutes of Health.