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Help Wanted: Pot Critic

As pot grows semi-legal, connoisseurs wanted

By Caroline Miller,  Newser Staff

Posted Oct 5, 2009 12:38 PM CDT
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(Newser) – In the midst of media layoffs, one Colorado newspaper is actually hiring: It’s looking for a pot critic. The number of medical marijuana dispensaries in Denver has exploded to more than 100 this year, and the alt-weekly Westword wants someone with a legit medical need to evaluate which are clean, which offer good service, and which are just plain “sketchy," the editor tells the New York Times. Unfortunately, "we can't expense your purchases, although that would be pretty cool," reads the ad.

Maybe the paper need look no further than Mark Jacobson. In a long piece on pot’s semi-legal status for New York magazine, Jacobson attends a High Times pot tasting. A sample of his fine work: Purps is “a spicy little thing” providing “a gleeful cheap amusement-park high not unlike chubby Orson Welles’ tumbling down the fun-house chute in The Lady From Shanghai,” while Kush offered a “Romilar-esque ‘couch-lock’ stone.”

Marijuana plants are shown Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2009, in Seattle.
Marijuana plants are shown Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2009, in Seattle.   (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
The leaves of a marijuana plant are seen as Kentucky State Police and Kentucky National Guard troops search hillsides near Barbourvillle, Ky., for the plants Wed., July 22, 2009.
The leaves of a marijuana plant are seen as Kentucky State Police and Kentucky National Guard troops search hillsides near Barbourvillle, Ky., for the plants Wed., July 22, 2009.   (AP Photo/Roger Alford)
A grower holds a marijuana plant under a grow-light, Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2009, in Seattle.
A grower holds a marijuana plant under a grow-light, Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2009, in Seattle.   (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
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COMMENTS
Showing 3 of 17 comments
scubasteved
Oct 6, 2009 12:56 PM CDT
Its dubs ($20 for around 1.7-2.2 grams) dimes ($10 for usually a little less than a gram) around here anyway...
cognitivefilter
Oct 6, 2009 5:15 AM CDT
nah i want a job that funds my pot
Netstorm2k10
Oct 6, 2009 4:17 AM CDT
I'm not smoking for medical needs, though. I just want to get high.

 
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