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You know how sometimes when you smoke pot the wheels in your mind start turning with the sort of creativity and ingenuity not seen since the invention of Taco Bell's Cool Ranch Dorito Locos Taco? How your imagination positively explodes with intricate details of a grand vision you'll start implementing just as soon you're done watching "Pineapple Express"?
Yeah, me neither, but let's just go with it for a minute, anyway.
People who smoke pot with any amount of frequency see things differently than those who don't smoke pot. Therein lies the issue since pot became kinda-sorta-but-still-not-really legal in Colorado.
Coloradans are now divided into two groups: those who think and act like normal adults, and those who smoke pot regularly, have successfully viewed Seth Rogen's entire filmography while polishing off a bag of the aforementioned tacos and just know in their bones they're going to singlehandedly reimagine and reinvigorate life in the Centennial State even if their ambitious ideas don't always seem so sharp once the smoke clears.
There has recently been a comedy of errors around these parts so remarkable that Cheech and Chong are no doubt sitting back admiringly and taking notes.
Part of the joke appears to be rooted in the fact that the state's medical marijuana watchdog group needs its own watchdog group. A state audit released in late March shows regulators who were supposed to be supervising Colorado's medical marijuana industry couldn't manage to self-identify "its proper role" or do a "sufficient job managing its programs and finances," according to a March 26 story in The Denver Post.
More than $1 million was spent developing a seed-to-sale inventory tracking system, but then the group "couldn't come up with another $400,000 to put it in place." It's almost an O'Henry-like scenario, except instead of the hair combs for no hair and a watch band without a watch, some bonehead forgot it's impossible to eat a peanut butter sandwich if you don't have also have a glass of milk to wash it down.
More than 40 percent of marijuana business license applications filed in 2010 have yet to be processed, and far too many questionable licenses have been granted. The punch line, however? Not the underreported sales tax revenue or unexplained "weak controls" over the destruction of marijuana seizures.
No, it's the purchase of $28,000 spent on seven desk extenders and $4,200 on four office chairs. Somewhere, a bunch of college stoners are weak in the knees at the prospect of graduating to a job where they, too, can get paid to recline in high style instead of slumping on a third-hand lumpy couch with questionable stains in the common area outside of their dorm room.
Then there are the "green" entrepreneurs in Denver – My 420 Tours – who just can't wait to start the nation's first-ever marijuana tourism company that will include pot-friendly hotels and cannabis-themed concerts and events. They're so anxious in fact, that their rollout comes in just six days, despite the fact that non-medical marijuana sales will still be illegal in Colorado for a few more months.
Some landlords are scratching their heads wondering how to handle complaints from residents about pot smoke leaking into the hallways of their buildings. There's also the decidedly less-funny news that Children's Hospital Colorado treated 14 children in a 2-year span after they ingested pot-laced goodies such as gummy worms and brownies, compared to none in the previous 4-year period before medical marijuana became legal.
A Pew Research survey released on April 4 revealed 52 percent of Americans now support the legalization of marijuana, but if news continues seeping out of Colorado about the sticky and moronic nuances of the process, it seems likely that not only will no other states will follow suite, but someone also might just decide to step up here and repeal the measures already kinda sorta in place.
Which means it's probably time to take a page out of the college-stoners handbook and by all means, keep smoking and dreaming if that's your thing, but at the same time, stick a rolled-up towel under the door and act like you've been there, people.
News Hawk- Truth Seeker 420 MAGAZINE ®
Source: denverpost.com
Author: Meredith Carroll
Contact: Contact Us - The Denver Post
Website: M. Carroll: We're making a mess of this pot thing, Colorado - The Denver Post
Yeah, me neither, but let's just go with it for a minute, anyway.
People who smoke pot with any amount of frequency see things differently than those who don't smoke pot. Therein lies the issue since pot became kinda-sorta-but-still-not-really legal in Colorado.
Coloradans are now divided into two groups: those who think and act like normal adults, and those who smoke pot regularly, have successfully viewed Seth Rogen's entire filmography while polishing off a bag of the aforementioned tacos and just know in their bones they're going to singlehandedly reimagine and reinvigorate life in the Centennial State even if their ambitious ideas don't always seem so sharp once the smoke clears.
There has recently been a comedy of errors around these parts so remarkable that Cheech and Chong are no doubt sitting back admiringly and taking notes.
Part of the joke appears to be rooted in the fact that the state's medical marijuana watchdog group needs its own watchdog group. A state audit released in late March shows regulators who were supposed to be supervising Colorado's medical marijuana industry couldn't manage to self-identify "its proper role" or do a "sufficient job managing its programs and finances," according to a March 26 story in The Denver Post.
More than $1 million was spent developing a seed-to-sale inventory tracking system, but then the group "couldn't come up with another $400,000 to put it in place." It's almost an O'Henry-like scenario, except instead of the hair combs for no hair and a watch band without a watch, some bonehead forgot it's impossible to eat a peanut butter sandwich if you don't have also have a glass of milk to wash it down.
More than 40 percent of marijuana business license applications filed in 2010 have yet to be processed, and far too many questionable licenses have been granted. The punch line, however? Not the underreported sales tax revenue or unexplained "weak controls" over the destruction of marijuana seizures.
No, it's the purchase of $28,000 spent on seven desk extenders and $4,200 on four office chairs. Somewhere, a bunch of college stoners are weak in the knees at the prospect of graduating to a job where they, too, can get paid to recline in high style instead of slumping on a third-hand lumpy couch with questionable stains in the common area outside of their dorm room.
Then there are the "green" entrepreneurs in Denver – My 420 Tours – who just can't wait to start the nation's first-ever marijuana tourism company that will include pot-friendly hotels and cannabis-themed concerts and events. They're so anxious in fact, that their rollout comes in just six days, despite the fact that non-medical marijuana sales will still be illegal in Colorado for a few more months.
Some landlords are scratching their heads wondering how to handle complaints from residents about pot smoke leaking into the hallways of their buildings. There's also the decidedly less-funny news that Children's Hospital Colorado treated 14 children in a 2-year span after they ingested pot-laced goodies such as gummy worms and brownies, compared to none in the previous 4-year period before medical marijuana became legal.
A Pew Research survey released on April 4 revealed 52 percent of Americans now support the legalization of marijuana, but if news continues seeping out of Colorado about the sticky and moronic nuances of the process, it seems likely that not only will no other states will follow suite, but someone also might just decide to step up here and repeal the measures already kinda sorta in place.
Which means it's probably time to take a page out of the college-stoners handbook and by all means, keep smoking and dreaming if that's your thing, but at the same time, stick a rolled-up towel under the door and act like you've been there, people.
News Hawk- Truth Seeker 420 MAGAZINE ®
Source: denverpost.com
Author: Meredith Carroll
Contact: Contact Us - The Denver Post
Website: M. Carroll: We're making a mess of this pot thing, Colorado - The Denver Post
