Help wanted: Pot-clinic critic (seriously) - Denver

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http://blogs.westword.com/latestword/2009/09/call_for_pot_dispensary_review.php

Do you have a medical condition that necessitates marijuana? Do you have a way with words? If so, Westword wants you to join the ranks as our freelance marijuana-dispensary reviewer.

To provide an objective resource on the state's burgeoning medical marijuana scene, Westword has launched "Mile Highs and Lows," a weekly review of Colorado marijuana dispensaries. Now we're looking for just the right person to take the reins.

The job is simple: Visit a different dispensary each week (without revealing you're working for Westword) and pen concise, impartial and snappy accounts of your experiences. Keep in mind this isn't about assessing the quality of the medicine on site; it's about evaluating the quality of the establishment. After all, we can't have our reviewer be stoned all the time.

The perfect candidate will be a talented writer who's not about to play favorites -- and, of course, someone who has a state medical marijuana ID (or the ability and need to obtain one). Compensation will be meager -- and no, we can't expense your purchases, although that would be pretty cool.

Think you've got what it takes? Send a resume (informal is okay; handwritten on rolling papers isn't) and a one-paragraph essay on "What Marijuana Means to Me" to joe[dot][email protected]. The more creative the better -- so get rolling.

(Fair warning: Because we think it might be really funny, we reserve the right to publish any samples we receive, though we won't use any full names without permission).

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[Tripsick]

sounds like a good job.

 

[nightballa613]

wish i could do that here. would be awesome!

 

[Blue Dot]

Keep in mind this isn't about assessing the quality of the medicine on site; it's about evaluating the quality of the establishment. After all, we can't have our reviewer be stoned all the time.

This is the most absurd thing I've ever heard. So if the budtenders are wearing pretty white lab coats and they have nice furniture then it doesn't matter if they are peddling crap?

Afterall, this is the model the big pharma/doctor industry has created.

Doctors wear their white lab coats and hang a stethoscope around their neck to give the APPEARANCE that they know what they are doing when mostly they are clueless.

It's like all the dispensaries in LA that call themselves Pharmacies. Like they are a real pharmacy. it's all one big joke. ON YOU!

 

[BIOJenn]

i think its perfect for > the strainman

 

[Ms_Weekend]

this made jay leno tonight?!?!?!?! funny

 

[SoloGro57]

I'm betting that its a marketing tool for the dispensaries... they pay to get written up in some free rag and some hack says nice things about their biz.

 

[High]

"this isn't about assessing the quality of the medicine"

At least a food critic gets a free meal.

 

[Kola Radical]

Critics are the lowest form of journalistic life. Any inbred, moron can whine and complain. Just look at the internet. It should be called the WhinerNet.