The New Pot Barons

[MindMover]

Full dark in downtown Denver, and inside one of the twinkling high-rises that make the skyline, drug dealers are putting money into envelopes. They’re trying to be discreet. No one signed the security logbook in the lobby. All assume the room could be bugged. But if your image of the drug trade involves armed gangs or young men in parked cars, these dealers offer a surreal counterpoint. There’s a finance veteran, two children of the Ivy League, multiple lawyers, and the son of a police chief. At their side is a Pulitzer Prize–winning communications consultant, two state lobbyists, and a nationally known political operative. And the guest of honor: a state senator who likes the look of those envelopes being stuffed.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/10/21/will-pot-barons-cash-in-on-legalization.html

[alfredo]

1. Are pot brownies considered a serving of green vegetables?

[MindMover]

2. If they aren't already, somebody is thinking about "making it so" ....

[alfredo]

7. As soon as corporate America sniffs money, it will

bewill be legalized.

[denverbill]

3. Interesting but probably outdated.

Most recent polls show this measure is now losing thanks to a heavy media blitz by both political parties in CO.

[MindMover]

4. WHATEVER ....

[Vincardog]

5. This sounds like something I should get in on