Iowa native enjoying job as marijuana critic

[rurallib]

Okay - this made me laugh

http://www.radioiowa.com/2014/11/12/iowa-native-enjoying-job-as-marijuana-critic/
November 12, 2014 By Pat Curtis

Jake Browne
An Iowa native, now a longtime resident of Colorado, is getting paid to smoke marijuana and write about the experience. Shortly after the drug became legal in Colorado in January, the Denver Post hired Jake Browne to become the newspaper’s first pot critic.

Browne, who grew up in Cedar Rapids, says he never dreamed he’d land — what many of his friends and readers call — “the best job ever.” “I always thought I was going to be a lawyer and now I just hope I don’t need one,” Browne told Radio Iowa, laughing. After graduating from Metro High School in Cedar Rapids in 2001, Browne moved to Colorado and enrolled in college, but dropped out. He eventually became marketing director and general manager of a friend’s medical dispensary and opened a “pot consulting” business.
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I have a friend who is a photographer for ESPN. He gets into all the big events free. He always says "It's work, you know" I always said he had my dream job. He has been demoted to #2 dream job.

cross posted from the Iowa group

[fizzgig]

1. wouldn't be a bad job

and i think the cannabist was a great idea from the post.

the ny times did a profile on him last week

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/09/fashion/the-life-of-a-pot-critic-denver-post-clean-with-citrus-notes.html?_r=0