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| Video screenshot shows Hughes outside pot store. |
Reporter and self-described "fuddy-duddy" Trevor Hughes documented his first-ever marijuana purchase (not first legal purchase, but first in his entire life!) in a Fort Collins Coloradoan video about the booming pot industry now that recreational use is legal in the state.
Best part of the assignment: The paper reimbursed him for the $27 he paid for a gram of Blue Dream at the Medicine Man marijuana store in east Denver, with the understanding he'd immediately turn it over to the local sheriff to be destroyed. (Doubters take note: He videotaped that part, too.)
Hughes closes his video with the first thing that came to my mind: "Now, where's that expense report?"
27 bucks. Geez, I guess my raise is going to the Gannett Pot Fund in 2014.
ReplyDeleteSomeone looks half baked on da Bubbah Kush, mon!
ReplyDeleteWhat's the difference between reimbursing for pot to a reporter or reimburing for drinks and dinner for executives who get tanked up and get DWI's. As the editor in Palm Springs and the imfamous Publisher in Indy if they got reimbursed for the dinners or drinks that resulted in their DWI's. I hope they don't reprimand the reproter.
ReplyDeleteThe reporter now known as Trevor "Iray" Hughes
ReplyDeleteWhy would you turn it over to the sheriff to be destroyed in a state where it's now legal? And why would the sheriff even spend his/her time dealing with it? Surely there are some smokers in the newsroom willing to take it off his hands.
ReplyDeleteturning it over to the sheriff to be destroyed is just stupid.
ReplyDeleteAgreed. What a waste.
DeleteIn a company looking for a reason to get rid of somebody I don't think documenting that you handed it over after getting first hand knowledge of the buyers experience is stupid at all. It's not like you would share the marijuana with the newsroom as you might with some other goods so the question would have to be where did it go since the company paid for it?
DeleteMany years ago, before they were common, I was a news manager when we heard whispers about our area's first illegal massage parlor. A massage was $15, but for another $10, the pitch went, you could get "completely relaxed." You think I could get any one of a good sized group of male reporters to make me a legend -- likely the first Gannett manager to approve a chit for a "happy ending?" Not one. They blew my chance at immortality.
ReplyDeleteGross. Why drag such tawdry business into this perfectly wholesome discussion?
DeleteMeanwhile, 3 local news stories in my Salisbury paper today, plus a police log and a pointless story on the opening of the Legislature. The reason I purchased the paper, the weekend entertainment tabloid, was 8 whole pages.
ReplyDelete$27 for 1 gram = $756 an oz. Really?
ReplyDeleteDamn! I remember when an oz was something like $100 for so good "sheit"
Deletetaxes, baby, sin taxes!
ReplyDeleteAt those prices, that's definitely a sin-tax error!
DeleteI think a ruler pushed into the snow is more interesting.
ReplyDeleteHere you go, 3:38!
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DeleteWhat a waste of time. I wonder how many views it will get? Instead of a cheesy, 3-minute video, why isn't this guy doing some actual reporting?
ReplyDeleteGood points 9:51. Why not tell viewers about the different blends available and the effects of each? Who is behind these businesses? How many jobs is creating? Are customers being photographed? What about legal growers? Impact on taxes and tourism? etc., etc., etc.
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ReplyDeleteAlways amusing to see the second-string second-guessers here in grumpy land. They see one 2-minute video and assume that's all that's been done on the topic.
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