Peter Preston 

With pot luck you’ll land a job at the Denver Post

Peter Preston: Colorado's legalisation of recreational marijuana use has created a new media job opportunity
  
  

Passing a joint
The Denver Post's new marijuana editor admitted that he had used the drug. Photograph: Alamy Photograph: Alamy

A dream job? Colorado legalises pot smoking and the Denver Post rushes to appoint a "marijuana editor" responsible for "building community and engagement" on a brand new website. Has Ricardo Baca, the first pot-follower-in-chief, ever puffed a weed? "The short answer" is he's been covering pop festivals for 15 years. So, um … "yes". And, inevitably enough, the Post's head of human resources has to have her say.

"As with alcohol, you are not allowed to ingest (either via cigarettes or food) marijuana in the office or come to the office reeking of marijuana. If you do imbibe marijuana in the course of covering it for your job, we expect you to take necessary steps to ensure you do not drive while impaired or put anyone at risk". Which, presumably, means that you're obliged to grass on patent miscreants. Ingest and in the mire.

 

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