First, if you happen to live in California, vote yes on Prop 19.
It’s embarrassing to me, as a Canadian, that you’re going to beat us to it. But I believe that taxation and regulation is the best way to handle mind-altering recreational substances, whether it’s marijuana or alcohol.
Now, a Colorado company is offering marijuana soda — if you have a medicinal marijuana license. They’re available in eight flavours from Dixie Elixirs.
Now, how long before someone makes a vodka cocktail using this marijuana soda?
Aside: According to the New York Times, legalizing marijuana is good for the newspaper business:
“Medical marijuana has been a revenue blessing over and above what we anticipated,” said John Weiss, the founder and publisher of The Independent, a free weekly. “This wasn’t in our marketing plan a year ago, and now it is about 10 percent of our paper’s revenue.”
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Alternative weeklies are not the only publications raking in medical marijuana lucre. Dailies like The Denver Post and The Bozeman Daily Chronicle in Montana are taking advantage of the boom and making no apologies.
“My point of view is, for the moment at least, it’s legal,” said Stephanie Pressly, publisher of The Daily Chronicle, adding that the paper generates about $7,500 a month in advertising from medical marijuana businesses. “The joke around here is that it’s a budding business.”
Some of the largest newspapers — even staid, conservative ones — are even producing regular supplements devoted to marijuana. Now that’s interesting.
(via Discovery News)