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Camden: Covering Pot Not That Hot

During of quarter century-plus of living in Spokane, I regularly had to explain to friends and relatives elsewhere that it was not a suburb of Seattle and thus did not get rain all the time. Now in Olympia, I battle a new misconception, that being the newspaper’s marijuana reporter is not like being its wine critic or beer columnist. It’s interesting on many levels – government policy, changing social standards, complicated chemistry – but there’s no sampling of the subject matter and it has about as many laughs as sitting through a legislative budget hearing. Which is to say, almost none/ Jim Camden , SR. More here .

Question: Would you like to be a newspaper marijuana reporter?

* This story was originally published as a post from the blog "Huckleberries Online." Read all stories from this blog