Time to Stop Blowing Smoke About Legal Pot

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We were going to Denver for a wedding and a concert and I wanted to check out the pot scene. The cracks I hear about supporting Gary Johnson for president are mostly about his support for legalizing marijuana.

Colorado and I go way back, to a teenage “coming of age” camping trip with Coors, other “provisions,” and hitch-hiking girls.

It was The Seventies.

My wife and I lived in Denver after our first daughter was born. I was “becoming an Advertising guy” after my first stint in radio; a freshly-minted Yuppie pushing a stroller.

It was the Eighties.

Last week was my first time back since the 90s. A cannabis cloud floated over Red Rocks Amphitheater as the Avett Brothers took the stage, as one has floated over every concert I’ve ever attended. I braced for a night in a legal Colorado haze.

It never happened. There were occasional scattered...

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