Working Blue: A NYer writer spends six months with an LA pot broker
A long, LONG story (13 pages in print and online) in this week's New Yorker, about California and the medical marijuana industry. Writer David Samuels hooks up with Captain Blue, a self-styled LA pot broker who steers the fruits of NorCal pot farms to medical marijuana dispensaries. Like our own Sandy Banks before him, Samuels gets a script and buys some pot. Unlike Sandy, who flushed hers, Samuels gets high.
On the fridge, someone had posted a handwritten sign with the motto “Today is the day we manifest heaven on earth and godly bliss.” Water pipes were passed around, and everyone got high. After four hits on Nick’s bong, the slogans on the refrigerator started to vibrate with uncommon significance.
He also visits growing operations, talks to docs and patients, hangs with goofy stoners, gives a bit of background on the odyssey (and oddity) of the state's pot laws and, quite possibly, sets the entire medical marijuana cause back a giant step. The full story is online here.
-- Veronique de Turenne
Photo: Robert Durell / Los Angeles Times
I'm a "goofy" stoner. Of course, in my "goofiness", I get up very early to walk my dogs for 2 miles, commute, go to work everyday, clean house, pay bills and remodel my bathroom and kitchen. I've raised 3 children and have 3 grandchildren. If that's a definition of a "goofy", I must be missing out somewhere!
Posted by: Pam | July 28, 2008 at 11:51 AM
The law enforsement officer recently killed by a "goofy stoner" high on medical pot also is not doing the the movement any good.
Posted by: brady westwater | July 28, 2008 at 12:58 PM
"The law enforsement officer recently killed by a "goofy stoner" high on medical pot also is not doing the the movement any good."
I assume you mean the death of Andreas Parra, a motorist and the life-altering injury of Officer Anthony Pedeferri, which were allegedly caused by Jeremy White. If you google "Man accused in fatal crash is rearraigned" you can read "Forensic scientists testified at a preliminary hearing on April 1 that blood tests indicated the drug Ecstasy was in White's blood, in addition to marijuana."
Posted by: misinformation | July 29, 2008 at 12:22 PM