Legal Left-Handed Lucky's?

DENVER -- Local contractors are eager to begin hundreds of apartment construction jobs as marijuana users plan to relocate to the area.  One construction worker exclaimed, "We can't wait to begin work and get paid, so we can partake in the new pot laws!"

Folks, despite the cold and snowy conditions, potheads are lining the streets of Denver to purchase marijuana legally.  According to CNN, Sean Azzariti, a Marine who served from 2000 to 2006 who suffers from PTSD, says marijuana alleviates the stress and anxiety from PTSD.  Unfortunately, PTSD didn't qualify in the days of medical marijuana.  So Azzariti, who has been smoking for some time,  "described his purchase of recreational marijuana -- legally -- as a historic moment Wednesday."

Even after the stores had been open for hours, hundreds of people were still in line.  Fox News reports, "Crowds were serenaded by live music as they waited for the nation's first legal recreational pot shops to open.  They ate doughnuts and funnel cakes as a glass-blower made smoking pipes.  Some tourists even rode around in a limo, eager to try weed but not so eager to be seen buying it."  "'I'm going to frame the receipt when I go home, to remind myself of what might be possible:  Legal everywhere.'" musician James Aaron Ramsey, 28, who did some time in jail for pot possession in Missouri and played folk tunes with his guitar for those in line."  I would've figured the funnel cakes and doughnuts to come after the purchase, not before.  

Needless to say, America is changing again.  Prohibition of marijuana is over in some areas of Colorado, and Washington state is apparently next.  But Coloradans aren't the only ones in town for Pot Fest 2014.  Stores have reported ID's from Georgia, Vermont, Arizona, Oregon, Wyoming, Louisiana, Alaska, and Hawaii.  Also, Pot Fest 2014 became an international affair when Canadians, Australians, and Italians were reportedly on the scene.  The new marijuana laws in Colorado prohibit the devil's lettuce from leaving the state, so I imagine Colorado will remain under cloudy conditions for the foreseeable future.  

However, maybe the new law is a good thing.  It isn't available, legally, to minors, and the tax revenues will surely help as well.  Furthermore, one this is certain-  Denver, once again, will be the true "Mile-High City".