Newspaper seeks pot-smoking critic

It certainly isn't your average help wanted ad.

"Do you have a medical condition that necessitates marijuana? Do you have a way with words? If so, Westword wants you to join the ranks as our freelance marijuana-dispensary reviewer."

The local "burgeoning medical marijuana scene" in Denver, Colorado, is growing and the weekly publication Westword wants to be on the forefront, said Joe Tone, the paper's Web editor. "We want someone who can get in and relay to our readers what it is like inside these dispensaries."



It's not exactly like a food critic job. The online-only reviewer won't be showing up anonymously and sampling the wares.

"They are to review the places, not the weed," Tone said. "We can't have our reviewer be stoned all the time," he quipped.

But, he said, the ideal applicant should have "the ability to write and be in the position of holding a state medical marijuana card." The reviewer, he said, should know his or her way around dispensaries and be "passionate about the issue of medical marijuana."