Former smugglers now legit at medical pot convention

This is a fascinating article.

<Three decades ago, Bruce Perlowin was smuggling hundreds of thousands of pounds of Colombian marijuana to California in fishing boats passing beneath the Golden Gate Bridge. His childhood friend, David Tobias, was trafficking dope across turquoise Caribbean waters to Florida and Georgia.

On Saturday, at a Los Angeles medical marijuana trade show teeming with entrepreneurs hoping to cash in on California's legal pot market, the two chums were reunited as business consultants marketing "solutions for an emerging industry."

Their Medical Marijuana Inc. booth is one of scores of competing exhibits at Hemp Con 2010, a three-day event promoters say will draw 30,000 visitors to the Los Angeles Convention Center this weekend. The once unfathomable expo signals the reach of California's fast-budding cannabis economy and the intense lure of both pot seekers and entrepreneurial dreamers to get a toke of the action.>

More at the link, worth the read.

http://www.sacbee.com/2010/02/21/2552774/california-marijuana-hemp-con.html

Life imitates art, once again.

I haven't seen the show, but have a couple of seasons in my Queue. Now I'm motivated to watch it.

in this field....all kinds of businesses could be started..once it goes legal in one state many others will follow...

that once it becomes a profitable endeavor that could help an ailing economy, legalizing pot becomes more acceptable. Its the American Way!

so let's hope it's on the way yet again.

who knows, one of these guys might start a liberal political dynasty ala Joe Kennedy.

and we're fast on our way to legalization. Just a few years ago I predicted that there was lots of money to be made and there would designer pot and all kinds of clever marketing gimmicks. That is already happening.

I knew it was coming when last year we went to Tahoe and there was a Toby Keith concert at the hotel we were staying at. We rode up the elevator with some middle aged fans and everyone was talking openly about pot and laughing. Even conservatives are open to the idea (the floor we were staying on reeked of pot).

I say all this as someone who does not smoke pot, but I would like to live in a world where it is legally available. I would rather be around people who smoke than drink and if I need pain or stress relief, I'd rather turn to pot than prescription drugs.