Harry Smith returns to his Colorado stomping grounds to explore “Marijuana Country: The Cannabis Boom” on CNBC, a one-hour documentary sizing up the state one year after legal sales started.
Smith covers pot as a treatment for seizures in children (“Charlotte’s Web”), the trouble with dosing edibles, the problem of enforcing zero tolerance in the workplace, the black market, the big businesses hoping to franchise and sales stats in general — all with a critical eye.
The “Cannabis Boom” premieres Jan. 5 locally (in Colorado) at 7 p.m. on CNBC.
Most of these topics have been chronicled extensively by local and national media (The Cannabist reports 9 percent of the state’s population can be considered regular users and counts $573 million in pot sales for 10 months of 2014), but the attention to underground sales is insightful. Those making deals without legal sanctions call it “donating” and “caregiving,” not buying and selling, Smith notes. Those who choose to avoid dispensaries and call a dealer, er, “caregiver,” spend about one-third the cost of legal recreational weed.
Read the rest of this story at Ostrow Off the Record.
More weedy reality TV coming out of Colorado’s pot industry:
Are you watching? ‘Pot Barons of Colorado’ is big business on MSNBC
‘Medicine Man’: Reality TV and legal pot, the ‘new American dream’
CNN’s ‘High Profits’: Docu-series will cover cannabis in Colorado ski towns
Video: They call this show ‘Shark Tank for pot,’ but would you watch it?
