Wanted: Dead Heads and Pot Heads Stoners: Please Apply for Pot Reviewer; Librarian for Rock Memorab
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At the University of California at Santa Cruz (UCSC) they're looking to hire an official Grateful Dead archivist.
And in Denver, where Colorado's medical marijuana industry is legally flourishing, there are these two recent job postings:
The alternative newspaper Westword is advertising for a pot reviewer, asking for a short essay from applicants on "What Marijuana Means to Me".
Similarly, a new biotech company, Full Spectrum Laboratories, needs scientists to test the potency of cannabis samples and salesmen to market their quality-control tools.
They don't call it the Mile High City for nothing.
Those doing the hiring say -- not surprisingly -- they are being inundated with applications.
UCSC has so far received more than 100 applications for an archivist to organize a collection for an interactive reading room at the McHenry Library, tentatively named Dead Central, which will feature non- stop Grateful Dead (or related) music and rotating exhibitions.
"We're not looking for any old hippies, just qualified archivists," said Christine Bunting, head of special collections at the McHenry Library. "Of course you have to have an interest in popular culture, the American vernacular and music."
"We're not just looking for Dead Heads, but someone who can organize a collection," she told ABCNews.com.
The Grateful Dead, whose songs celebrated personal freedom and mind-altering drugs, emerged in the San Francisco ballroom scene of the 1960s and broke up, sort of, after Jerry Garcia's death in 1995.
The remaining band members recently donated their entire collection to UCSC: press clippings, photographs, tickets, backstage passes, promotional materials, business records, posters, T-shirts and other Dead merchandise.
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"You want to see a great writer with opinions and who is entertaining," she said. "Pot dispensaries are like restaurants, and you are talking about atmosphere, history or owners, not just the pot."
"Some are like head shops, some are like spas and some are like coffee shops and some are just down and dirty and skanky," said Calhoun. "That's what the reviewers will tell us."
But for those who are more technically minded and who may have lost jobs on Wall Street, look no further.
Full Spectrum Laboratories founder Bob Winnicki -- a former medical student and researcher -- is looking for a few good men (and women) to be marijuana testers.
The 35-year-old "gangaprenuer" aims to introduce quality control to the burgeoning cannabis industry, which is thriving in 14 states nationwide.
His start-up company tests samples of medical-marijuana products and quantifies their potency, helping doctors and patients determine correct dosages of the drug.
Winnicki dropped out of his third year of medical school at the University of Colorado after being approached by his "stoner" friends.
"'Hey, man, could you like come up with a way to test cannabinoids in plants?'" Winnicki says they asked him.
"I hit the literature," said Winnicki, who had previously run two technology companies. "I missed doing research and thought, yeah, that could be done. But we had to do it right -- not with Home Depot level equipment."
"It was the easiest money I ever raised," he said. "A lot of wealthy people in the industry see value in it."
When Winnicki was studying to be a doctor, people at parties thought he was "pretty cool," but now that he runs a marijuana company, "I am one of the most interesting people in the room."
He is banking on marijuana being legalized outright in the next five years and predicts he can "handle the whole industry."
Today he is looking for scientists and a sales team, but if business booms, there will be more openings.
His first hire was Betty Aldworth, a 33-year-old director of outreach and development.
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