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Telluride Daily Planet reports that pot’s still here to stay

Remember that song “Smuggler’s Blues” by Glenn Frey?

“They move it through Miami, sell it in L.A. They hide it up in Telluride. I mean it’s here to stay.”

When you’re immortalized in pop culture, even from the ’80s, it means something. When you think of Miami, vice pops in your head pretty fast.

So Justin Criado, senior staff writer at the awesome Telluride Daily Planet, hit the local pot shops for reaction to Sean Spicer’s comments suggesting the Trump administration might take a dim view of legal dope. (We still called it that in the ’80s.)

It’s still here to stay. The lure of easy money has a very strong appeal., that’s what Criado found out.

“The government’s too money hungry to (enforce stricter laws),” Telluride Bud Company owner Mike Davis said.

Delilah Marijuana Telluride operations manager Lexie Torelli added. “I mean, Republicans like money, right?”

It’s the politics of contraband.


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