Once again it has been more than a week since I last blogged, and I have been yearning for a new post for a couple days. Work has prevented me from blogging everyday, but a slow Sunday spells great opportunity for a quick post of recent events. Although I have done 90% of my blogging at work in the past, I now have the means to blog from home, as I have purchased a used ibook G4 after going months without the daily use of a home machine. After owning several PCs that have turned into expensive paper weights, I decided to turn to the 'darkside', and purchase a Mac, which as far as I'm concerned is a far more reliable product. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that I'm right.
In other news, the cannabis industry in Colorado is booming. With the recent passage of laws regarding the widespread availability of medical marijuana, dispensaries are popping up all over town and the industry is becoming an excellent boon to our local economy. The Denver metro area now houses more than 300 medical marijuana dispensaries, with more and more opening up shop every day. This trend has opened up the door for cannabis restaurants to deliver medicated meals to individuals possessing state registry, and has created a new way to think about food in Colorado. If I wasn't already convinced that said restaurants were excellent business ideas, one must look no further than this weeks edition of the Westword.
The feature article for this week was promoting a local chef whose name currently eludes me, who owns a couple successful local restaurants, as well as one of the larger dispensaries. Recently he has started to cook gourmet meals with medication, as well as teach classes on how to cook with cannabis. The combination always seemed natural to him, and now that the gourmet food and cannabis industries are thriving, he is raking money in hand over fist. He is not the only one in the metro area that is taking advantage of the trend that may well prove to be, well, more than a trend. In the immortal words of Jack Donaghee, "You can't fight synergy!"
The one other area that I want to touch on today is the situation in Haiti. As everyone knows (unless you've been hibernating with bears for the last week) Haiti suffered a massive earthquake earlier in the week that left the entire country decimated and in a complete state of panic. I watched yesterday as they pulled a man from the rubble of a hotel after 11 days of being trapped. This came briefly after Haiti had changed their strategy for recovery, aligning their efforts with reconciliation and rebuilding rather than rescue. They abruptly changed their strategy back after this man was dragged out alive, and was able to convey that their were many others still alive immersed in the debris.
The quake has proved to be one of the most significant natural disasters in recent history, and has spurned millions of Americans to donate and help with rebuilding and rescue efforts. The outpouring of support has been incredible, and if you needed any evidence of this, one must look no further than the 3 hour special that ran on every major network on Friday. Millions have been donated to the relief effort, and we as American's finally have done something to be proud of. Americans are donating their hard earned money, and recession or not, their generosity has astounded me. Maybe if we treat health care like a natural disaster (its actually not that far off now that I think about it!) we wouldn't be mired in the muck we are currently in!
That's it for now -- Hopefully you'll hear from me soon!
A.S. Bloom
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