Hiring Pot Heads and Dead Heads for New Hippie Jobs

Dead heads and pot heads take note. While the straight economy goes up in smoke with double digit unemployment, job prospects for hippies are booming -- and not just for boomers.

Denver's alternative newspaper Westward his hiring a pot reviewer to write a column, "Marijuana Highs and Lows," about the medical marijuana scene.

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.

To quote the Onion, "Drugs win War on Drugs".