Opinion | Calhoun: Wake-up Call

Marijuana Matrix: Name your medical marijuana dispensary with this handy chart!

With new dispensaries opening daily across Colorado, the prime names are getting snapped up faster than the docs who are willing to prescribe medical marijuana. Now to worry, though; with this handy medical marijuana matrix, you can devise a new dispensary name faster than it takes to light up a...
By Patricia CalhounDecember 10, 2009
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With new dispensaries opening daily across Colorado, the prime names are getting snapped up faster than the docs who are willing to prescribe medical marijuana. Now to worry, though; with this handy medical marijuana matrix, you can devise a new dispensary name faster than it takes to light up a bowl. Just pick one descriptive from Column A, one noun from Column B, and one vague but respectable-sounding label from Column C (feel free to add an article or two) to come up with one of 27,000 unique combinations of herbiage verbiage.

That should take care of all the new dispensaries opening in Colorado until at least February 2010.

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Patricia Calhoun is editor emeritus of Westword, the alt-weekly she co-founded in September 1977. She was editor-in-chief from 1977-2026. She’s been inducted into the Colorado Press Association Hall of Fame, the Association of Alternative Newsmedia Hall of Fame and the Colorado Restaurant Association Hall of Fame (probably for her bar tab). She’s received dozens of local, state and national awards for writing, including first place for feature writing and first place for column writing with the Society of Professional Journalists, and is a weekly commentator on Colorado Inside Out, PBS12’s public affairs roundtable.

patricia.calhoun@westword.com

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