Pollstar: While the film chronicles how legal pot is changing the newspaper business, Baca told The Real that Colorado’s music promoters haven’t found a way to grab a piece of the $1 billion a year industry.
“I think we will get to a point where you can sell and buy marijuana at a music venue,” the Cannabist editor told The Real. “I don’t know where that’s going to happen first, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it was Nevada.”
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I think that Mike Barsch got it right, and that adding things like marijuana, especially while it’s still illegal on a national level, to the concert experience is a major liability to the production. Not only is there the weird issue of legality, but it’s also, in my opinion, not something that should be provided by those who are providing a concert, or a casino. If you want to provide a place where people can do drugs, then you’re assuming a liability.
Now don’t get me wrong, I think that marijuana should be legalized and regulated on a national level, much as alcohol and tobacco are, but even if that day comes, I think that the concert shouldn’t be the vendor of those products. That almost immediately makes the concert going experience about the drug, and if you ask me that takes a lot of the creative merit out of the final product. No doubt some places will do it if they can, but as a person who sees themselves as fairly liberal about the subject, I still think it's a bad idea.
From this article, it sounds to me like weed will add to a concert experience something similar to what alcohol might. It is simply another way to change your experience and a concert sounds like a place that a lot of people would like to experiment with their senses at. The article brings up some really interesting points about integrating weed into the concert and entertainment scenes. Many people see the potential to make it big in this blossoming aspect of the industry but they also don't know how to go about it because the guidelines haven't been written yet. The author mentions that “It’s still illegal in the eyes of the Federal Government,” and also the fact that “To sell weed at an event, you’ve got to take alcohol out of the equation,” complicates the business and how one might go around organizing it. I think that this new side to the industry sounds like it has great potential, but it just might be a little to early for it to start up. Maybe they should wait for more states to legalize this drug and wait for the acceptance of its legalization to become a wider held belief and that might eliminate some of the obstacles of the business and provide more room for the industry to grow as it gets started.
I think Wyatt really has the situation figured out, because giving out two types of drugs at an event would literally be double the liability for the providers and the event holders and the patrons. With so many hoops to jump through just to sell alcohol at events, imagine what a borderline controversial drug like marijuana would do. You also would have to deal with the effects of pot consumption like smoke, which is a more prevalent second hand health hazard than alcohol could ever be. I rarely ever see smoking sections at festivals or outdoor concerts currently, so I can only imagine what smoking weed at concerts could require in venues, especially if non smokers are allowed in – something that discriminating against might be difficult. I’m not entirely sure why the tickets have to be free in his model, but I guess that would just be another liability issue for the providers and hosts of the events.
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