Rolling Papers

Year: 2015

Country: USA, Uruguay

Tagline: The Gateway Documentary  »

Plot: On January 1, 2014, recreational marijuana sales began in Colorado. With all eyes on ground zero of the green rush, The Denver Post became the first major media outlet to embrace it and appointed the worlds first marijuana editor. Legalization is not just an experiment for society, but a risk for the dying industry of newspapers to hedge its bets on the booming business of marijuana. Ricardo Baca sets out to report on history in the making with a team of straight-laced staff writers and fish out of water freelancers in tow for The Cannabist as it unfolds. Policy news, strain reviews, parenting advice and edible recipes are the new norm in the unprecedented world of pot journalism.The documentary centers on the Denver Post's introduction last year of the Cannabist section, led by Ricardo Baca, the world's first marijuana editor, as he invents a way to cover a nascent industry for a major daily newspaper, a business model that happens to be struggling with how to reinvent itself. 

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