Symposium plays matchmaker for wine, weed
Keynote speaker Dr. Bill Silver kicked off the second annual North Coast Wine & Weed Symposium last week by conjuring a vision of long ago: picture a group of teens hiding out in a basement in New England on a snowy day in the 1980s, sipping some rotgut called Wild Irish Rose with cream soda, and furtively blowing clouds of Acapulco Gold out the window (sub in Bartles & Jaymes wine coolers and a Thai stick, and it sounds like a foggy evening in the North Bay long ago). It wouldn't have occurred to one of those teens, Silver tells the crowd, that one day he would smoothly, and quite legally, shift jobs almost overnight from the wine business to the weed business.…
Symposium plays matchmaker for wine, weed
Keynote speaker Dr. Bill Silver kicked off the second annual North Coast Wine & Weed Symposium last week by conjuring a vision of long ago: picture a group of teens hiding out in a basement in New England on a snowy day in the 1980s, sipping some rotgut called Wild Irish Rose with cream soda, and furtively blowing clouds of Acapulco Gold out the window (sub in Bartles & Jaymes wine coolers and a Thai stick, and it sounds like a foggy evening in the North Bay long ago). It wouldn't have occurred to one of those teens, Silver tells the crowd, that one day he would smoothly, and quite legally, shift jobs almost overnight from the wine business to the weed business.…