Colorado Symphony Links Up With Pot Industry.

[elleng]

Saying it's bring your own weed, the Colorado Symphony Orchestra will play a series of fundraising concerts sponsored by the state's burgeoning pot industry.

In a statement Tuesday, symphony CEO Jerome Kern says they're part of efforts to reach a broader audience. The state's only full-time professional orchestra, like others, has struggled with dwindling audiences and budget problems.

Listeners are encouraged to bring their own marijuana to smoke or eat. Smoking will be allowed at the private venues where the first two 21-and-up concerts will be held. Organizers say they will follow the rules at the final show at the publicly-owned Red Rocks Amphitheater, where smoking is officially banned.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2014/04/29/us/ap-us-classic-cannabis.html?hp

[tridim]

1. Freedom! nt

[TlalocW]

2. Oh, is that it?

I thought maybe they were going to show Wizard of Oz on the big screen while performing orchestral arrangements of Pink Floyd's, "Dark Side of the Moon."

TlalocW

[duhneece]

3. I attended concerts, classical music & others at Red Rocks

Music (like food) is never better than when it's enjoyed outdoors.

[RainDog]

4. I'd love to hear

the fairies run across the string section during Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream at one of those. It's great to have that experience w/o any herb, as well.

It's an experience of that music you can't have unless you hear it live.

[dickthegrouch]

5. I hope they have some fans blowing the fumes away from the stage

The 'relaxed' tuning and timing that might result from the performers' exposure to those fumes would make the concert completely unbearable to me.

[Scuba]

6. Red Rock doesn't allow pot smoking? Bwahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.