Ear-ringing Heavy Metal music, 50,000 frenzied fanatics, legalized weed, and a mid-set, lightning storm-induced rain delay. If Jeff Sessions had written a recipe for Self Destruction Pie, these would be his main ingredients. Yet nothing happened. Nothing. A 24-hour Google search of "metallica denver" showed the biggest news coming out of last night's concert was the weather.
I was one of more than 50,000 fans who attended the Metallica concert at Sports Authority Field in Denver last night. This was the latest stop in Metallica's WorldWired tour in support of their "Hardwired to Self Destruct" album. This was the first concert I had attended since Colorado legalized recreational marijuana, and it was clear that thousands of my fellow concert goers were imbibing in this new found freedom. The air was thick, T H I C K, with Mary Jane. So thick, I think we could have floated to our seats. And yet, the crowd was one of the chillest crowds I have ever seen. I had my wife and 13 year old son with me and the only time I was concerned, was on the way back to our seats, when we were following a drunk who couldn't manage to keep his beer in his cup.
There are a lot of myths out there about the dangers of Marijuana. I once had a pair of elderly ladies try to convince me that they knew several people who had died because they smoked weed. Attorney General Jeff Sessions would have you believe that Marijuana is just as bad as Heroin. But the citizens of Colorado know b.s. when they see it, and they voted, correctly, to stop making it a crime to smoke a plant. All this nonsense about "unintended consequences" was put to bed last night in just a few short hours.
It's time to repeal all state and federal marijuana laws.