Wanted: Dead Heads and Pot Heads

The University of California Santa Cruz is looking for a Grateful Dead archivist after the band donated all its memorabilia to its library.

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Grateful Dead Archivist Wanted

The successful applicant will be "creative and service oriented" and have a master's degree in library science -- and can additionally handle all the band's posters, vinyl albums, CDs, videos, cassette tapes of hot line messages announcing tour dates, thousands of decorated envelopes mailed to the band's ticket office, even guest lists from all their shows.

Bunting admits the job, working with both scholars and fans, is "pretty dreamy and unusual."

The less academic candidate might be interested in the job of pot dispensary reviewer currently posted by Denver's Westward newspaper on its blog.

"The job is simple," it states. "Visit a different dispensary each week (without revealing you're working for Westword) and pen concise, impartial and snappy accounts of your experiences.

"Keep in mind this isn't about assessing the quality of the medicine on site; it's about evaluating the quality of the establishment. After all, we can't have our reviewer be stoned all the time."

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Users are required to hold a state-issued Medical Marijuana Registry identification card, asserting that they require the drug to alleviate a medical problem.

Within five minutes of the posting, Westword was flooded with replies, and now has nearly 1,000.

"This has swamped us," said Westword editor Patricia Calhoun, who will likely meet with the finalist this week. "I had to come in and spend eight hours clearing out my e-mails,"

Their applicants come from "all over the map, young and old," according to Calhoun. One was a 71-year-old with a doctorate from Harvard University.

Calhoun found the alternative newspaper in 1977, "back when people were thinking something else, when they were singing 'Rocky Mountain High,'" she told ABCNews.com.

Until now, a news reporter has been covering the industry under the pseudonym Mae Coleman, after a character in the 1936 drug-scare film "Reefer Madness."

But according to Calhoun, "He doesn't even like pot."

The latest hire will write the new column, "Mile Highs and Lows."