The Colorado paper has appointed an editor for all things pot as the drug is set to become legal on January 1. Any questions?

Ricardo Baca answered reader questions today for nearly two hours. Scroll down to read through the highlights

When Colorado's recreational marijuana law goes into effect on January 1, the Denver Post will be ready. Veteran reporter Ricardo Baca, the paper's music and entertainment editor, will take on a new beat: pot. The Post anticipates that the business and culture of marijuana will be Colorado's biggest story this year, and has put Baca at the helm of its coverage. And as Baca explained on the Post this week, he isn't exactly a stranger to Mary Jane:

I’ve covered concerts for a living over the last 15 years. That means hanging out with musicians, working with people in the industry, attending music festivals in Austin and the Coachella valley and New York and LA. So yes. And though I’ve never been a full-on stoner, I’ve shared concerts and conversations and late-night sessions at the bar, and had Twitter wars with thousands of them.

Ricardo Baca will join us today to talk all things pot with Guardian readers during a live Q&A. We asked him a couple of questions to get started, but ask him anything you want to know in the comments and check back at 2pm ET | 7pm GMT to read his responses.

What kinds of marijuana-related stories do you want to tell?

On January 1, 2014, pot will be more legal in Colorado than anywhere else in the world. It's true. The Post already owns this news beat in Colorado, but we want to expand on the very important legislation coming out of the state house and city council. We also want to tell stories from the perspectives of the dispensary owner, the cannabis consumer, the anti-pot activists, the growhouse workers and the suburban group of moms who get together once a week to semi-secretly smoke out in their basements or backyards. We'll also document how Colorado laws vary from those in Washington, Uruguay and the Netherlands. And we'll talk about the best video games of the year to play while under the influence, American TVs trending toward pot-friendliness and lots, lots more.

Some freelancers will write news from those pot hotbeds I mentioned. Others will write criticism, reviewing different strains of weed and all types of edibles. I'm still looking for many of these freelance positions, so if you're an experienced writer with a story to tell, hit me up. Bonus points if you live in any of the aforementioned places.

So how does someone end up a marijuana editor anyway?

So after nine years as the Post's music critic and another two years as the paper's entertainment editor, I was approached about this job last month. There's a bit more to the story, starting with The Underground Music Showcase (UMS), which I co-founded with my buddy. More than 10 years later we found ourselves with 300-plus bands filling out 30 venues over four days in Denver's arty Baker neighborhood. A few years into the festival, I founded the music blog Reverb (heyreverb.com). And with colleagues and mostly volunteer freelancers, we built it into one of the region's most vital music resources. Both The UMS and Reverb are still thriving and my editors said it was partially that ability to create something from scratch that got them thinking about appointing me to the new pot editor position.

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