Watch: Cannabis connoisseur paid to smoke pot

Edmonton resident Amanda Bladon is one of eight Canadians, selected out of 25,000 applicants, to be a paid cannabis connoisseur hired to evaluate different strains of cannabis for variety packs.
“I’m kind of in dream job land right now,” Amanda Bladon said Monday, her first day of a yearlong contract as a cannabis connoisseur. “I just thought the opportunity sounded a little bit too good to be true and I’m a bit of a risk-taker so I figured why not throw my name in