A Toronto man is getting paid $50 an hour to do what he loves: smoke marijuana and rate it.
Kyle Merkley is one of eight people on the 鈥渃annabis curation committee鈥� at Ahlot, which sells 鈥渃urated collections鈥� containing different kinds of weed.
More than 25,000 applied for the job last fall, which Merkley compares to reviewing different wines. It鈥檚 part-time. He still has a day job in music production.
鈥淚t鈥檚 quite fun,鈥� Merkley told CTV News Channel on Monday. 鈥淭his is something I鈥檝e already been doing.鈥�
Merkley said his personal ranking system includes the look, smell, taste, effect and x-factor of a given strain. The x-factor is a rare quality that makes its stand out.
Cannabis can 鈥渆nrich people鈥檚 lives鈥� in different ways, because different strains provide different experiences, according to Merkley said.
鈥淗elping people discover what鈥檚 out there is kind of a personal mission of mine,鈥� he said.
