The year is only a week old and what a week it’s been – sea smoke on the frigid ocean, snowy owls taking over in Holgate, big northeast swell, and icebergs flowing down the Boulevard. I’m waiting for reports of polar bears lurking around Beach Haven West. But we’ll get to all that later. It’s 2014, and here’s the straight “dope.”

As we ushered in the New Year, all the headlines focused on the first day of legalized marijuana sales in Colorado – which was, by default, the first day of…