From Chair Meghan Sahli-Wells’s opening words yesterday afternoon, the assignment for the Marijuana Task Force looked more complicated than mending a broken marriage after both spouses have died.

Now that puffing and huffing on recreational marijuana has been legalized by the voter-passage of Prop. 64, Culver City’s challenge is to figure out how to control the many-pronged explosion with hometown regulations.

This may take a few minutes. Or years.

Through no fault of anyone in charge, the first in a series of community meetings resembled trying to herd three-legged blind cats who have an attitude problem.