In a cannabis mood, Mayor Jeff Cooper and Councilwoman Meghan Sahli-Wells sounded convinced Monday evening that nothing possibly can go wrong with the most confusing, complicated project any City Council here ever has confronted:

• Designing the seemingly exhaustive routes by which cannabis retailers will be vetted and
• How neighborhood sites will be sensitively chosen/approved, supposedly hinging on whether nearby residents approve.

Open the case.

Shut the case.

Do not tarry.

Mr. Cooper – unusually hardline — and Ms. Sahli-Wells – not unusually hardline – made it plain from the opening syllable they were not budging from their previously stated positions.

For anyone who missed earlier iterations on Monday, they stated with uncommon vigor that their amazing dedication, insight and heavenward confidence made an airtight case for welcoming marijuana investors and retailers virtually immediately.

Their tone and message never varied.

Ms. Sahli-Wells, especially, scaled heights of supreme certitude far surpassing the norm.

She only halted six inches shy of declaring with irrevocable certitude that the uncommonly hard labor by her and her partner, Mr. Cooper, locked in the Good Housekeeping seal of approval.

She even mentioned that she has two sons, 13 and 15, and by golly she would not advocate for a business that could imperil them.

What could go wrong?

Who is even remotely concerned about bringing into a family-oriented community of 40,000 as acerbic of a product as marijuana?

Then with a seldom-seen lofty level of irrefutable insight and confidence, the Councilperson set about determining, with an air of steel-thick inerrancy, that her pronouncements about the flawlessness of the preparation process must not be challenged.

Whether she was Superman or Wonder Woman, she displayed perhaps unprecedented confidence in her inviolate conclusion.

Icily brushing aside any colleague who dared challenge her pronouncements, her strategy was crowned with success. Her side won, 4-1.