where I lay curled up in a hallucinatory state for the next eight hours. i call BULLSH!T...
Posted on 06/04/2014 2:49:08 PM PDT by a fool in paradise
Maureen Dowd travelled to Colorado in January, ate a bit too much of a marijuana-laced chocolate bar and proceeded to have a Valley-of-the-Dolls-style meltdown in her hotel room.
Here's how she describes the experience in her Wednesday New York Times column:
"I felt a scary shudder go through my body and brain. I barely made it from the desk to the bed, where I lay curled up in a hallucinatory state for the next eight hours. I was thirsty but couldn't move to get water. Or even turn off the lights. I was panting and paranoid, sure that when the room-service waiter knocked and I didn't answer, he'd call the police and have me arrested for being unable to handle my candy."
"I strained to remember where I was or even what I was wearing, touching my green corduroy jeans and staring at the exposed-brick wall. As my paranoia deepened, I became convinced that I had died and no one was telling me."
Dowd pivots to talk about the dangers of pot overdoses and the "darker side of unleashing a drug as potent as marijuana on a horde of tourists of all ages and tolerance levels seeking a mellow buzz".
She says there are current efforts in the Colorado legislature to regulate the potency and consistency of marijuana products, as well as to ensure that packaging of pot-laced candy and cookies can't be accidentally eaten by children.
Dowd follows in the footsteps of fellow Times columnist David Brooks, who wrote in January about how he used to have fun smoking pot as a teenager, but he grew tired of hanging out with stoners. He then took a position against marijuana legalisation.
Brooks was mercilessly mocked for that column - and Dowd is getting a similar reception...
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Not the first time, I'd wager.
BAZINGA!
"Immensely" is, I think, a bit of an exaggeration. Hash isn't that much more powerful than pot and it has a lovely minty taste to it...ahem...or so I've been told. What we have here, I think, and I alluded to it in a previous post, is people with mental issues that find those issues isolated and amplified in the presence of a mild psychoactive. Don't blame the drug. Just my $0.02, and no, I haven't used the stuff in years.
I might have been wrong about that. Found another reference that says possession of up to 40 grams of hashish is a misdemeanor in WA.
Not to harsh your mellow, there, Mo, but this may be true.
The Dowd / CZJ rule is the best rule in my opinion.
Anyone else think she looks like the evil muzzie hag on “24 Live anoother day””?
I felt a scary shudder go through my body and brain. I barely made it from the desk to the bed, where I lay curled up in a hallucinatory state for the next eight hours. I was thirsty but couldn’t move to get water. Or even turn off the lights. I was panting and paranoid
Would you happen to know anything about this event?
Would anyone tell her if she was?
I agree. But they’re citing decades old DEA propaganda, and you know, the DEA is the one gov’t agency you can trust, apparently.
where I lay curled up in a hallucinatory state for the next eight hours. i call BULLSH!T...
I’m freakin’ out, man!
Ironically (to me at least) the DEA does seem like the least untrustworthy agency these days.
How could an extreme Left Winger like her - with her textbook mindsets of “I’m Left Wing,ergo,I’m smarter and hipper about everything ,and anyone who is Right Wing is a total square,isn’t smart about a single thing” - be so ignorant about pot, even in the form of a chocolate bar?
...wouldn’t it be more similar to hashish?
You are already beyond my knowledge base. ;)
You’re right! It’s her.
I love these Maureen Dowd threads!
I love them for the articles. :^)
LOL! What a n00b.
Eat pot at your own risk, Mary, darling.
Maybe you shoulda researched it first before you put it in your stomach.
She didn’t just put it in her stomach, she put it in her head.
Full NY Times article here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/04/opinion/dowd-dont-harsh-our-mellow-dude.html?ref=opinion&_r=0
“What could go wrong with a bite or two?... For an hour, I felt nothing. I figured I’d order dinner from room service and return to my more mundane drugs of choice, chardonnay and mediocre-movies-on-demand.”
Doesn’t sound like she ate the whole thing in one sitting.
And for what it’s worth, tobacco cannot be flavored (except menthol) or advertised with “cartoon characters” because that becomes tempting for “kids”. Even some alcohol beverages that might appeal to “yutes” are being taken off the market.
Isn’t it a federal crime to cross a state border with the intention of committing a federal crime?
And isn’t Marijuana still a prohibited substance by Federal Law and several treaties?
Just curious.
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