Maureen Dowd’s long, strange trip to Colorado lights up Internet

Market Watch ^ | June 4, 2014 | by Shawn Langlois

[Oldeconomybuyer]

In more cultured circles, Maureen Dowd is known as the Pulitzer Prize–winning author and columnist for the New York Times, who was once named woman of the year by Glamour and is regarded as one of the most influential left-leaning journalists in the country.

On Twitter, she’s just another superparanoid stoner with a keyboard.

Dowd’s half-baked odyssey began when she flew to Denver to immerse herself in some of the local culture. No, not hitting the slopes or visiting the rifle range. She had designs on getting high. You know, for one of her columns.

So she went down to the local pot shop and bought a THC-laced candy bar. She took a nibble, waited, then made a real rookie mistake: “When nothing happened, nibbled some more,” she wrote. Famous last words.

[hinckley buzzard]

She has been treated for bipolar disorder. Maybe she looks happy because she was in a hypomanic phase.

[hinckley buzzard]

Are they pushing marijuana tourism, so you can go smoke marijuana legally somewhere????

You didn't see this coming a mile away?

[miss marmelstein]

I stutter. Thank you Sister Virago!

[archaicoldschool]

Is it me or is Maureen looking more and more like Helen Thomas?

[ottbmare]

She has been treated for bipolar disorder. Maybe she looks happy because she was in a hypomanic phase.

Could be. But bipolar people can also be just honestly happy and fulfilled.

[ConservingFreedom]

Are they pushing marijuana tourism, so you can go smoke marijuana legally somewhere????

Did Dowd have to be "pushed" to go to CO and consume pot?

[seanmerc]

That is one classic picture! I bet it made MoDo’s day.