Last week, a 62-year-old woman visited Colorado, bought some marijuana candy, ate it in her hotel room.
She got way too high as a result, and penned an account of the experience that captivated the nation, or at least the part of the nation that spends too much time giggling on Twitter.
“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,” Maureen Dowd, the New York Times columnist and spiritual descendant of Hunter S. Thompson, wrote on June 3.
“As my paranoia deepened, I became convinced that I had died and no one was telling me.”
The immediate response to Dowd’s bad trip was a shudder of not-undeserved gleeful cackling.
“She largely suffered her fate due to an overdose of stupidity,” wrote VICE’s David Bienenstock, who scoffed at the columnist for apparently not doing any “research regarding a proper dosage of THC for a novice user, the amount of time the drug will take before you begin to feel its effects, or even the overall potency of the product she selected.”
Though Dowd did get warned that THC-infused edibles can really fuck you up if you can’t handle your bud (though probably not in those words), she “was focused more on the fun than the risks,” according to a statement she wrote in response to the post-column brouhaha.
“In that sense, I’m probably like many other people descending on Denver.”
The longtime Times writer may be such a weed neophyte that she doesn’t know how to roll a joint, but she’s not wrong that the new regime in Colorado makes it easy for newbies to overdo it and end up tweaking out.
The emerging legal weed industry in the state is still in an odd, transitional stage, and it can be downright unfriendly to casual tourists like Dowd who want to try this “marijuana” thing everyone seems to be talking about.
For starters, the bud sold in the state is the most powerful weed anyone has ever smoked.
Watch for part II of this installment coming soon...
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